We start out this week with one of the strangest set of numbers I’ve seen since I started doing this column. The Saturday night replay of TNA Impact has been drawing a rating of about 1.0, give or take a few tenths of a point. This past Saturday night it did a whopping 2.4. Normally, the original airing doesn’t even do that good of a number. Ironically the Thursday night show did a 2.8, one of the biggest ratings it’s achieved since the column started. The only explanation I can come up with for Impact’s replay was the lead-in show. The movie “Predator” was the lead-in to the replay of Impact. It did a rating of 2.7. Obviously, fans of “Predator” love wrestling too. I know in the case of local news’ ratings when the lead-in show has good numbers; it helps the news have a good rating. In turn, a poor lead-in show leads to poor news ratings. This seems to have affected the replay of Impact in the same way.
Smackdown continued its consistently strong numbers again this week as it was the 2nd most watched show in Memphis Friday night, just behind “2Fast, 2Furious”.
In a surprise, RAW dropped over 2 points this week. Going in I thought the number might have dropped a lil’ bit because of Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby and after seeing Josh Hamilton put on a clinic in the Derby (which I couldn’t quit watching) I was convinced that RAW’s number was gonna be lower. I was not expecting that much of a drop. The Derby drew a 4.2 and it obviously affected RAW’s final number. The good thing about RAW’s numbers this week was consistency. Both hours drew the same rating with the same share. At least they kept the audience they had.
Sanford and Son and The Andy Griffith Show, which runs in the old Memphis Wrestling timeslot, drew a 3.7 and 3.5 respectively.
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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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TNA Impact (Thursday) 7-10-08
Final Rating: 2.8 [45,445 viewers] 4 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 2.1 [34,084 viewers], 2.0 [32,461 viewers], 3.1 [50,314 viewers], 2.7 [43822 viewers]
2nd hour: 2.7 [43,822 viewers], 3.2 [51,937 viewers], 2.9 [47,068 viewers], 3.7 [60,052 viewers]
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 7-11-08
Final Rating: 5.5 [89,2667 viewers] 9 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 4.9 [79,528 viewers], 5.2 [84,397 viewers], 4.8 [77905 viewers], 6.0 [97,382 viewers]
2nd hour: 6.3 [102,251 viewers], 5.3 [86020 viewers], 5.2 [84,397 viewers], 6.3 [102,251 viewers]
TNA Impact Replay 7-12-08
Final Rating: 2.4 [38,953 viewers] 4 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 3.0 [48,691 viewers], 2.5 [40,576 viewers], 2.5 [40,544 viewers] , 2.7 [43,788 viewers]
2nd hour: 2.3 [37,301 viewers], 2.2 [35,679 viewers], 2.3 [37,301 viewers], 2.1 [34,057 viewers]
WWE A.M. 7-13-08
Final Rating: 0.9 [14,596 viewers] 3 share
Quarter hours: 1.4 [22,705 viewers], 1.0 16,218 viewers], 0.8 [12974 viewers], 0.6 [9731 viewers]
WWE Raw 7-14-08
Final Rating: 5.0 [81,089 viewers] 7 share
1st hour: 5.0 [81,089 viewers] 7 share
Quarter hours: 5.0 [81,089 viewers], 5.2 [84332 viewers], 4.7 [76,224 viewers], 5.1 [82,711 viewers]
2nd hour: 5.0 [81,089 viewers] 7 share
Quarter hours: 4.9 [79,467 viewers], 5.4 [87,576 viewers], 5.0 [81,089 viewers], 4.9 [79,467 viewers]
Overrun: 4.6 [74,602 viewers]
----Ron Guidry works for a Memphis TV station and provides the rating analysis every week. He was formerly known as “The Penguin” was the old Kick Ass Wrestling promotion.
