WWE RAW Viewership Down Slightly With College Football Competition
Monday's WWE RAW episode, featuring more King of the Ring matches plus RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch and SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley vs. WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross in the main event, drew an average of 2.507 million viewers, according to Showbuzz Daily.
This is down 0.8% from last week's 2.528 million viewers.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 2.638 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 2.637 million), the second hour drew 2.557 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 2.686 million) and the final hour drew 2.326 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 2.260 million).
RAW was #3 for the night in viewership on cable, behind College Football on ESPN and Weather Channel Live for Hurricane Dorian coverage. College Football topped the night in viewership with 5.599 million viewers, ranking #1 on the Top 150. RAW was #2 in the 18-49 demographic on the Cable Top 150 this week, for the second week in a row.
The Bachelor In Paradise on ABC drew 4.015 million viewers on broadcast TV in the 8pm hour while The Neighborhood drew 3.358 million viewers on CBS, American Ninja Warrior drew 4.469 million viewers on NBC, So You Think You Can Dance? drew 1.830 million viewers on Fox and CW's Penn & Teller show drew 909,000 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: 2.405 million viewers
June 10 Episode: 2.125 million viewers (post-Super ShowDown episode)
June 17 Episode: 2.235 million viewers
June 24 Episode: 2.275 (post-Stomping Grounds episode)
July 1 Episode: 2.496 million viewers
July 8 Episode: 2.352 million viewers
July 15 Episode: 2.453 million viewers (post-Extreme Rules episode)
July 22 Episode: 3.093 million viewers (RAW Reunion episode)
July 29 Episode: 2.321 million viewers
August 5 Episode: 2.473 million viewers
August 12 Episode: 2.729 million viewers (post-SummerSlam episode)
August 19 Episode: 2.534 million viewers
August 26 Episode: 2.528 million viewers
September 2 Episode: 2.507 million viewers
September 9 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