----Jerry Lawler has officially ended his streak of losing viewers during live matches, but the show is not doing the numbers it did last year. The December, 2006 average, even with the holidays, was 3.4 [56,596 viewers]. The first three shows of the New Year have drawn about 13,000 less viewers. Saturday’s show did a 2.8 [45,777 viewers].
----The show opened with a 2.1 [35,622 viewers] with the Bam Bam tribute and Dundee vs King. The next quarter jumped 13,982 viewers scoring a 3.0 [49,605 viewers] for the Jimmy Hart announcement and the start of Lawler vs Jethro/Nate. The third quarter scored the same with 3.0 [49,605 viewers] for finish of Lawler vs Jethro/Nate, the 8-man tag and Tim Grind interview talking about Flex being in jail. The last quarter only dropped 666 viewers scoring a 2.9 [48,939 viewers] for the Starr/White vs Grind/Flash title change and the White turning heel angle. The show finished with 13,317 more viewers than it started with.
----Even though the show is not doing the ratings of last month, there are still positives. The main one is that hardly anyone turned off the show with the only loss being less than 700 viewers. So, that is saying that the people that were watching the show were actually enjoying it. Lawler has to be happy about not losing viewers and breaking his 7th show streak. A negative would be they promoted with a few commercials during “Smackdown” of a big announcement from Jimmy Hart and it looks like it did not affect the ratings.
