Raw 4/16 Viewership Drops During Superstar Shakeup

Pat FanninApril 17, 2018, 8:46 pm

The Superstar Shakeup did not attract as many viewers as the Raw after WrestleMania.

For over a month, Raw has been experiencing better than average ratings during the build up to WrestleMania and the week of fallout. Last week, two hours of Raw averaged over 4 million viewers and according to ShowBuzz Daily Raw's ratings fell this week during the Superstar Shakeup. Last week had a lot of returns and debuts as tradition has been for the night after WrestleMania. This week still had the re-debut of Drew McIntyre but most of the night was wrestlers switching between brands.

Hour 1: 3,634,000 viewers with 1.3 million in the 18-49 year old demographic.

Hour 2: 3,754,000 viewers with 1.38 million in the 18-49 year old demographic.

Hour 3: 3,479,000 viewers with 1.32 million in the 18-49 year old demographic.

Usually the first hour averages more viewers than hour two and three, but this week the second hour had the highest average of viewers.

Only one hour of Raw outperformed the NBA Playoff game which was in the same time slot. But WWE was ahead of all the other original cable content.

Last week's numbers on the WWE YouTube were much higher than usual with several videos receiving over one million views. This week only four received over one million views. Ronda Rousey who has drew a lot of YouTube views so far in her WWE career was in a video from Raw where she took out Sonya Deville. That video had over 3 million views. The main event of the night had 1.4 million views, Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler taking out Titus Worldwide had 1 million views, and The Miz being sent to Smackdown had 1.2 million views.