With the holiday last weekend, I wasn’t expecting a big showing this week. To my surprise, the 3 main shows held their own and some. This week TNA Impact’s overall number dropped, but the share number increased 1 point. How does that happen, you ask? It happens when less people, as a whole, were watching TV that night but the percentage of those people watching Impact was higher. Considering it was 4th of July eve and they actually increased their numbers in the 2nd hour finishing strong with their last 2 quarter hours being the highest rated of the show, that’s impressive!
Smackdown had the most surprising ratings this week. Holidays are never kind to TV ratings. Period! Understandably so, as most people are spending time with family and friends and not watching much TV, but this is Memphis. Of course we all know how Memphis loves wrestling and it showed as Smackdown ended up being tied as the most watched TV show in it’s timeslot! That, my friends, is impressive. It’s a Friday night and it happens to be the 4th of July and people stayed in to watch Smackdown??? WOW!!!
WOW!!! is the only way to describe the RAW ratings from Monday night. The final number was up almost 2 full points and the 3 quarter hours in a row with an 8+ ratings is strong. It’s been a long time since RAW has seen those types of numbers in Memphis. The one black eye was the last 2 quarter hours and the overrun which was the timeslot for the Fatal Four Way. Those last 2 quarter hours dropped over 2 points and the overrun dropped over 4 points from the 9:15 quarter hour that drew an 8.9. Doesn’t look like the fans cared much about the main event.
Sanford and Son and The Andy Griffith Show, which runs in the old Memphis Wrestling timeslot, drew a 3.4 [55,111 viewers] and 3.5 [56,732 viewers] respectively.
“Esther, I could take your face, roll it in some dough, and make some gorilla cookies!”
-Fred Sanford
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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.
Thanks and enjoy!!!
TNA Impact (Thursday) 7-03-08
Final Rating: 2.1 [34,191 viewers] 4 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 2.0 [32,563 viewers], 1.7 [27,678 viewers], 1.4 [22,794 viewers], 1.5 [24,422 viewers]
2nd hour: 2.2 [35819 viewers], 2.0 [32,563 viewers] , 2.9 [47,216 viewers], 3.0 [48,844 viewers]
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 7-04-08
Final Rating: 4.5 [73,266 viewers] 9 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 4.7 [76,622 viewers], 6.3 [102,322 viewers], 4.2 [68,515 viewers], 3.2 [51,973 viewers]
2nd hour: 4.6 [74,711 viewers], 4.0 [64,966 viewers], 4.3 [69,839 viewers], 4.8 [77,960 viewers]
TNA Impact Replay 7-05-08
Final Rating: 0.5 [8121 viewers] 1 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 0.8 [12,993 viewers], 0.7 [11369 viewers], 0.4 [64,97 viewers], 0.3 [48,72 viewers]
2nd hour: 1.0 [16242 viewers], 0.2 [3248 viewers], 0.3 4872 viewers], 0.3 [4872 viewers]
WWE A.M. 7-06-08
Final Rating: 1.6 [25,987 viewers] 4 share
Quarter hours: 1.7 [27,611 viewers], 1.5 [24,362 viewers], 1.1 [17,866 viewers], 1.9 [30,859 viewers]
WWE Raw 7-07-08
Final Rating: 7.2 [116,939 viewers] 11 share
1st hour: 6.8 [110,443 viewers] 10 share
Quarter hours: 5.7 [92,392 viewers], 6.5 [105359 viewers], 6.6 [106,980 viewers], 8.4 [136,156 viewers]
2nd hour: 7.6 [123,189 viewers] 11 share
Quarter hours: 8.8 [142,640 viewers], 8.9 [144,261 viewers], 6.4 [103,738 viewers], 6.6 [106,980 viewers]
Overrun: 4.1 [66457 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.
