Ratings Report: Total Wrestling Viewership with DVRs for Oct. 5-19

The following is a pro wrestling TV break down for the last three weeks of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, TNA Impact, and ROH TV, with DVR viewing included.

WWE Raw

– Oct. 5 episode: Raw’s three individual hours averaged 3.378 million viewers live.

Raw with DVR viewing averaged 3.808 million viewers, a “DVR bump” of 12.7 percent. This is right in-line with Raw’s average.

Hourly Break Down: 3.473 million first hour live viewers (3.874 million with DVR), 3.494 million second hour live viewers (3.957 million with DVR), and a sharp decline to 3.167 million third hour live viewers (3.595 million with DVR).

– Oct. 12 episode: Raw’s three individual hours averaged 3.284 million viewers live.

Raw with DVR viewing averaged 3.633 million viewers, a “DVR bump” of 10.6 percent, which is below average.

Hourly Break Down: 3.518 million first hour viewers live (3.807 million with DVR), sharp decline to 3.254 million second hour viewers live (3.605 million with DVR), and another decline to 3.082 million third hour viewers (3.487 million live)

– Oct. 19 episode: The Legends/pre-HIAC episode averaged 3.356 million viewers.

Raw with DVR viewing averaged 3.784 million viewers, a DVR dump of 12.7 percent. But, the episode was below two weeks earlier on Oct. 5.

Hourly Break Down: 3.600 million first hour live viewers (4.006 million with DVR), 3.347 million second hour live viewers (3.741 million with DVR), and a sharp decline to 3.123 million third hour live viewers (3.606 million with DVR).

The first hour drawing 4.006 million total viewers was the first time an hour of Raw topped 4.0 million since September 7. Viewers checked out Raw at the start, but there was a 10 percent decline (400,000 viewers) from the first hour to third hour.

WWE Smackdown

– Oct. 8 episode: Smackdown drew 2.147 million live viewers.

DVR viewership brought the total to 2.416 million viewers, a “DVR bump” of 12.5 percent.

– Oct. 15 episode: Smackdown drew 2.090 million live viewers.

DVR viewership brought the total to 2.336 million viewers, a DVR bump of 11.8 percent.

– Oct. 22 episode: Smackdown leading into HIAC drew 2.204 million live viewers, the most of the fall season.

DVR viewership brought the total to 2.415 million, a DVR bump of 9.6 percent, which was not enough to top the Oct. 8 episode.

TNA Impact

– Oct. 7 episode: Impact drew 335,000 live viewers.

DVR viewing added 35,000 viewers and the West Coast/replay added 112,000 viewers.

TNA’s total audience was 482,000 viewers.

– Oct. 14 episode: Impact fell to 242,000 live viewers.

DVR viewing added 45,000 viewers and the West Coast/replay added 85,000 viewers.

TNA’s total audience was 372,000 viewers, down more than 100,000 total viewers from Oct. 7.

– Oct. 21 episode: Impact increased to 264,000 live viewers.

DVR viewing added only 17,000 viewers and the West Coast/replay added only 63,000 viewers.

TNA’s total audience was 344,000 viewers, the fewest since we began tracking DVR figures in June.

ROH TV

– Oct. 7 episode: The only airing at 11:00 p.m. EST drew 175,000 viewers. DVR numbers are not available since ROH did not rank in the weekly cable rankings.

– Oct. 14 episode: The only airing drew 174,000 viewers.

– Oct. 21 episode: The weekly airing drew 132,000 viewers.

Total Wrestling Viewership Pie

– Week of Oct. 5: Because of strong TNA and ROH audience levels, WWE’s share of the total pie shrank to 90 percent.

The total wrestling pie was 6.145 million live viewers and 6.881 million viewers with DVR added.

– Week of Oct. 12: TNA declined 100,000 viewers, giving WWE more of a share of the total pie despite Raw falling.

WWE’s share was 91.5 percent, up from 90 percent the previous week.

The total wrestling pie was only 5.875 million live viewers and 6.515 million viewers with DVD added.

This was the smallest pie since we began tracking DVR viewing in June.

– Week of Oct. 19: TNA and ROH’s declines gave WWE a greater share of the pie.

WWE’s share was 92-93 percent, up from 90 and 91.5 percent the previous two weeks.

The total wrestling pie was 6.019 million live viewers and 6.675 million viewers with DVR added.