{"id":5113,"date":"2010-02-15T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:33:17","slug":"wwe-says-raw-targets-a-different-audience-than-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/02\/15\/wwe-says-raw-targets-a-different-audience-than-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Says RAW Targets a Different Audience Than iMPACT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an addition to downplaying the company&#8217;s reaction to TNA iMPACT!&#8217;s impending move to Mondays by noting that RAW is in &#8220;good shape,&#8221; WWE spokesperson (presumably Robert Zimmerman) also said that RAW and iMPACT! reach a &#8220;somewhat different audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s somewhat of a different audience,&#8221; the spokesperson said, according to THR. &#8220;On Monday nights we&#8217;re one of the top cable shows. We&#8217;re focusing on our new show for Syfy, &#8220;NXT,&#8221; and &#8216;Wrestlemania XXIV.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comment apparently refers to the fact that iMPACT! is a TV-14 show while WWE RAW is PG, an irrelevant point given the fact that both shows have a median viewership age in excess of 35.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, some truth to the WWE spokesperson&#8217;s comments&#8211;in comparing channel-switching between the January 4 RAW and iMPACT! and the January 11 RAW and UFC Fight Night, a case could be made that the latter two were more clearly fighting for the same audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=hulk hogan&#038;iid=7126513\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/4\/5\/7\/1\/Hulk_Hogans_Hulkamania_9f13.jpg?adImageId=10331390&#038;imageId=7126513\" width=\"380\" height=\"416\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Hulk Hogan&apos;s Hulkamania Tour Hits Perth\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WWE Says RAW Targets a Different Audience Than iMPACT!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an addition to downplaying the company&#039;s reaction to TNA iMPACT!&#039;s impending move to Mondays by noting that RAW is in &quot;good shape,&quot; 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