By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

TV Wrestling Viewership Break Down
Week of August 17

- WWE drew 93 percent of the total wrestling TV market share, compared to a seasonal high of 94 percent last week, mainly due to an increase in TNA Impact's audience.

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

- Total Live TV Wrestling Viewership: 7.749 million viewers, up from 7.423 million viewers last week, mainly due to Impact and Smackdown rebounding from a year-low.

- Total DVR Added Viewership: 8.656 million viewers, up from 8.343 million viewers last week, mainly due to Smackdown and a bump in Raw's DVR viewership.

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- Monday, August 17: WWE Raw's three individual hours averaged 3.776 million viewers live + same day, down from 3.837 million viewers last week.

However, DVR viewing pushed Raw past last week's show...

8:00 p.m.: 3.649 million live viewers, 4.130 million with DVR (+13.2%)
9:00 p.m.: 3.953 million live viewers, 4.406 million with DVR (+11.5%)
10:00 p.m.: 3.728 million live viewers, 4.227 million with DVR (+13.4%)

-SHOW AVG.: 3.776 million viewers live, 4.254 million with DVR (+12.6%)
-LAST WEEK: 3.837 million viewers live, 4.218 million with DVR (+9.9%)

Overall, the August 17 Raw grabbed 49 percent of the total TV wrestling audience, back to the usual share after grabbing 51 percent last week.

- Tuesday, August 18: Tough Enough Week 9 drew 998,000 viewers, down from 1.025 million viewers the week before.

DVR viewing added 14 percent for a total of 1.138 million total viewers, down from 1.233 million total viewers last week.

- Wednesday, Aug. 19: Ring of Honor's only airing at 11:00 p.m. EST drew 145,000 viewers, essentially even with 148k and 151k the previous two weeks. ROH did not place in the weekly cable TV rankings, therefore DVR viewing was not accounted for.

- Wednesday, Aug. 19: TNA Impact drew 323,000 first-run viewers at 9:00 p.m. EST, up from 270,000 last week.

Impact added 43,000 DVR viewers and the midnight replay after ROH TV drew 73,000 viewers.

Therefore, TNA's total audience was 439,000 viewers, up from 397,000 total viewers last week.

- Thursday, Aug. 20: WWE Smackdown drew 2.434 million first-run viewers, up from a year-low 2.083 million viewers last week.

DVR viewing added 10 percent to bring total viewership to 2.680 million viewers, up from 2.347 million total viewers last week.

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