WWE RAW Averages Second-Lowest Viewership Of The Year For Memorial Day Episode
Monday's Memorial Day edition of WWE RAW, featuring WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins defeating Sami Zayn in the main event, drew an average of 2.190 million viewers, according to Showbuzz Daily. This is down 13% from last week's 2.521 million viewers for the post-Money In the Bank episode, and the second-lowest audience of 2019.
To compare, it was down 12.2% from the 2.494 million viewers for the 2018 Memorial Day show, which at the time was a new low for the year. The 2017 Memorial Day show averaged 2.613 million viewers, which was also a new low for 2017 at that point. The 2016 Memorial Day edition of RAW averaged 3.229 million viewers.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 2.265 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 2.681 million), the second hour drew 2.254 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 2.583 million) and the final hour drew 2.051 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 2.299 million).
This ends a three-week viewership increase for WWE's red brand show.
RAW topped the night at #1 in the Cable Top 150 18-49 demographic and in viewership.
The Bachelorette on ABC drew 4.666 million viewers on broadcast TV in the 8pm hour while The Neighborhood drew 3.668 million viewers on CBS, the NHL drew 5.251 million viewers on NBC, Beat Shazam drew 2.431 million viewers on Fox and CW's Howie Mandel show drew 935,000 viewers, all in the 8pm hour on broadcast TV.
Below is our 2019 RAW Viewership Tracker:
January 7 Episode: 2.324 million viewers
January 14 Episode: 2.722 million viewers
January 21 Episode: 2.462 million viewers
January 28 Episode: 2.703 million viewers (post-Royal Rumble episode)
February 4 Episode: 2.510 million viewers
February 11 Episode: 2.462 million viewers
February 18 Episode: 2.771 million viewers (post-Elimination Chamber episode)
February 25 Episode: 2.922 million viewers
March 4 Episode: 2.783 million viewers
March 11 Episode: 2.819 million viewers (post-Fastlane episode)
March 18 Episode: 2.695 million viewers
March 25 Episode: 2.589 million viewers
April 1 Episode: 2.639 million viewers
April 8 Episode: 2.923 million viewers (post-WrestleMania 35 episode)
April 15 Episode: 2.665 million viewers (Superstar Shakeup episode)
April 22 Episode: 2.374 million viewers
April 29 Episode: 2.158 million viewers
May 6 Episode: 2.244 million viewers
May 13 Episode: 2.349 million viewers (taped episode from London)
May 20 Episode: 2.521 million viewers (post-Money In the Bank episode)
May 27 Episode: 2.190 million viewers (Memorial Day episode)
June 3 Episode:
2018 Total: 149.628 million viewers over 53 episodes
2018 Average: 2.823 million viewers per episode
2017 Total: 156.971 million viewers over 52 episodes
2017 Average: 3.018 million viewers per episode