Big Drop For This Week's WWE RAW Viewership With Ten-Woman Main Event, GRR Hype, Shakeup Fallout
Monday's WWE RAW, featuring a big 10-woman main event, drew 3.104 million viewers. This is down 14% from last week's 3.622 million viewers for the 2018 Superstar Shakeup episode. This week's show featured an appearance by WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and the final hype for Friday's Greatest Royal Rumble event.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.283 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 3.634 million), the second hour drew 3.210 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 3.754 million) and the final hour drew 2.819 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 3.479 million).
RAW was #4 for the night in viewership this week, behind two airings of the NBA Playoffs and Hannity. RAW was #3 in the 18-49 demographic this week, behind the NBA.
The NBA topped the night with more than 7 million viewers across both games.
Below is our 2018 RAW Viewership Tracker:
January 1st Episode: 2.865 million viewers
January 8th Episode: 2.766 million viewers
January 15th Episode: 3.250 million viewers
January 22nd Episode: 4.530 million viewers (RAW 25)
January 29th Episode: 3.395 million viewers (Post-Royal Rumble episode)
February 5th Episode: 3.055 million viewers
February 12th Episode: 3.105 million viewers
February 19th Episode: 3.282 million viewers
February 26th Episode: 3.180 million viewers (post-Elimination Chamber episode)
March 5th Episode: 3.099 million viewers
March 12th Episode: 3.352 million viewers
March 19th Episode: 3.327 million viewers
March 26th Episode: 3.366 million viewers
April 2nd Episode: 3.357 million viewers
April 9th Episode: 3.921 million viewers (post-WrestleMania 34 episode)
April 16th Episode: 3.622 million viewers (Superstar Shakeup episode)
April 23rd Episode: 3.104 million viewers
April 30th Episode:
2017 Total: 156.971 million viewers
2017 Average: 3.018 million viewers per episode