----All I can say is “Wow!!!” The show Saturday scored a whopping 5.0 [85,560 viewers] overall. This is the highest ratings of late night and the highest rating ever in our data span [5.15 to 10.07.06]. The first quarter opened at the battle royal and ended with Flex/Tim/Brick/White out doing an interview scoring a 5.1 [85,560 viewers]. The second quarter started with the finish of the interview and ended in the middle of the “Opening the Vault” Andy Kaufman segment scoring 4.8 [80,234 viewers] just as Hart/Kaufman started fighting. That quarter had a 5,326 drop. The third quarter was the most watched quarter that I have seen since getting quarter ratings with a 5.8 [96,214 viewers]. This was an increase of 15,980 viewers. The quarter included rest of Kaufman and the Cowboys match. The final quarter lost 22,639 viewers dropping to a 4.4 rating [73,575 viewers], which included the Derrick King interview and King vs Lawler.
----I am happy for the company and hope they can continue at this rate. I am totally surprised. If for some reason this trend continues, this program will help anyone that appears on it. Best I can tell with some of the older ratings is that the show does have ups and down, but I would be surprised to see it drop down to below 3.0 in this up coming week. The last two shows have been good and that helps. Both shows were written by mostly Lawler, so you got to give him his props on that.
----I wished I didn’t have to write this paragraph, because I hate to get the reputation of always talking negative stuff. There are two negatives in this show [other than the Cowboys getting seen by more people than anyone else]. #1: Since looking at the quarter hours, this is the first time the show finished with lower total viewers than it started with. 11,985 viewers total shut it off from start to finish. #2: Lawler/DK was shut off by 22,639 viewers. This was also the second week in a row that Lawler appeared in the quarter that dropped the most viewers. I was joking above, but seriously I blame the drop not on Lawler/DK, but on the Cowboys. Even though they were in the highest rated quarter, nothing in the quarter made people want to stay watching.
