Raw Rating: Raw rating drops, well below one-year-ago and two-year-ago levels, key metrics

Last night’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw (7/2) on USA Network drew a 1.80 rating, down from the 1.90 last week and 1.97 the week before. This is a drop-off from the year-ago rating on July 3, 2017, which was 1.91; two years ago Raw drew a 1.87.

The first hour drew a 2.641 million viewers, then grew to 2.822, and then dropped to 2.658.

The averaged viewership of the three hours this week (2.707 million) was actually above last week’s (2.666 million), even though the rating was down, which is a bit of an aberration because the rating takes into account the percentage of people with cable watching averaged over three hours, whereas viewership counts people who watch during the hour regardless of how long they watched. So this show drew more people to watch some of Raw, but their average-length watching was shorter than usual, which only showed up in the rating metric.

Last week’s Raw’s three hours finished in the no. 3, 4, and 5 spots in Monday’s cable ratings in the key 18-49 demographic, according to TVByTheNumbers. It was the most watched non-cable-news program, though, in overall viewership last Monday night.

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