WWE RAW Bottoms Out With All-Time Low Viewership

WWE RAW SmackDown

Viewership data is in for Monday’s WWE RAW and Friday’s SmackDown. Here is the breakdown of the live and same-night DVR viewership, courtesy of ShowbuzzDaily:

RAW Viewership

Monday’s edition of WWE RAW averaged 1.686 million viewers, which is down from the 1.814 million viewers last week. This marks the lowest viewership in the 27 year history of the program.

Here is the hourly viewership breakdown:

  • Hour 1: 1.807 million, 0.48 in the 18-49 Demo
  • Hour 2: 1.691 million, 0.46 in the 18-49 Demo
  • Hour 3: 1.560 million, 0.43 in the 18-49 Demo

RAW featured RAW Tag Team Champions The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) vs. The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar) in a non-title match, Brendan Vink & Shane Thorne (w/MVP) vs. Cedric Alexander & Ricochet, WWE Champion Drew McIntyre vs. Murphy in a non-title match, and a Last Chance Gauntlet Match that featured.

SmackDown Viewership

SmackDown averaged 1.885 million viewers on FOX in Orlando, Florida at the WWE Performance Center. This is down from the 2.005 million viewers that the show did for the previous week’s episode of SmackDown.

The show averaged 1.919 million viewers in the fast nationals, which was down from the 2.014 million viewers a week ago. This number measured the top metered markets. 

The first hour drew 1.941 million viewers while the second hour did 1.896 million viewers. For comparison, the first show of last week’s show did 2.050million viewers while the second hour did 1.978 million viewers. 

SmackDown pulled in a 0.50 rating in the 18-49 demos, the same from the 0.50 rating as last week’s show.