Welcome to the 1st edition of “What Memphis Watches”. My name is Ron Guidry. You may know me better as “The Penguin” from the old Kick Ass Wrestling. I work for a Memphis TV station and will be writing this column weekly here on Rasslinriotonline.com. Basically, I’ll be giving you the TV ratings from the Memphis market for: Memphis Wrestling, Raw, TNA Impact, Smackdown, WWE AM, and TNA Impact’s replay. ECW ratings are not made available. Brian and I thought it would be interesting to see on a weekly basis what wrestling shows the Memphis TV market watches. If you have any questions just email me at: rpg187@gmail.com.
This 1st edition will include Smackdown from 5/02/08. Memphis Wrestling, WWE AM and TNA Impact replay from Saturday 5/03/08 and RAW from 5/05/08.
Next week’s edition will include all shows mentioned above.
Note: The ratings for RAW is listed as 2 separate hours. I will round off, to the highest number, the averages of both hours for the final rating.
Thanks and enjoy!!!
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 5-2-08
Final Rating: 5.2 [87,304 viewers] 8 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 5.0, 4.6, 4.8, 5.8
2nd hour: 4.9, 4.5. 4.5, 6.7
Memphis Wrestling 5-3-08
Final Rating: 3.4 [57,083 viewers] 6 share
Quarter hours: 4.7 [78,908 viewers], 3.6 [60,440 viewers], 2.6 [43,651 viewers], 2.7[45,330 viewers]
*1st Quarter is the highest quarter rating since July, 2007.
TNA Impact Replay 5-3-08
Final Rating: 0.4[6,716 viewers] 1 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 0.3 [5,038 viewers], 0.7[11,752 viewers], 0.6 [10073 viewers], 0.3 [5038 viewers]
2nd hour: 0.3 [5038 viewers], 0.3 [5038 viewers], 0.2 [3358 viewers], 0.9 [15,110 viewers]
WWE A.M. 5-4-08
Final Rating: 0.9 [15,110 viewers] 2 share
Quarter hours: 0.8 [13,431 viewers], 1.0 [16,789 viewers], 1.0 [16,789 viewers], 0.8 [13,431 viewers]
WWE Raw 5-5-08
Final Rating: 4.0 [67,156 viewers] 6 share
1st hour: 3.6 [60,440 viewers] 5 share
Quarter hours: 2.7, 3.3, 4.2, 4.2
2nd hour: 4.3 [72,193 viewers] 6 share
Quarter hours: 4.1, 4.5, 3.9, 4.6
Overrun: 4.7 [78,908 viewers]
BT NOTE
----I would like to welcome Ron Guidry to the RRO staff. Ron is a long time fan of Memphis Wrestling and as he noted worked in KAW as “The Penguin”. Below are the ratings from last week that we never covered, but I wanted to add them. Ron will be dealing with the ratings from this point on, but I will be adding some stuff to his report or present a separate small piece on them.
Memphis Wrestling 4.26.08
Final Rating 1.8 [30,220 viewers]
1.5 [25,184 viewers], 1.9 [31,899 viewers], 1.6 [28,862 viewers], 2.0 [33,578 viewers]
5.03.08
12 Week Average: 2.1 [34,649 viewers]
12 Week High: 3.4 [57,083 viewers] 5.03.08
12 Week Low: 1.1 [19,139 viewers] 3.15.08
If you want to read last week’s Memphis Wrestling report, then CLICK HERE to read it on Wrestling News Center.
