How Was WWE RAW Viewership Following Recent Historic Lows?
Monday's Money In the Bank go-home edition of WWE RAW, featuring Braun Strowman winning a Fatal 4 Way main event over Kevin Owens, Finn Balor and Bobby Roode, drew 2.730 million viewers. While it's on the lower end of what the show has been doing this year, it is up 8% from last week's 2.525 million viewers, which was one of the lowest audiences in show history.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 2.751 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 2.594 million), the second hour drew 2.812 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 2.593 million) and the final hour drew 2.629 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 2.390 million).
RAW was #7 for the night in viewership on cable, behind Hannity, Tucker Carlson, The Ingraham Angle, Fox News at Night, The Story and Special Report. RAW was #2 in the 18-49 demographic on cable, behind Love & Hip-Hop.
There was no competition from the NHL or the NBA this week as both sets of playoffs are over.
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: 3.066 million viewers
May 7th Episode: 2.689 million viewers (post-Backlash episode)
May 14th Episode: 2.741 million (taped show from London)
May 21st Episode: 2.668 million viewers
March 28th Episode: 2.494 million viewers
June 4th Episode: 2.525 million viewers
June 11th Episode: 2.730 million viewers
June 18th Episode:
2017 Total: 156.971 million viewers
2017 Average: 3.018 million viewers per episode