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GET IN HERE, SMACKLADS 2017-05-02 08:52:37 Post No. 2609995
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Raw numbers hit a shocking low last night, even coming the day after the Payback PPV.
The three hour show averaged 2.86 million viewers, setting a new 20-year low for the show on a non-holiday and non-football time frame. The number barely beat what a lot of the SmackDown shows had been doing prior to WrestleMania. It was a five percent decline from last week's 3.00 million viewers. Traditionally the Raw after a Raw-brand PPV should show an increase.
Worse, not coming off a PPV and with next week's show being taped, another number in this vicinity is possible. There will only be one NBA game next Monday, Warriors vs. Jazz, so the first hour of Raw will go unopposed and that may help a little.
The culprit was the NBA playoffs, as the first half of Raw went against a Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Toronto Raptors game that did 3.58 million viewers, and the second half of Raw went against a San Antonio Spurs vs. Houston Rockets game that did 4.43 million viewers.
Raw numbers are likely to be low as long as there is playoff competition. However, with the decline of Fox News ratings in the wake of Bill O'Reilly being gone, Raw beat everything else on cable last night.
The three hours were:
8 p.m. 2.92 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.04 million viewers
10 p.m. 2.65 million viewers
http://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/raw-ratings-hit-shocking-low-234781?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Also, Divas shit doesn't draw confirmed.
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>raw beat everything else on cable
So this means it was actually a huge success. Symptom of the cable industry dying.
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>>2610000
Having more entertainment options (with more released every day) has cut into television ratings as well.
As long as they beat most other cable shows they're fine. But headlines like that generate clicks so that's what they go with.
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how do they actually count how many people watch
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>>2610444
Nielson Ratings
look it up
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smacklad here
AMA
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>women's wrestling
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>>2610444
You get a Nielsen box or a diary, though the diaries are being phased out by 2018. Most are randomly chosen but you can apply and might be selected for one.
With the box, it hooks up to your cable/satellite/whatever and the internet, and sends data to Nielsen on what you're watching. When you watch tv, you have to sign in so that Nielsen knows if it's a 40 year old man or his 13 year old daughter watching a show. Then using the remote you tell it how many people are watching it with you (up to 8 guests). Every 15-20 minutes the light on the box blinks, prompting you to click your remote to turn it off and prove you're still watching and didn't fall asleep or wander off. Then every once in awhile a guy will come around or call you asking you various questions like if you bought a new car or got a new job. They need to know all your statistics to better sell their ads. With the diary you just fill it out and send it back to them once a month. Much easier to lie that way.
They then take whatever percentage say they watched Raw and determine how many people nationwide most likely watched it. It's a large enough sample size to give them a good idea of what type of people are watching what shows.
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>>2612914
Oh, and they give you $15 a month for this. Maybe they upped it, I don't know.
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