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Originally Posted by Wishbone
You know it's pretty funny that people are trying to claim that the low ratings Monday were because of the show and not because of the Playoffs. People really need to learn that wresting < basically everything else on mainstream television in the mainstream public's eyes. Any time there's something bigger on RAW will do bad, period.
Also, it's funny that Russo and others are bringing up Zayn and Ambrose when the main event was Orton vs Reigns, two guys that are considered to be the epitome of what WWE's "casual" audience wants.
I'm not trying to defend the internet darlings or anything, nor am I saying Zayn and Ambrose are going to be the next big things, but how can people seriously act like they had any real impact on the ratings at all?
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People also falsely conflate "bad rating" equaling "this show sucked." They're not entirely unrelated, but really, if the rating was shit from start to finish, it's more the damage of the previous week's show. You blame it on the show itself if the ratings just keep falling hour by hour, like this:
I know I didn't need a GIF to illustrate that, but god damn it I wanted to post that one.
The hourly breakdown for last week:
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Hour one: 3.42 million
Hour two: 3.71 million
Hour three: 3.59 million
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That's a pretty good sign that the show was good. It retained and grew for the most part, dropping off a bit at the end.
The last few weeks have been very meh. It's been pretty much downhill since Lesnar killed Michael Cole.
If the rating is even lower next week, depending on NBA Playoff competition, then maybe Vince Russo can keep crowing about SAMI ZAYN KILLED RAW BECAUSE HE'S JUST A RASSLER or whatever.
People look at the ratings in isolation way too much. Sure, yes, this is the lowest non-holiday non-football whatever episode in like eighteen years, so there is a general downward trend compared to similar competition over the past several years;
but, that doesn't happen because of one show--or even ten shows, really. It's a continued lack of "must see" things that really gets exposed when there's some kind of event in contrast. More people probably bailed for the NBA Playoffs this year than previous years because over those previous years they've been taught that they can miss a Raw because what ever happens that matters or is entertaining?
People crying the sky is falling and Sami Zayn killed the Raw rating and so on are just fucking stupid. The sky
has been falling. They're just noticing the chunk that landed in front of them this time. There's a problem, but last week's show isn't the problem.