Not a good week for TV wrestling in Memphis. Just about every show dropped in ratings with the exception of WWE RAW, but RAW’s numbers fell off considerably in the 2nd hour. I did not receive any ratings for Thursday’s TNA Impact show as I only got ratings for the 5 local stations for that day. What I did get on that Thursday was ratings for MyNetworkTV/Ch.50’s showing of the Wrestlemania XXIV highlights special. While the 1.9 doesn’t look impressive, that’s a huge number for Ch. 50. Ch. 50 had to be excited again for Friday’s numbers from Smackdown. The 3.0 SD received this week was half of what it pulled last week on the CW Network, but just give people a few weeks to find Smackdown on Ch. 50 and it wouldn’t surprise me to see SD’s numbers back to where they were on the CW Network.
Memphis Wrestling: It is what it is. The numbers tell the story. No comment needed.
Monday Night RAW had a decent week as its overall number was up a point from last week. The 1st hour of RAW had good numbers but in the 2nd hour the viewers tuned out and the ratings dropped almost a full point. I did notice the Monday Night Football ratings went up about 2 points at the 9pm hour and held that number till the end of the game
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.
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Wrestlemania Special on MyNetworkTV
( Thursday ) 10-02-08
Final Rating: 1.9 ( 30,790 viewers ) 2 share
Quarter hours: 1.7 ( 27,549 viewers )
1.8 ( 29,169 )
2.5 ( 40,513 )
1.7 ( 27,549 )
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 10-03-08
Final Rating: 3.0 ( 48,615 viewers ) 5 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 2.5 ( 40,513 viewers )
2.7 ( 43,754 )
2.5 ( 40,513 )
3.0 ( 48,615 )
2nd hour: 3.1 ( 50,236 viewers )
4.5 ( 72,923 )
2.8 ( 45,374 )
3.2 ( 51,856 )
Memphis Wrestling 10-04-08
Final Rating: 0.1 ( 1,621 viewers ) 0 share
Quarter hours: 0.0
0.0
0.2 ( 3,241 )
0.4 ( 6,482 )
WWE A.M. 10-05-08
Final Rating: 0.7 ( 11,344 viewers ) 2 share
WWE RAW 10-06-08
Final Rating: 5.1 ( 82,646 viewers ) 7 share
1st hour: 5.5 ( 89,128 viewers ) 8 share
Quarter hours: 5.4 ( 87,507 viewers )
5.6 ( 90,748 )
5.6 ( 90,748 )
5.5 ( 89,128 )
2nd hour: 4.6 (74,543 viewers ) 6 share
Quarter hours: 5.1 ( 82,646 viewers )
4.6 ( 74,543 )
4.3 ( 69,682 )
4.3 ( 69,682 )
Overrun: 4.2 ( 68,061 viewers )
----Ron Guidry works for a Memphis TV station and provides the rating analysis every week. He was formerly known as “The Penguin” with the old Kick Ass Wrestling promotion.----
