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TV WRESTLING VIEWERSHIP - Week of July 27: Full Break Down of last week's Raw, Smackdown, Tough Enough, Impact & ROH

Aug 5, 2015 - 11:30:20 AM

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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

TV Wrestling Viewership Break Down
Week of July 27

- WWE had 93 percent of the TV market share, up from 92 percent last week, mainly due to the absence of ROH's prime-time airing. Also, factoring in DVR viewing, TNA Impact was flat trending downward compared to last week.

WWE Raw & Smackdown & Tough Enough, TNA Impact & ROH TV

- Total Live TV Wrestling Viewership: 7.669 million viewers, down from 7.954 million last week.

- Total DVR Added Viewership: 8.538 million viewers, down from 9.065 million last week.

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- Monday, July 27: WWE Raw's three individual hours averaged 3.668 million viewers live + same day, down from 3.804 million the previous week post-Battleground.

DVR viewing then accounted for an increase of 11 percent, down from 14 percent last week for the buzzworthy Undertaker-Brock Lesnar brawl episode.

8:00 p.m.: 3.421 million live viewers, 3.813 million with DVR (+11.5%)
9:00 p.m.: 3.754 million live viewers, 4.121 million with DVR (+9.8%)
10:00 p.m.: 3.829 million live viewers, 4.259 million with DVR (+11.2%). This was more than July 20 episode's third hour.

-SHOW AVG.: 3.668 million viewers live, 4.064 million with DVR (+10.8%)
-LAST WEEK: 3.804 million viewers live, 4.321 million with DVR (+13.6%)

Overall, the July 27 Raw grabbed its usual 48 percent of the total TV wrestling audience.

- Tuesday, July 21: Tough Enough Week 6 drew 980,000 first-run viewers, down from 1.144 million viewers the previous week.

With DVR viewing, the show drew 1.189 million total viewers, down from 1.391 million total viewers last week.

- Wednesday, July 22: Ring of Honor's only airing at 11:00 p.m. EST drew 171,000 viewers. ROH did not place int he weekly cable TV rankings, therefore DVR viewing was not accounted for.

- Wednesday, July 22: TNA Impact drew 343,000 first-run viewers. The show then added only 56,000 DVR viewers to arrive at the exact same total of 399,000 total viewers as last week.

The midnight replay after ROH drew 64,000, down from 71,000 last week. Therefore, TNA's total combined audience was 463,000, down from 470,000 last week.

- Thursday, July 23: WWE Smackdown drew 2.443 million million live + same day viewers on Syfy, up from 2.353 million viewers last week.

Adding in DVR viewing, Smackdown drew 2.651 million total viewers, up slightly from 2.618 million total viewers last week.