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The Ratings Thread - a lot of people watched wrestling on Super Tuesday, sort of

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Raw 1.387M/.36. Pre-empted to SyFy, so it achieves record low in total viewers
 
I'm okay with the rating but any 'up against the Olympics narrative may be misguided. Lowest ratings in 14 years or something, most network shows are repeats other than game shows, I would view it as having less competition than a normal week. It might be 11 million across all networks airing the Olympics. I would guess regular tv show viewership is higher than that.

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AEW ranked #1 among cable originals, ahead of both NBA games on ESPN (0.39, 0.32), Olympics on USA (0.32), and South Park on Comedy Central (0.32), according to Showbuzz Daily.
 
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yahhockey said:
I'm okay with the rating but any 'up against the Olympics narrative may be misguided. Lowest ratings in 14 years or something, most network shows are repeats other than game shows, I would view it as having less competition than a normal week. It might be 11 million across all networks airing the Olympics. I would guess regular tv show viewership is higher than that.

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AEW ranked #1 among cable originals, ahead of both NBA games on ESPN (0.39, 0.32), Olympics on USA (0.32), and South Park on Comedy Central (0.32), according to Showbuzz Daily.
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Beating the NBA, South Park and the Olympics (on cable) is a huge deal.

They did advertise in a way to draw a rating. The show did deliver. Let's see if the ratings hold next week.
 
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Beating the NBA, South Park and the Olympics (on cable) is a huge deal.

They did advertise in a way to draw a rating. The show did deliver. Let's see if the ratings hold next week.
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The surprise was a big push. They also had a world title match advertised, but even at that, I don’t know why Hangman and Archer even in a deathmatch would draw more interest than Punk and MJF in Chicago.

They also did something that I don’t know they’ve ever done, which is set up something for later in the show. The eye-raiser from last week was that they usually get a bump when they promote CM Punk for literally anything. I wonder how many people were more interested in seeing Punk (and/or MJF) talk rather than wrestle. Or if people didn’t think they’d do the match.
 
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Smackdown. 2.231m/.56

Rampage 549k/.19. Lowest demo since New Year’s Eve, which is only slightly down from last week.
 
Raw 1.6m/.44 for SyFy. More people figured out where to go
 
Dynamite 869k/.31. Both lowest since December.

Start seems weaker than usual and then went down.
 
Raw 1.825m/.51. Return to USA, post-PPV, title change. Cody Rhodes curiosity? Highest since October 4.
 
Dynamite 1.01M/.40. Big rebound from the Olympics, maybe not much effect of news coverage
 
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