Monday, December 18, 2006

The Ratings are In!! The News is not good...

----The Memphis Wrestling TV show finished with a 2.3 [37,953] overall this week. This is the second worst rating the show has scored since the debut of this site. The 8.19.06 show still is the worst rated show, which finished with a 1.9.

----The show opened poorly again this week with a 1.7 [27,965 viewers]. That first quarter was the Lawler/Maclin shoot, R&R challenged by FOP and finished with the “Clowns” vs “Posse” bout. The second quarter jumped 3,829 viewers scoring only a 1.9 [31,794 viewers] for “Too Cool 2” interview, Jethro vs Tatt2 and ending with King/Flash/Fine interview. The third quarter jumped with 19,309 viewers with a 3.1 [51,103 viewers] rating. This quarter included the White/Dundee/Starr interview, 6-man tag, Brickhouse interview and the start of the Lawler interview about Hogan. The final quarter finished up the Lawler interview, the FOP vs R&R bout and Koko Ware returning. That quarter [4th] finished dropping 10,487 viewers with a 2.4 [40,616 viewers] rating.

----I would not consider this part of Lawler’s streak, because he was just special ref in the main event, but the 4th quarter continues to suffer. Starr/White may feel a little better also, since they were tagging with Lawler during a few of those bouts. These ratings in part can be blamed on the holidays, but they are still below average. Even with this rating averaged in this quarter [Oct-Nov-Dec], the average has been 3.8. The average last year in the quarter was 3.4 in the morning spot. This was a really good show aside from not continuing the storylines [Starr getting burned] and Tatt2 vs Jethro [which I think was the worst bout I have seen either guy in]. The only positive thing about the show was that it finished with 12,651 more viewers than it started with.