WWE RAW Viewership Up For The Backlash Go-Home Episode
Monday's WWE Backlash go-home edition of RAW, featuring the final red brand build for Sunday's pay-per-view with RAW Women's Champion Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair in the non-title main event, drew an average of 1.737 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Showbuzz Daily.
This is up 0.5% from last week's 1.728 million viewers, which was the second-lowest viewership in history, going back to the May 4 episode, which drew 1.686 million viewers.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 1.827 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 1.810 million), the second hour drew 1.790 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 1.8103 million) and the final hour drew 1.595 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 1.571 million).
This is the fourth-lowest RAW viewership in show history. The first hour viewership was the best since the May 11 episode where Becky Lynch announced her pregnancy, but it fell 13% from hour one to hour three.
RAW was #17 for the night in viewership on cable, behind Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, The Ingraham Angle, The Five, 90 Day Fiance: Tell All, The Story, Special Report, Rachel Maddow Show, Home Town, 90 Day Fiance: Other Way, Outnumbered, Last Word, FOX News at Night at 11pm, Cuomo Prime Time, America's Newsroom at 9am, and CNN Tonight at 10pm. WWE ranked #3 for the night on the Cable Top 150 with an average 18-49 demographic rating of 0.53, tied with Below Deck. 90 Day Fiance: Tell All topped the night on the Cable Top 150 with a 1.03 rating in the 18.49 demographic, drawing 3.359 million viewers. Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News topped the night on cable in viewership with 4.107 million viewers, ranking #9 on the Top 150 with a 0.33 rating in the key demo.
Network TV numbers aren't available as of this writing.
Below is our 2020 RAW Viewership Tracker:
January 6 Episode: 2.385 million viewers with a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 13 Episode: 2.030 million viewers with a 0.61 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 20 Episode: 2.380 million viewers with a 0.83 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 27 Episode: 2.402 million viewers with a 0.76 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Royal Rumble episode)
February 3 Episode: 2.168 million viewers with a 0.67 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 10 Episode: 2.337 million viewers with a 0.80 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 17 Episode: 2.437 million viewers with a 0.79 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 24 Episode: 2.210 million viewers with a 0.71 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 2 Episode: 2.256 million viewers with a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Super ShowDown episode)
March 9 Episode: 2.163 million viewers with a 0.69 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Elimination Chamber episode)
March 16 Episode: 2.335 million viewers with a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic (first-ever WWE Performance Center episode)
March 23 Episode: 2.006 million viewers with a 0.61 rating in the 18-49 demographic (second WWE PC episode)
March 30 Episode: 1.924 million viewers with a 0.58 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 6 Episode: 2.118 million viewers with a 0.70 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-WrestleMania 36 episode)
April 13 Episode: 1.913 million viewers with a 0.56 rating in the 18-49 demographic (return to live TV)
April 20 Episode: 1.842 million viewers with a 0.56 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 27 Episode: 1.817 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 4 Episode: 1.686 million viewers with a 0.46 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 11 Episode: 1.919 million viewers with a 0.57 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Money In the Bank episode)
May 18 Episode: 1.757 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 25 Episode: 1.735 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Memorial Day episode)
June 1 Episode: 1.728 million viewers with a 0.49 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 8 Episode: 1.737 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 15 Episode:
2019 Total: 125.746 million viewers over 52 episodes
2019 Average: 2.418 million viewers per 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