Ratings for Monday’s WWE RAW predictably fell this week, but given the weak showings all over television Monday and strong competition from the NBA Playoffs, things could have been worse.<\/p>\n
Up against NBA Playoff games that scored a 3.4 adults 18-49 rating and 7.82 million viewers from 7-9:56PM and a 2.6 with 5.59 million from 9:56PM to 1:43AM, RAW posted a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating and a 3.2 cable coverage rating. Viewership came in at 4.81 million for the first hour and 5.07 million for the latter 65 minutes, according to Travis Yanan Watches TV.<\/p>\n
By comparison, last week’s game from 8-10:51PM, which covered most of RAW and Tough Enough, only averaged a 2.3 rating with 5.59 million viewers.<\/p>\n
Already expected to decline from last week’s show, which featured the heavily-hyped (albeit underperforming) Rock birthday celebration, the fact that RAW viewership did not totally crash against hefty basketball competition is positive. Though basketball competition apparently eased from 10-11PM, the fact that the show got back into the trend of improving from hour one to hour two is also a good sign.<\/p>\n
“Tough Enough,” which led into RAW, averaged a 0.9 demo rating (1.6 cable coverage rating) and 2.47 million viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n