The Ratings Are In!!!

----Memphis Wrestling continues to surprise me in this time slot scoring 4.7 [78, 402 viewers] overall for this past Saturday’s show. This was the second highest show of our time span of 5.13.06 to the current show. The only show that ranked higher is the 10.7.06 show, which had a 5.0 rating.

----This show opened huge with the Sputnik Monroe story and clips of last week’s Rocker vs King match with a 5.5 [90,887 viewers]. The show dropped to 4.9 [81,898 viewers] for King vs Rocker this week and “Opening the Vault”. That quarter lost 8989 viewers. The next quarter dropped just slightly to 4.6 [76,072 viewers] with rest of the vault, the 10 man tag and the start of the Harold Ford Jr interview. This quarter lost 5826 viewers. In the final quarter, which started with the finish of the Ford interview and ended with the 6 man tag featuring Jerry Lawler dropped a whopping 11,153 viewers to a 3.9 [64,919 viewers].

----The first quarter hour being so high can be contributed to there was mention of Monroe's death all over the news in this area and Maclin was saying Memphis Wrestling would have a special on him. The show continued good numbers until the last quarter, when it dropped over 11,000 viewers. The last three shows that Lawler has appeared in a match at the studio has had the most lost for each show. The 9.30 show had over 13,000 viewers shut off and on 10.07.06 over 22,000 viewers shut off a Lawler vs King bout. No explanation other than people just do not care to see Lawler wrestle on TV?? But, it could be they were turned off by the Harold Ford piece?? The only negativity of the show was that they did lose 25,968 viewers from the start to the finish. This also is the 6^th week in a row that the promotion has delivered a good show.