Peyton Manning’s first Monday Night Football game as a Denver Bronco helped the sports broadcast dominate the cable ratings, leaving shows like WWE’s “Monday Night RAW” in the dust.
Even with the “controversy” from Night of Champions pushed as reason to tune in, RAW only generated a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating and 4.05 million viewers Monday.
Though the rating and viewership were technically down only slightly from last week’s showing, any drop is disappointing for a post-PPV edition of RAW.
The show’s viewership trajectory was also disappointing; in addition to attracting its weakest viewership in the once-marquee 10PM hour, this week’s episode did not even benefit from the strong 9PM that has become par for the three-hour RAW course.
After opening at 4.11 million for the 8PM hour, viewership only rose to 4.12 million at 9PM and then fell to a paltry 3.9 million at 10PM.
In a departure from last week’s show, which did not click with the adults 18-49 demographic until after the first hour, this week’s show scored a 1.4 for the 8PM hour and then only rose to a 1.5 for the latter two.
