Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The Ratings Are In!!

----The show scored another good rating of 4.4 [73,242 viewers] for this past Saturday’s show. The only bad side to the show is that Jerry Lawler continues his streak.

----The first quarter scored 4.6 [76.072 viewers] with the Nate the Rat interview and the “Picture Perfect” match. The next quarter starting with the “Opening the Vault” segment and ending before the hot tag in the King/Fine vs Foley/Rocker bout. That quarter was up 2164 viewers. The third quarter continued to climb to 4.8 [79,598 viewers] adding 1,362 viewers for the finish of the King tag match and Hayes vs Giggles. The final quarter then dropped to 3.7 [61,091 viewers] for the Flex/Grind/Flash vs Lawler/Dustin Starr/Kevin White bout. That quarter dropped a surprising 18,507 viewers making it the 4th time in a row that a Jerry Lawler live match has had the highest drop of the show. Another bad trend in the last few weeks has been the show is turned off by viewers as 14,981 people turned it off from start to finish.

----This show, as noted before, was the 7th show in a row that I feel the Memphis show was good. It has furthered storylines and I hope they continue with them this week. The big surprise is the TV drawing power of Jerry Lawler. Has the WWE jobs really hurt him to TV viewers?? I have shown where the live crowds have not been hurt ["Jerry the Jobber"]because he still draws a crowd. But, Lawler has lost over 60,000 viewers in his last 4 Live TV matches??? My test if I worked for Memphis Wrestling would be to put Lawler in the first match on TV to see what happens.