With a presidential candidate's debate and a strong Monday Night Football game this past week, I had concerns about how good ratings would be for the shows. I was very surprised when I saw the great 6.0 rating that Smackdown drew going against the debate. SD averaged almost 100,000 viewers and for the most part gained viewers as the show went on. The debate drew great numbers as well (a 14.1 overall on Ch.5) but the debate’s ratings might have been better had it not been shown on 6 or 7 different channels. Smackdown was the 3rd most watched show last Friday night in Memphis with only Ch. 3 and Ch. 5’s debate ratings being higher. I guess technically it was the 2nd most watched show. Damn, this city loves wrestling! Next week it’s Smackdown to MYNetwork.
Thursday’s TNA Impact continued its upward swing with a 3.2 rating. I know they kind of fell off after their great summer of ratings but it looks like they are back on track. I’m real interested to see if the Memphis Tigers football game at UAB from last night will affect Impact’s numbers from last night. Memphis’ game was broadcast on CBS College Sports TV (aka CSTV and a Comcast cable channel). I say that because most wrestling fans are football fans and as you can see sometimes with MNF, wrestling’s numbers can be affected by a good football game.
Memphis Wrestling’s numbers have not moved too much from previous weeks. What they did do this past week was triple from the 1st quarter hour to the last but it was still less than 20,000 viewers total. You can’t shine a turd, ya’ know!
WWE RAW took a helluva nose-dive this week dropping over a point from the previous week. This is where Monday Night Football directly affected RAW’s numbers. This game this past week was the Steelers vs. Ravens. The MNF game almost doubled RAW’s rating as it drew an 8.2 . Now, Memphis has a HUGE contingent of Steelers fans living here and is probably the reason for RAW’s declined number. How is that so, you ask? In ’97when the TN. Titans were playing here in Memphis the last game of that season was against the Steelers and about 2/3rds of the crowd that day was Steelers fans. The Titans were supposed to play the next season here in Memphis, but the Titans’ owner Bud Adams got pissed at all the Memphis Steelers fans and moved the team to Nashville a year early. So, if the Steelers are playing on MNF, RAW’s numbers in Memphis has no chance.
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 ) 9-18-08
Final Rating: 3.2 ( 51,856 viewers ) 4 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 2.3 ( 37,272 viewers )
3.4 ( 55,097 )
3.4 ( 55,097 )
2.8 ( 45,374 )
2nd hour: 3.2 ( 51,856 viewers )
3.7 ( 59,959 )
3.3 ( 53,477 )
3.3 ( 53,477 )
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 9-26-08
Final Rating: 6.0 ( 97,230 viewers ) 9 share
Quarter hours:
1st hour: 5.6 ( 90,748 viewers )
5.1 ( 82,646 )
6.3 ( 102,092 )
6.1 ( 98,851 )
2nd hour: 6.7 ( 108,574 viewers )
6.0 ( 97,230 )
6.1 ( 98,851 )
6.3 ( 102,092 )
Memphis Wrestling 9-27-08
Final Rating: 0.8 ( 12,964 viewers ) 2 share
Quarter hours: 0.4 ( 6,482 viewers )
0.8 ( 12,964 )
1.0 ( 16,205 )
1.2 ( 19,446 )
TNA Impact Replay 9-27-08
Final Rating: 1.3 ( 21,067 viewers ) 2 share
WWE A.M. 9-28-08
Final Rating: 1.6 ( 25,928 viewers ) 4 share
WWE RAW 9-29-08
Final Rating: 4.3 ( 69,682 viewers ) 6 share
1st hour: 4.0 ( 64,820 viewers ) 5 share
Quarter hours: 4.2 ( 68,061 viewers )
3.4 ( 55,097 )
3.9 ( 63,200 )
4.7 ( 76,162 )
2nd hour: 4.5 (72,923 viewers ) 6 share
Quarter hours: 4.6 ( 74,543 viewers )
4.6 (74,543 )
4.4 ( 71,302 )
4.6 (74,543 )
Overrun: 4.6 (74,543 viewers )
----Ron Guidry works for a Memphis TV station and provides the rating analysis every week. He was formerly known as “The Penguin” with the old Kick Ass Wrestling promotio
