WWE Raw Ratings Report (7/29): Overall viewership and demo rating up against Olympics, ten-week averages, year-ago comparisons

By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor


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Last night’s (7/29) episode of WWE Raw on SyFy averaged 1.412 million viewers, down from 1.793 million the prior week. The ten-week rolling average is 1.704 million.

Hourly Viewership (in millions):

  • 1st Hour: 1.532 (down from 1.805 last week)
  • 2nd Hour: 1.463 (down from 1.902 last week)
  • 3rd Hour: 1.241 (down from 1.673 last week)

That third hour was among the least viewed hours of all-time, with a few holiday episodes drawing worse. Going up against the Olympics, though, is a key factor, as was the move from USA Network to SyFy for the first of two weeks. The ten-week average for hour three coming into this week was 1.614 million, so this was down 373,000 viewers.

One year ago this week, Raw averaged 1.819 million viewers. The ten-week rolling average was 1.778 million viewers.

In the key 18-49 demo, it drew it drew a 0.51 rating, down from 0.59 last week. The ten-week rolling average is 0.56.

One year ago this week, it drew a 0.53 rating. The ten-week rolling average was 0.54.

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