This past Memphis wrestling fans had a full plate of shows to watch and with the exception of WWE RAW viewership was down on all shows. The biggest drop was TNA Impact. After a strong run of ratings that started after the PPV back in June, Impact’s numbers this week fell back to what they were averaging before the PPV. Hopefully, this is only a one week occurrence as I was excited to see TNA starting to draw good numbers in the hometown of the greatest wrestling fans in the world (IMO).
Smackdown’s numbers were way down this week too but after looking at what other shows did, I noticed that those numbers were down too. I think it was just that no one was home last Friday night to watch Smackdown or anything else on TV.
Saturday saw the return of Memphis Wrestling back to TV and another installment of WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event. Memphis Wrestling’s show did a very respectable 2.8. Considering MW hasn’t run a new show in over 6 months and had little to no promotion of the show, that 2.8 is great. SNME also had a good showing with its 3.2 rating. Here’s a point to ponder: The national rating for SNME was 0.8. The Memphis rating quadrupled the national rating.
The only show of the week to improve from last week’s ratings was RAW, up almost a full point from last Monday night. Having written this report a little late this week has allowed me to notice a surprising stat. In Thursday election’s for the US House of Rep. Dist. 9 race between Steve Cohen and Nikki Tinker, a little over 63,000 people voted in that race. With its 6.0 rating at approx. 16,000 viewers per ratings point, 96,000 people watched RAW last Monday night. You can make your own joke here.
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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) 7-31-08
Final Rating: 2.2 [35,672 viewers] 3 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 2.3 [37,293 viewers], 1.7 [27,564 viewers], 1.7 [27,564 viewers], 2.2 [35,672 viewers]
2nd hour: 2.6 [42,157 viewers] 2.4 [38,914 viewers], 2.3 [37,293 viewers], 2.3 [37,293 viewers]
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 8-01-08
Final Rating: 3.7 [59993 viewers] 6 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 3.6 [58,371 viewers], 3.0 48,643 viewers], 3.1 [50,264 viewers], 2.4 [38,914 viewers]
2nd hour: 2.4 [38,914 viewers], 4.0 [64,857 viewers], 5.0 [81,072 viewers], 5.7 [92,422 viewers]
Memphis Wrestling – Redbirds Special - CW30 FINALE
Final Rating: 2.8 [45,400 viewers] 5 share
Quarter hours: 3.0 [48,616 viewers], 2.8 [45,375 viewers], 2.6 [42,134 viewers], 2.7 [43,754 viewers]
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event
Final Rating: 3.2 [51,857 viewers] 5 share
Quarter hours: 3.1 [50,237 viewers], 3.2 [51,857 viewers], 3.1 [50,237 viewers], 3.5 [56,719 viewers]
TNA Impact Replay 8-02-08
Final Rating: 1.2 [19,446 viewers] 2 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 0.6 [9723 viewers], 0.8 [12,964 viewers], 0.9 [14,585 viewers], 1.5 [24,308 viewers]
2nd hour: 1.1 [17,826 viewers], 1.4 [22,687 viewers], 1.4 [22,687 viewers], 2.0 [32,411 viewers]
WWE A.M. 8-03-08
Final Rating: 0.6 [9,723 viewers] 1 share
Quarter hours: 0.3 [4,862 viewers], 1.1 [17,826 viewers], 0.4 [6,482 viewers], 0.4 [6,482 viewers]
WWE Raw 8-04-08
Final Rating: 6.0 [97,232 viewers] 8 share
1st hour: 5.4 [87,509 viewers] 8 share
Quarter hours: 5.1 [82,647 viewers], 5.8 [93,991 viewers], 6.3 [102,094 viewers], 6.3 [102,094 viewers]
2nd hour: 5.9 [95,612 viewers] 8 share
Quarter hours: 6.1 [98,853 viewers], 5.8 [93,991 viewers], 6.2 [100,473 viewers], 6.9 [111,817 viewers]
Overrun: 6.3 [102,094 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.
----The start of the new Memphis Wrestling show is this Saturday morning at 11:00 AM. Ron will continue to do his reports along with the detailed ratings [either me or him] of every quarter of Memphis Wrestling. RRO will also feature a THUMBS UP and THUMBS DOWN Poll every week for people to vote from Saturday to Wednesday every week.
