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Monday’s Raw, without football competition, rose two percent from last week’s 1.85 million viewers. It’s more an indication of how well last week’s episode did with the Triple H return and curiosity about Drew McIntyre addressing his positive COVID-19 test announced on the day of the show.
The number is probably on the low side of what Raw would do after football, which would be about 1.9 million viewers for an average episode. Monday’s performance achieved a rating of 0.60 in the 18-49 demo. It is nine percent higher than last week, but 18-34 has fallen by 11 percent from last week.
Raw was third for the night in 18-49 and left two NBA games on TNT. In total, Raw was 34th, but all the shows that beat Raw were NBA or news.
Straight Up Steve Austin, which aired after Raw on the USA Network, averaged 672,000 viewers and a 0.19 rating in 18-49, placing it in 40th place in the cable rankings, but even out of peak time it 11th, not news programs.
Raw was fourth in women 18-49, third in men 18-49, third in 18-34, fourth in women 12-34 and fourth in men 12-34.
The first two hours were strong and the third hour fell slightly above normal levels. The NBA game against the first two hours attracted 2.11 million viewers and a score of 0.87 in 18-49, and the game against hour three had 2.32 million viewers and a rating of 0.91 in attracted the demo.
Compared to a year ago, Raw was 22% lower, 28% in 18-49 and 46% in 18-34.
The one-to-three drop was 19 percent for women 18-49, ten percent for men 18-49, five percent for teenage girls, a seven percent gain for teenage boys and a 14 percent drop for over 50s.
The three hours were:
- 20:00 1.99 million viewers
- 21:00 1.88 million viewers
- 22:00 1.70 million viewers