By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

WWE Raw TV Ratings

-- September 21: Like social media activity, Monday's Raw TV audience was a mixed bag the night after the "Night of Champions" PPV.

Raw upticked slightly to a 2.47 rating after 2.42 and 2.44 ratings the previous two weeks. It's still in historically-low territory, but at least this week's show did not decline.

However, viewership declined from last week's show. Raw averaged 3.349 million viewers, down slightly from 3.397 million viewers last week and 3.385 million viewers two weeks ago.

Hourly Break Down: 3.420 million first hour viewers (modest start for a post-PPV episode), decline to 3.368 million second hour viewers, and another decline to 3.260 million third hour viewers.

- It appears Raw was hurt in the demographics outside of the 18-49 window. This was likely due to the Monday Night Football game on ESPN, which drew a healthy 12.4 million viewers.

In the key demos, the m18-49 rating shot up three-tenths of a rating after dropping three-tenths of a rating last week. WWE also recovered one-tenth of a rating in m18-34 after falling hard the previous week.

Meanwhile, the demo of all adults 18-49 was flat compared to last week's season-low. Barring a shift in viewing habits, it looks like the a18-49 rating will stay this way against "Dancing with the Stars" and Fall TV competition.

- Raw's significant decline in TV ratings can be found in a year-over-year comparison to recent Fall TV premiere weeks...

Sept. 24, 2012: 2.72 rating
Sept. 23, 2013: 2.81 rating
Sept. 22, 2014: 2.69 rating
Sept. 21, 2015: 2.47 rating

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