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WWE NEWS: Raw TV viewership slides for second Raw after WrestleMania, eerily similar pattern to post-Survivor Series

Apr 7, 2015 - 8:08:02 PM

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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

We do not have the Raw TV rating yet for Monday's show.

- Raw averaged 3.963 million viewers, according to TVBytheNumbers.com, down 26 percent from last week's big audience of 5.363 million viewers following WrestleMania.

The show was hurt tremendously by the third hour, which only drew 3.552 million viewers, the second-fewest of the year. This was against the conclusion of a competitive NCAA Tournament final game between Duke and Wisconsin.

Hourly Break Down: 4.300 million first hour viewers, decline to 4.039 million second hour viewers, and a sharp decline to 3.552 million third hour viewers.

Raw nearly losing one million viewers from the first to third hour was one of the biggest drop-offs in the three-hour Raw era.

- 4/6/15: 17.4 percent drop from first to third hour, 12.1 percent drop from second to third hour.

- 12/1/14: 17.9 percent drop from first to third hour, 12.2 percent drop from second to third hour. (Eerily similar pattern for the second Raw following a major PPV. In this case, it was Survivor Series, where the audience tuned out eight days later once expectations for "big changes" - e.g. The Authority kicked out of power after Sting's debut - did not materialize, similar to right now when there was hope after a strong WrestleMania, but the departure of Brock Lesnar has put Raw back in the same pre-WrestleMania rut.)

- 1/20/14: 16.9 percent drop from first to third hour, 12.7 percent drop from second to third hour. (This was the Raw centered on Batista's big return the week before the Royal Rumble. After Batista returned, the audience tuned out.)