Monday’s WWE Backlash go-home edition of RAW, featuring the final red brand build for Sunday’s pay-per-view with RAW Women’s Champion Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair in the non-title main event, drew an average of 1.737 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Showbuzz Daily.
This is up from last week’s 1.728 million viewers, which was the second-lowest viewership in history, going back to the May 4 episode, which drew 1.686 million viewers.
For this week’s show, the first hour drew 1.827 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 1.810 million), the second hour drew 1.790 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 1.8103 million) and the final hour drew 1.595 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 1.571 million).
This is the fourth-lowest RAW viewership in show history. The first hour viewership was the best since the May 11 episode where Becky Lynch announced her pregnancy, but it fell 13% from hour one to hour three.
RAW was #17 for the night in viewership on cable, behind Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, The Ingraham Angle, The Five, 90 Day Fiance: Tell All, The Story, Special Report, Rachel Maddow Show, Home Town, 90 Day Fiance: Other Way, Outnumbered, Last Word, FOX News at Night at 11pm, Cuomo Prime Time, America’s Newsroom at 9am, and CNN Tonight at 10pm. WWE ranked #3 for the night on the Cable Top 150 with an average 18-49 demographic rating of 0.53, tied with Below Deck. 90 Day Fiance: Tell All topped the night on the Cable Top 150 with a 1.03 rating in the 18.49 demographic, drawing 3.359 million viewers. Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News topped the night on cable in viewership with 4.107 million viewers, ranking #9 on the Top 150 with a 0.33 rating in the key demo.
Network TV numbers aren’t available as of this writing.
Below is our 2020 RAW Viewership Tracker:
January 6 Episode: 2.385 million viewers with a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 13 Episode: 2.030 million viewers with a 0.61 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 20 Episode: 2.380 million viewers with a 0.83 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 27 Episode: 2.402 million viewers with a 0.76 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Royal Rumble episode)
February 3 Episode: 2.168 million viewers with a 0.67 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 10 Episode: 2.337 million viewers with a 0.80 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 17 Episode: 2.437 million viewers with a 0.79 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 24 Episode: 2.210 million viewers with a 0.71 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 2 Episode: 2.256 million viewers with a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Super ShowDown episode)
March 9 Episode: 2.163 million viewers with a 0.69 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Elimination Chamber episode)
March 16 Episode: 2.335 million viewers with a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic (first-ever WWE Performance Center episode)
March 23 Episode: 2.006 million viewers with a 0.61 rating in the 18-49 demographic (second WWE PC episode)
March 30 Episode: 1.924 million viewers with a 0.58 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 6 Episode: 2.118 million viewers with a 0.70 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-WrestleMania 36 episode)
April 13 Episode: 1.913 million viewers with a 0.56 rating in the 18-49 demographic (return to live TV)
April 20 Episode: 1.842 million viewers with a 0.56 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 27 Episode: 1.817 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 4 Episode: 1.686 million viewers with a 0.46 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 11 Episode: 1.919 million viewers with a 0.57 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Money In the Bank episode)
May 18 Episode:
May 25 Episode: 1.735 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Memorial Day episode)
June 1 Episode: 1.728 million viewers with a 0.49 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 8 Episode: 1.737 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 15 Episode:
2019 Total: 125.746 million viewers over 52 episodes
2019 Average: 2.418 million viewers per episode
2018 Total: 149.628 million viewers over 53 episodes
2018 Average: 2.823 million viewers per episode
2017 Total: 156.971 million viewers over 52 episodes
2017 Average: 3.018 million viewers per episode
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