WWE RAW Viewership Sees Big Increase With No Football, Brock Lesnar's Return

By Marc Middleton

Monday's WWE RAW, featuring an appearance by Brock Lesnar and a six-man main event with Braun Strowman, WWE United States Champion Chris Jericho and WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, drew 3.271 million viewers. This is up 12.5% from last week's 2.907 million viewers. This week's episode was the first not to be opposed by football since late August.

For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.519 million viewers, the second hour drew 3.221 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.074 million viewers.

RAW was #5 on cable for the night in viewership, behind the NBA on TNT, The O'Reilly Factor, Special Report and Tucker Carlson. RAW was #3 in the 18-49 demographic this week, behind the NBA and Love & Hip-Hop. The NBA drew less than 5 million viewers.

Below is our 2017 RAW Viewership Tracker:

January 2nd Episode: 3.046 million viewers
January 9th Episode: 2.907 million viewers
January 16th Episode: 3.271 million viewers
January 23rd Episode:

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