For a 2nd week in a row, the TV shows had a strong week of ratings. Smackdown was the 2nd most watched show in its 7pm-9pm primetime slot last Friday night. Smackdown was 2nd only to CBS’s show NUMB3RS by 1/10th of a point with SD pulling a 5.6 to NUMB3ERS’ 5.7. It will be interesting to see in the next few weeks what good ol’ J.R. and Triple H moving to Smackdown will do to those already great ratings.
TNA’s Impact held steady this week keeping the same rating as last week. One thing I noticed is that Impact’s numbers dropped in the last quarter hour of the 2nd hour. That tells me that people were not interested in the main event of Christian/AJ Styles vs. Team 3D. It also tells me that they were very interested in the World X Cup matches and Awesome Kong. 2 things that are fresh and very entertaining.
RAW, in my opinion, had another strong week. While the final ratings were down from last week, they drew great numbers for the 3-hour show. The ratings went up with each hour and that’s what you want to see in your ratings. I thought the show was one of the better shows that WWE has put together this year. It was one of those “Anything can happen” shows. Seriously, who would have guessed that Jim Ross and Triple H would have moved to Smackdown. The numbers showed that Memphis liked this week’s RAW too.
There were no ratings for the Impact replay on Saturday because of the UFC marathon that Spike ran that day. UFC’s highest hour that day was from 4-5pm when it drew a 1.5 and it’s highest quarter hour was from 9:30-:45 when it drew a 1.8 . You can draw your own opinions here.
Another good week for Sanford and Son and The Andy Griffith Show that now runs on Saturday night in the old Memphis Wrestling time slot. The shows drew a 4.4 [73,872 viewers] and 3.2 [53,725 viewers] respectively. An odd story, Saturday afternoon I was hanging with a friend who grew up in Georgia. We got to talking about wrestling and he said he doesn’t watch it much anymore. He said he loved the wrestling he grew up watching in Georgia (TBS stuff) and the stuff now was boring to him. As I was taking him back home Saturday night he said, and I quote, “Guess I’m gonna watch Sanford and Son and Andy Griffith and hit the sack”. I can’t make this stuff up!
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Note: The ratings for RAW this week is listed as 3 separate hours. I will round off, to the highest number, the averages of all 3 hours for the final rating.
Thanks and enjoy!!!
TNA Impact (Thursday) 6-19-08
Final Rating: 2.4 [40,294 viewers] 4 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 2.5 [41,973 viewers], 2.3 [38,615 viewers], 2.5 [41,973 viewers], 3.2 [53,725 viewers]
2nd hour: 2.9 [48.664 viewers], 2.3 [38615 viewers], 2.2 [36,917 viewers], 1.7 [28,527 viewers]
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 6-20-08
Final Rating: 5.6 [93,796 viewers] 10 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 4.9[ 82,071 viewers] 5.9 [98,820 viewers], 5.3 [88,771 viewers], 5.1 [85,421 viewers]
2nd hour: 6.4 [107,195 viewers], 5.7 [95,471 viewers], 5.7 [95,471 viewers], 5.9 [98,820 viewers]
WWE A.M. 6-22-08
Final Rating: 0.6 [10,050 viewers] 1 share
Quarter hours: 0.2 [3350 viewers], 0.2 [3,350 viewers], 0.4 [6670 viewers], 1.5 [25,124 viewers]
WWE Raw 6-23-08
Final Rating: 6.1 [102,170 viewers] 9 share
1st hour: 4.8 [80,396 viewers] 7 share
Quarter hours: 4.8 [80,396 viewers], 4.6 [77046 viewers], 4.7 [78,721 viewers], 4.9 [82,071 viewers]
2nd hour: 5.9 [98,820 viewers] 9 share
Quarter hours: 5.3 [88,771 viewers], 5.7 [95,471 viewers], 5.6 [93,796 viewers], 6.9 [115,570 viewers]
3rd hour: 7.4 [123,944 viewers] 11 share
Quarter hours: 7.8 [130,644 viewers], 7.7 [128,969 viewers], 7.1 [118,919 viewers], 7.0 [116,902 viewers]
Overrun: 6.2 [103,541 viewers]
----Ron Guidry works for a Memphis TV station and provides the rating anaylsis every week. He was formerly known as “The Penguin” was the old Kick Ass Wrestling promotion.
