Monday’s WWE RAW episode, featuring WWE Champion Drew McIntyre defeating Dolph Ziggler in a non-title Extreme Rules main event, drew an average of 1.617 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Showbuzz Daily.
This is down from last week’s 1.628 million viewers for the post-Extreme Rules pay-per-view episode, and is the second-lowest viewership in the history of the show.
For this week’s show, the first hour drew 1.699 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 1.740 million), the second hour drew 1.688 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 1.609 million) and the final hour drew 1.463 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 1.535 million).
This 1.463 million viewers is the lowest third hour viewership in the history of RAW. The next lowest third hour average was the 1.504 million viewers that the July 13 episode drew.
RAW tied for #19 for the night in viewership on cable, with Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, 90 Day Fiance: Other Way, The Five, Rachel Maddow Show, Last Word, The Ingraham Angle, Special Report, 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk, 90 Day Fiance: Strikes Back, The Story, FOX News at Night, Reidout, 11th Hour, Deadline: White House, Cuomo Prime Time, Below Deck, and All In. WWE ranked #4 for the night on the Cable Top 150, for the fourth week in a row, with an average 18-49 demographic rating of 0.48. The top three were 90 Day Fiance: Other Way, Below Deck, and 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk. 90 Day Fiance: Other Way topped the night on the Cable Top 150, for the sixth week in a row, with a 0.77 rating in the 18-49 demographic, drawing 3.015 million viewers. Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News once again topped the night on cable in viewership with 3.796 million viewers, ranking #6 on the Top 150 with a 0.30 rating in the key demo.
Based on overnight numbers, The Bachelor special on ABC drew an average of 1.666 million viewers on broadcast TV in the 8pm hour while The Neighborhood drew 3.901 million viewers on CBS, Titan Games drew 3.682 million viewers on NBC, 911 drew 2.049 million viewers on FOX and CW’s Whose Line Is It Anyway drew 921,000 viewers, all in the 8pm hour on broadcast TV.
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: 1.757 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic
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: 1.939 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Backlash episode)
June 22 Episode: 1.922 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Championship Edition)
June 29 Episode: 1.735 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 6 Episode: 1.687 million viewers with a 0.49 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 13 Episode: 1.561 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 20 Episode: 1.628 million viewers with a 0.46 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Extreme Rules episode)
July 27 Episode: 1.617 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 3 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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