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WWE Raw Ratings: Viewership Hits Record Low
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IrishNinja
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this is a work
Into the Light
Banned
Fans are finally catching on to just how bad the product is right now.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
3 hours is a big commitment to watch anything. It's bad week after week.
Not surprised.
Not surprised.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Well deserved. WWE has been total shit for awhile now and there really is no improvement in site until Vince retires.
Zombie James
Banned
The wrestling sucks.
The commentary sucks.
Fix those things, please.
The commentary sucks.
Fix those things, please.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
The people who work at nielsen are a bunch of marks
It'll be five years this July!
SpideySenses
Member
Great to have the WWE OT back.
Into the Light
Banned
10 years ago 20 years ago, we would have watched it anyways. Now we are smarter, and have better things to do than to watch a useless and I mean useless 3 hours of boredom.
I haven't watched Raw (or Smackdown) since Raw after Mania. They've done an amazing job of killing mainstream interest in the product.
I gave up watching live, I dvr it and struggle to ever watch before the next one comes on again.
Team Alucard
Banned
Do Raw ratings matter anymore given how much of their revenue comes from online network subscriptions?
Did someone say Nitro?!
VeryGooster
Banned
*Raw ratings for July 2019 has 0 viewers*
"Raw ratings hit new low with -1.2 million viewers: even thewrestlers SUPERSTARS don't show up"
"Raw ratings hit new low with -1.2 million viewers: even the
When is our Nitro Party, Zach?!
I'd argue that the wrestling is pretty good to great most of the time, but the commentary sucks the life out of it, and almost everything that is not wrestling is terrible.
Violence Jack
Member
I really tried watching some of it last night, and it was awful.
Has Lesnar even appeared on Raw with the belt since WM (not counting the night after WM)? Awfully dumb to not have your champion be a full-time guy at this point.
Has Lesnar even appeared on Raw with the belt since WM (not counting the night after WM)? Awfully dumb to not have your champion be a full-time guy at this point.
I don't think the wrestling sucks at all when they want (their matches are very much overly booked and produced) those guys go out there and have great matches. The triple threat last week was great. The problem for me generally is it's too long a show, and a lot of it is just bad tv. They want to be a "movie" but they aren't a good movie. They need to go back to being a good pro wrestling show and move away from being a bad variety show. Also 2 hours would be swell.
Hey that looks like Roman!
Into the Light
Banned
truthfully, I thought they would be sub 2.0 by now. I was wrong.
They're losing millions a lot quicker than most tv shows. At this point in 2012 they would usually have 3-4 million viewers.
I still watch Smackdown but it's been worse after Mania.
And yeah, coming out of Mania the storylines they showed were just a big meh to me.
The 3 hours kills any chance of me watching it too.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
He's just not a draw.
Rating should be around a 1.86 according to my calculations. If accurate, that would be worse than last year's 4th of July Raw AND Christmas Raw.
WWE ratings decline is WAY more steep than the general TV decline.
They also try to sell themselves to TV networks as "live sports" programming (in order to get a better TV deal) and other live sports are actually UP.
WWE ratings decline is WAY more steep than the general TV decline.
They also try to sell themselves to TV networks as "live sports" programming (in order to get a better TV deal) and other live sports are actually UP.
http://corporate.wwe.com/~/media/Files/W/WWE/press-releases/2017/Q1-2017-Earnings-Release-FINAL.pdf
$64 of their $188M in revenue last quarter came from their TV contracts
Those contracts are up in 2018.
paperboywriter
Member
people waking up to the fact that wrestling is garbage. about time
Keyser Soze
Member
The funny part is that WWE have an escalation in thier contact for 2017 and 2018 with USA, so they will be paied even more money even if this contimues for two more years.
The contract renewl in 2019 will be fun though.
The contract renewl in 2019 will be fun though.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Last week, Dolph Ziggler cut a promo on Nakamura comparing him to Michael Jackson and called him a freak.
Into the Light
Banned
We have a thread about this every few weeks, don't we?
There's your asterisk. All of TV in the shitter right now. Last year's UK Raw was bad too, if I remember correctly.
It doesn't excuse WWE thinking that Bray Wyatt's toothless Hot Topic ass and lazy Dean "Trailer Park John McClane" Ambrose can be a draw for the show.
There's your asterisk. All of TV in the shitter right now. Last year's UK Raw was bad too, if I remember correctly.
It doesn't excuse WWE thinking that Bray Wyatt's toothless Hot Topic ass and lazy Dean "Trailer Park John McClane" Ambrose can be a draw for the show.
I'm still in denial.
funkystudent
Member
I have been watching RAW exclusively though youtube clips since late last year.
Also even with that small less than 15 minute per week commitment I havent bothered the last 2 weeks.
Also even with that small less than 15 minute per week commitment I havent bothered the last 2 weeks.