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RAW:
Hr 1 - 1.96 Hr 2 - 1.86 Hr 3 - 1.69 Avg - 1.84 million (credit - showbuzzdaily) Most Watched on YT: Seth/AOP attack Rey/Samoa Joe - 1.1 million Rusev vs No Way Jose - 858k R-Truth/Tozawa/Santa Claus - 411k https://i.postimg.cc/zBt0s9L4/ratings.png |
Not surprised since they faced a triple whammy of very tough sports competition, being on near Christmas, and last week's show being very bad overall.
Also Love & Hip Hop being back for the past few weeks has hurt RAW's rankings. NXT probably going to suffer in ratings as well tomorrow since its facing off against NBA's most hyped up Christmas game of the night. |
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Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage ended up doing 153k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.5 in the key demo.
For some comparisons, last week's episode did 95k viewers but did not rank in Showbuzz's Top 150 shows. |
NXT's Christmas episode ended up doing 831,000 viewers, #29 ranking, and a 0.22 in the key demo.
Viewership went up compared to last week but the other two were down. |
SD
Hr 1 - 2.54 Hr 2 - 2.34 Avg - 2.44 credit - showbuzzdaily http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/wp-cont...Dec-27-FRI.png |
AEW should try starting a ratings war with Main Event. It's more their level.
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RAW:
Hr 1 - 2.53 Hr 2 - 2.47 Hr 3 - 2.33 Avg - 2.44 million (credit - showbuzzdaily) Most Watched on YT: Liv Morgan returns - 2.1 million Orton/AJ - 1.4 million KO/Joe battle Seth/AOP - 684k |
RAW rebounding from the Christmas week low was expected but also being up compared to 2 weeks ago is the real improvement.
Also helped that the competition was very weak since nothing outside of sports hit over 2 million for viewers or were a real threat in the key demo stuff for the Top 10. |
That's a fucking surprising number for Raw.
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I wonder if it was aided by the fact that aside from NFL Sunday, networks put fuck all on TV during the week between Christmas and New Year.
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Probably, but you can also imagine people just fucking around on their phones. But that doesn't hurt.
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Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage ended up doing 97k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.3 in the key demo.
For some comparisons, last week's episode did 153k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.5 in the key demo. |
Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:
AEW got 967k viewers, #13 ranking, and a 0.36 in the key demo ranking. NXT got 548k viewers, #66 ranking, and a 0.15 in the key demo ranking. Considering the monster numbers from the college bowl games and ESPN's college football shows, AEW getting almost 1 million is pretty good. Same for NXT getting over 500k for a mostly throw-away show. Also AEW and NXT got really lucky the Rose Bowl wasn't the night game since that one was over 5 million higher than the Sugar Bowl (15.6 vs. 9.9 million). |
This was probably AEW's best chance for a knockout. I wouldn't say they quite got there, but it's far from a bad number by any stretch. But it might be their best for quite a while.
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SD has a lower viewership than RAW
Hr 1 - 2.47 Hr 2 - 2.37 Avg - 2.42 million SD struggled in the demos as well this week, not as many categories in green. https://i.postimg.cc/VkHsCCfg/Fast-D...Jan-03-FRI.png |
Lana and Rusev > Roman Reigns
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Abysmal YT optics for SD next day, usually a segment or two is at 1 or 2 million by now
Sheamus Returns - 706k Usos save Roman - 415k John Morrison appears - 361k |
Fiend attacking Dbry only at 281k
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Smackdown getting hammered in the key demos was very bad since FOX needs those numbers to be very high in order to come close to breaking even with ad costs.
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Paul Heyman earning that Vince McMahon trust.
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I mean, circumstances and Vince involvement aside, the only time the "B" show has beaten the "A" show has been when Heyman has had the book. I'm not watching Raw and it's not a sustained run yet, but Heyman did the same thing with SmackDown when he had the book way back in 2002/2003.
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YT views are shockingly low for the day after RAW (especially Brock, whose usually at or above 2 million views by now):
Big Show returns - 840k 6-man tag - 812k Lana/Lashley/Rusev - 604k Brock in the Rumble - 470k I can't recall the last time at least one vid had not hit a million views by now |
RAW ended up being down compared to last week but not by much. Also didn't take advantage of the lack of major sports competition last night but did beat their blood rival Love & Hip Hop.
8PM - 2.55 million 9PM - 2.40 million 10PM - 2.19 million Overall - 2.39 million Next week RAW likely is going to get hammered badly since its going up against the College Football title game. |
Big drop from hour 1 to hour 3!
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Say what you want about the quality of WWE, those numbers are pretty impressive for today's day and age. A 2.39 is several time the size of the AEW audience. Heyman is doing the job he was put there to do.
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Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage ended up doing 124k viewers, #145 ranking, and a 0.4 in the key demo.
Last week's episode did 97k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.3 in the key demo. Despite having a better demo number than last week, the competition ended up being stronger this week in the 0.6-0.4 range for why they dropped hard in the rankings. |
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Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:
AEW got 947k viewers, #6 ranking, and a 0.36 in the key demo ranking. NXT got 712k viewers, #55 ranking, and a 0.19 in the key demo ranking. NXT got a sizeable viewership bump but wouldn't be surprised if the drop in rankings in recent weeks is due to them dropping the ball during the holidays in terms of maintaining momentum and potential burnout starting to show in terms of audience interest for non-TakeOver quality shows since NXT went too hard in that direction and countless title matches for early shows. All the gains NXT made in recent weeks with the key demo group pretty much are gone and AEW starting to regain their big advantage in that group. |
That's crazy
A good number of viewers for both shows, but damn @ NXT demographic tanking, that actually surprises me. |
Outside of a few weeks since the Wednesday Night War stared, NXT pretty much has been carried heavily by WWE's older tv audience which completely goes against Triple H's claims about the brand and the idea of NXT helping build WWE's future audience.
Even NXT's turn around in fortunes in terms of competitiveness was more due to WWE having to give it main show and roster exposure and not because of the brand's own doing. Also the idea of DVR hurting AEW way more in terms of younger viewers based on Meltzer's and others data. NXT probably will top AEW again once the Rumble nears because of the rumors of their involvement with the event but that would just prove once again that NXT needs WWE's main shows for major ratings boosts and interest. |
Haven’t been paying much attention but I remember NXT finally winning the ratings war and people seemed to think the shine had worn off and AEW had officially fallen behind for good. What happened to change that?
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That's a pretty decent number for them.
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Most Watched on YT:
Roman/Usos promo - 631k Morrison on Miz TV - 549k Usos vs. Corbin/Ziggler - 375k |
Ratings for the last week:
SD - 2.51 RAW - 2.39 AEW - 947k NXT - 712k Backstage - 124k |
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And then the cycle will repeat for every major WWE show with likely exceptions here and there during the year. NXT has the same exact problem as RAW and Smackdown in regards to the viewership being propped up way too much by WWE's older core audience. Until that drastically changes, NXT is going to struggle to maintain any long term momentum against AEW. Meanwhile AEW's biggest problem right now is their audience is still too volatile and swings too much in either direction almost on a weekly basis. That's due to their younger audience not really settling in yet unlike NXT. |
Lol, NXT will turn this around in a few weeks. Good booking and consistency will get them there. They've lost their momentum because they took the time off and did some lazy stuff around Christmas, so people are checking out AEW. NXT had them knocked about like crazy every week except one after they got the main roster rub.
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RAW got hammered badly by the College football title game between Clemson and LSU.
Down by around 355k viewers compared to last week, down by around .13 in terms of the key demo (0.74 to 0.61), and down big in terms of rankings from #1-3 to #9, #10, and #13 this week. 8PM - 2,218,000 9PM - 2,059,000 10PM - 1,814,000 Average - 2,030,000 |
Nothing on YT has cracked a million views, AGAIN, the following day.█
This is a curious trend. Most watched (so far): Brock/R-Truth - 919k Show/KO/Joe vs Seth/AOP - 808k Orton vs Drew vs AJ - 436k |
Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage didn't rank in the Top 150 shows according to Showbuzz Daily.
Means the show did less than a 0.4 in the key demo and potentially less than 100k viewers. Last week's episode did 124k viewers, #145 ranking, and a 0.4 in the key demo. |
Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:
AEW got 940k viewers, #5 ranking, and a 0.38 in the key demo ranking. NXT got 700k viewers, #31 ranking, and a 0.21 in the key demo ranking. Seems AEW's audience might be starting to settle in since that's the 3rd week in a row its been in the upper 900k and NXT finally managed to get their key demo rating back to the 0.20s since the Christmas week episode. |
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SD:
Hr 1 - 2.62 Hr 2 - 2.54 Avg - 2.58 million Most Watched on YT: DBry/Kane/Fiend - 762k Otis/Mandy - 564 Big E/Morrison - 524k Roman/Roode - 420k https://i.postimg.cc/MGL1hW02/Fast-D...Jan-17-FRI.png |
CBS Reruns got better ratings than ABC and NBC airing new stuff.
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Say what you want about the quality of WWE, but those ratings are...well, not great, but at that acceptable level.
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As long as the SD demo stays in that green color-coded area consistently I think FOX will be fine w/ things honestly.
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Pretty much that and staying within the 2.5 million range for viewers since that was FOX's minimum to stay happy with the crazy amount of money they spent on SD.
FOX likely is going to lose a ton of money from this tv deal due to SD not constantly being in the 1.0 range for the key demo nor in the 3-4 million range for viewers but they gave up on those lofty goals just a couple of weeks into the new deal. |
Fox was airing reruns for the most part on Fridays anyways. We will see if the Road to WrestleMania bumps the ratings a little bit. Fox starting at WWE's weaker story period could have played a role in that.
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Ratings will be out Wed due to MLK day
YT optics still down and under a million for everything the day after....again...a very odd trend for WWE Most Watched on YT: Liv/Rusev vs Lana/Lashley - 825k Seth welcomes Buddy - 550k Brock attacks Ricochet - 420k |
I'm wondering if their videos just aren't being featured or displayed as much for some reason. I've noticed a lot less visibility from them on both facebook and YT. There has to be some other factor, the drop was way too big and too fast.
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Probably people starting to realize why bother watching or getting quickly caught up with what happened on RAW. Also Smackdown arguably did a better job with the Rumble build than RAW despite personally not being that interested in their matches for the show.
Like the Lana/Rusev storyline was only very popular online due to the train wreck quality of the storyline and not something that was actually well written or would entice people to stick around for the long term. Same for RAW's other big storylines lacking that hook to keep people interested after a while. |
It'll be interesting to see if NXT is able to take advantage of AEW being partially taped this week
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Isn't there a big nba debut this week that could hurt both on wednesday, some new player super hyped by b-ball media?
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In terms of live viewers, ESPN's NBA pre-show might do some damage but only the last 30 minutes of NXT and Dynamite are going head-to-head with the Spurs vs. Pelicans game. NXT's over-run might also suffer but that usually skews a lot more towards older viewers.
AEW and NXT's tape delay on the West Coast likely are going to get hit hard though. Those airings are going up against the bulk of the Pelicans game and any post-show stuff. |
RAW
Hr 1 - 2.55 Hr 2 - 2.49 Hr 3 - 2.10 Avg - 2.38 credit - showbuzzdaily |
Those are damn near the same numbers as a couple weeks ago.
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Considering the Rumble go-home show is usually one of the higher viewed shows in the year, not a good sign for this year's Road to Mania if it still couldn't get back a good chunk of viewers lost from this past football season.
On the bright side, it managed to beat out both the Cs-Lakers game and its never explained blood rival Love & Hip Hop in terms of rankings. The Cs-Lakers game turning into a blowout also likely helped RAW out a lot. |
Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage with Punk's return did 111k viewers, #141 ranking, and a 0.6 in the key demo.
Last week's episode wasn't ranked but it did 84k viewers and a 0.3 in the key demo. |
I bet my headline drove tons of traffic to the site
You're welcome Triple A |
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Most Watched on YT:
Fiend/DBry contract signing - 636k Kofi vs Morrison - 294k Braun/Elias vs Shinsuke/Cesaro - 248k |
Seems to me everyone in the WWE universe goes to bed at 10pm
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RAW's post-PPV bump (22k) ended up being one of the smallest in years for a post-Rumble show and post-major WWE event.
In terms of the good stuff, RAW took the top 3 spots for rankings and the last two hours were higher than last week's show. In terms of the bad stuff, this year's post-Rumble show was around 300k lower than last year's show and the first hour was slightly lower than last week. Also had a lower key demo rating than last week. 8PM - 2,541,000 9PM - 2,441,000 10PM - 2,224,000 Overall - 2,402,000 |
Viewers for the post-Royal Rumble Raw for the past 10 years...
2011: 5.28 million 2012: 5.22 million 2013: 5.02 million 2014: 4.71 million 2015: 4.42 million 2016: 4.10 million 2017: 3.62 million 2018: 3.40 million 2019: 2.71 million 2020: 2.40 million |
Assuming it has a similar drop next year, within 5 years RAW would have halved their audience and its all due to how badly WWE botched the transition from the Cena era to the Reigns era and handling of NXT call-ups.
For some reference, within the same time period NFL managed to stay relatively even to where it was five years ago despite the growing trend with cord cutters. Similar to WWE, NFL also had a period where they had the view of nobody could be bigger than "The Shield" or brand but then stopped that mentality once it started to really hurt the ratings. |
Most Watched on YT:
Orton attacks Edge - 2 million Drew chooses Brock - 775k Lana vs Liv - 505k |
That’s a fine number for where they’re at. I don’t think anyone really expected them to them to get over 3 million or anything.
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Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage did 97k viewers, #137 ranking, and a 0.4 in the key demo.
Last week's episode did 11k viewers, #141 ranking, and a 0.6 in the key demo. |
Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:
AEW got 828k viewers, #3 ranking, and a 0.34 in the key demo ranking. NXT got 712k viewers, #37 ranking, and a 0.22 in the key demo ranking. AEW won every demographic except the 50+. Old people down by a sizeable amount pretty much was the reason for AEW's drop this week while NXT suffered from young women being down by a lot. |
I predicted NXT would be a lot closer than they were, but it was a pretty cold show.
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SD 2.42
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RAW tumbled this week
Hr 1 - 2.32 Hr 2 - 2.16 Hr 3 - 2.02 Avg - 2.16 million Most Watched On YT: Brock attacks Ricochet - 826k Orton promo - 526k Rey saves Humberto - 498k YT views seem 'low' again for next day....maybe people overseas are not clicking as much, IDK |
Pretty terrible for a Road to Mania number especially since there was no major sports competition. Only real competition was the Iowa Caucus election stuff but that did poorly in the demos except for old people compared to RAW.
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Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage did 97k viewers, #145 ranking, and a 0.5 in the key demo.
Last week's episode did 97k viewers, #137 ranking, and a 0.4 in the key demo. |
Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:
AEW got 928k viewers, #11 ranking, and a 0.36 in the key demo ranking. NXT got 770k viewers, #34 ranking, and a 0.22 in the key demo ranking. AEW won every demographic except the 50+. Basically Charlotte provided a 58k boost to NXT but she barely moved the needle for key demos especially with women. AEW's gains was mainly due to the rebound from their older demo group but took a notable hit with their rankings mainly due to the Impeachment stuff. |
Goldberg = Ratings
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Dynasty pulling in those big numbers
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SD had higher ratings both hours than Raw the last two weeks
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Hr 2 - 2.40 Hr 3 - 2.20 Avg - 2.33 million credit - showbuzzdaily Most Watched on YT: Orton attacks Matt Hardy - 686k Drew/MVP - 599k Shayna bites Becky - 458k https://i.postimg.cc/xCwL4LH5/Screen...3-30-57-PM.png |
First time in a long while RAW's 2nd hour was bigger than the 1st hour.
According to Meltzer, peak viewership happened during the Angel Garza match meaning WWE's gamble on pushing him as their new top Latino star might be working now. |
Angel Garza seems like a much better choice than Humberto Carrillo.
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Only problem is WWE has done this song and dance plenty of times before when it comes to finding the next Rey Mysterio for the company.
Wouldn't be surprised if they eventually change their mind and go with whichever big name Latino star they end up signing next. They also have El Hijo del Fantasma (King Cuerno in LU) stashed away in the PC and supposedly he's returning soon from injury. |
Angel Garza's a good looking guy and seems to instantly connect. Andrade is in the same boat, but he's a heel and he's got the hot chick. I kind of hope that is the WrestleMania US Title match.
But you're never going to get your next Rey Mysterio. You've got Rey Mysterio. Just be content with that and bring along the guys with talent as best you can. |
Did Del Rio ever mean anything to ratings or the like? He was also presented as a heel out the gate, but he had face runs that I don't remember meaning anything to the figures.
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Not sure since by the time he arrived, Smackdown wasn't on UPN anymore. That channel played a big role in Eddie Guerrero's rise as a big star and Rey Myetsrio cementing himself as WWE's top Hispanic star.
Also WWE pretty much botched his big face run so he wasn't going to succeed as a ratings draw even had it lasted longer than it did. Even if it wasn't botched, he'd still run into the big problem of Vince cutting the legs out of anyone who was getting too close to star status to Cena. |
Eddie and Rey were two stars who happened to be Latino. Everyone else WWE has tried has been pushed as a Latino star. It comes off as forced and hokey.
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It surprises me that Raw is the platform they're choosing to try and get these Hispanic guys over.
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I remember during the whole original brand split there was an enormous push to always have a Hispanic star on SmackDown because the TV deals in Mexico were much better for SmackDown instead of Raw.
Now they've got FOX Deportes airing the show for Spanish viewers but the only representation is Lucha House Party who are seldom used. It's odd. |
“Angel Garza” sounds SO much like a mid 90s WCW cruiserweight.
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My brain keeps defaulting to Hector Garza.
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AEW 817k
NXT 757k AEW really deserves to do better than this, they've been putting on killer shows since 2020 started. |
Based on the demo stuff, AEW biggest drop was where it mattered the most while NXT's biggest drop was with older viewers but didn't wreck their numbers as much.
Also NXT had a pretty sizable boost from female viewers this week compared to last week when the opposite probably should have happened because of Charlotte's appearance. |
I'm a bit surprised to see AEW fluctuate between the 800 and 900s so often.
They've really been on a roll this year. |
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That seems to be their core range now while NXT has been hovering around the 700ks for the majority of the past 3 months. |
Until they decide to boost it with major name talent again. They haven't run that horse thin yet.
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