WWE Raw Rating, Viewership Down For Superstar Shakeup

– This week’s episode of Raw saw a slip from last week’s, continuing the usual post-WrestleMania slide. Monday night’s episode brought in a 1.33 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 3.622 million viewers. Those numbers are down 9% and 8% respectively from last week’s 1.46 demo rating and 3.921 million viewers. Both metric are still well above the pre-WrestleMania numbers; the April 2nd episode had a 1.19 and 3.358 million.

Raw ranked #3 among cable originals for the night, behind two NBA Playoff games on TNT (1.54 demo rating and 3.653 million viewers; 1.38 rating and 3.426 million) per Showbuzz Daily. The hourly numbers were:

8 PM: 1.30 demo rating (3.634 million viewers)
9 PM: 1.38 demo rating (3.754 million viewers)
10 PM: 1.32 demo rating (3.479 million viewers)