WWE Raw Rating Jumps to Highest Point Since Early September Following Royal Rumble

– The rating for this week’s Raw, bouyed by the Royal Rumble, hit a twenty-one week high. Monday’s post-Rumble episode brought in a 0.95 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 2.703 million viewers. Those numbers are up 10% each from last week’s 0.86 demo rating and 2.462 million viewers. The rating is the best since before the football season kicked off in September, beating all episodes since the September 3rd, 2018 Raw (which had a 0.97). The viewership was still slightly down from the 2.722 million from two weeks ago, though.

Raw ranked #1 among cable originals for the night per Showbuzz Daily, beating out Love & Hip-Hop on VH-1 (0.63 demo rating, 2.575 million viewers). The hourly numbers were:

8 PM: 1.00 demo rating (2.816 million viewers)
9 PM: 0.95 demo rating (2.718 million viewers)
10 PM: 0.90 demo rating (2.575 million viewers)