WWE RAW Viewership Down Going Into SummerSlam
Monday's WWE SummerSlam go-home edition of RAW, featuring Week 3 of RAW Underground and the final build for Sunday's SummerSlam pay-per-view, drew an average of 1.643 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Showbuzz Daily.
This is down 4.6% from last week's 1.722 million viewers. This is also the fourth lowest viewership in the history of the show. The audience was down 35% from the same week last year.
For this week's show, the first hour drew 1.730 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 1.811 million), the second hour drew 1.697 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 1.754 million) and the final hour drew 1.502 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 1.610 million).
This is the second lowest third hour viewership in the history of the show.
RAW ranked #33 for the night in viewership on cable, behind Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, five CNN airings of the Democratic National Convention, DNC coverage on MSNBC, The Five , DNC coverage on FOX News, The Ingraham Angle, Special Report, The Story, Reidout, FOX & Friends, two airings of 11th Hour, three airings of the NBA Playoffs on ESPN, 90 Day Fiance: Other Way, two airings of Your World, 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk, 90 Day Fiance: Strikes Back, Outnumbered, Bill Hemmer Reports, two airings of America's Newsroom, Beat, Deadline: White House, and Below Deck.
WWE ranked #11 for the night on the Cable Top 150, with an average 18-49 demographic rating of 0.48. The 9pm airing of the NBA Playoffs on ESPN topped the night on the Cable Top 150, with a 1.01 rating in the 18-49 demographic, drawing 2.278 million viewers. CNN's 10pm airing of the DNC topped the night on cable in viewership with 4.848 million viewers, ranking #2 on the Top 150 with a 0.92 rating in the key demo.
Holey Moley on ABC drew an average of 2.110 million viewers on broadcast TV in the 8pm hour while The Neighborhood drew 3.521 million viewers on CBS, American Ninja Warrior drew 2.445 million viewers on NBC, 911 drew 2.205 million viewers on FOX and CW's Whose Line Is It Anyway drew 926,000 viewers, all in the 8pm hour on broadcast TV.
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: 1.939 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Backlash episode)
June 22 Episode: 1.922 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Championship Edition)
June 29 Episode: 1.735 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 6 Episode: 1.687 million viewers with a 0.49 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 13 Episode: 1.561 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 20 Episode: 1.628 million viewers with a 0.46 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Extreme Rules episode)
July 27 Episode: 1.617 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 3 Episode: 1.715 million viewers with a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 10 Episode: 1.722 million viewers with a 0.47 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 17 Episode: 1.643 million viewers with a 0.48 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 24 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