WWE Raw Rating, Viewership Tick Down After Last Week’s Rebound

– The rating for this week’s episode of Raw were down a bit after last week’s three-month high. Monday’s episode brought in a 0.86 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 2.462 million viewers. Those numbers are down 5% and 10% from last week’s 0.91 demo rating and audience of 2.722 million. Both metrics, however, were still above the rating and viewership throughout the holidays and were (other than last week) the best since December 17th’s 0.86 and 2.547.

Raw ranked #2 among cable originals for the night per Showbuzz Daily, behind the NBA game on TNT (0.97 demo rating, 2.467 million) that stole much of Raw’s third hour viewership. The hourly numbers were:

8 PM: 0.95 demo rating, 2.840 million viewers
9 PM: 0.85 demo rating, 2.403 million viewers
10 PM: 0.77 demo rating, 2.143 million viewers