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TV WRESTLING VIEWERSHIP - Week of June 15: Full Break Down of last week's Raw, Smackdown, Impact, ROH, Lucha

Jun 23, 2015 - 2:30:04 PM

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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

TV Wrestling Viewership Break Down
Week of June 15

For the Big Five cable TV shows of WWE Raw, TNA Impact, ROH TV, Lucha Underground, and WWE Smackdown...

- Total Live Wrestling Viewership: 7.361 million (up 4.7 percent from 7.030 million total viewers last week). This was mainly due to increases for WWE Raw and TNA Impact.

- DVR Added Viewership: 8.093 million viewers (up 3.4 percent from 7.825 million last week).

- WWE's TV programming grabbed 89.4 percent of the live TV wrestling share, compared to 89.0 percent last week and 90.0 percent two weeks ago.

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- June 15: WWE Raw's three individual hours averaged 4.113 million viewers for the episode featuring Brock Lesnar's return. Raw's viewership increased 9.3 percent through DVR viewing...

8:00 p.m.: 4.095 million live, 4.470 million with DVR
9:00 p.m.: 4.249 million live, 4.623 million with DVR (big audience)
10:00 p.m.: 3.997 million live, 4.393 million with DVR
AVG.: 4.113 million viewers live, 4.495 million with DVR (+9.3%)

Overall, the June 15 Raw grabbed 57.4 percent of the pie for total live wrestling viewership and 56.9 percent of the week's viewership with DVR added in.

- June 17: Ring of Honor's first-run airing on Destination America drew 172,000 viewers, up from the first two episodes.

DVR viewership was 14,000 viewers to bring the total to 186,000, up slightly from 182k last week, but down from 198k on June 3.

Adding in the 11:00 p.m. EST replay, ROH drew a total of 286,000 viewers. This was the fewest in three weeks compared to 308k total Week 1 and 320k total Week 2.

- June 17: TNA Impact drew 347,000 first-run viewers, up from 330k last week.

Impact added 81,000 viewers via DVR for a total of 428,000 viewers, up from 413k last week and 364k two weeks ago when Impact moved timeslots.

Adding in the midnight EST replay, Impact drew a total of 530,000 viewers. This was the most in three weeks, building from 449k total in Week 1 and 487k total in Week 2.

- June 17: Lucha Underground on El Rey Network drew 61,000 first-run viewers, which fell in the middle of this current three-week stretch.

Lucha added 30,000 DVR viewers (the same as last week) for a total of 91,000 viewers.

Lucha is generating a significant amount of its audience from DVR viewing - 36 percent two weeks ago, 42 percent last week, and 49 percent this week.

- June 18: WWE Smackdown drew 2.466 million live viewers on Syfy. DVR viewing added 225,000 viewers for a total of 2.691 million viewers.

This was down from a total audience of 2.814 million viewers last week and 2.713 million viewers two weeks ago.