WWE Raw Rating, Viewership Rise Before SummerSlam

– The rating for this week’s episode of Raw rose as the company heads into SummerSlam this weekend. Monday night’s episode brought in a 0.97 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 2.825 million viewers. Those numbers are up 4% and 1% from last week’s 0.93 demo rating and 2.804 million viewers. Both metrics were still down slightly from the 0.99 and 2.901 million from two weeks ago.

Raw ranked #2 among cable originals for the night per Showbuzz Daily, behind VH-1’s Love & Hip-Hop (0.97 demo rating, 1.954 million viewers). The hourly numbers were:

8 PM: 0.97 demo rating (2.849 million viewers)
9 PM: 0.98 demo rating (2.867 million viewers)
10 PM: 0.95 demo rating (2.760 million viewers)