WWE RAW Viewership Down With Payback Fallout

Monday's post-Payback live edition of WWE RAW, featuring fallout from Payback with Randy Orton defeating Keith Lee and Seth Rollins in the Triple Threat #1 Contender's Main Event, drew an average of 1.896 million viewers on the USA Network, according to Showbuzz Daily.

This is down 6.5% from last week's 2.028 million viewers for the post-SummerSlam episode.

For this week's show, the first hour drew 2.104 million viewers (last week's hour 1 – 2.140 million), the second hour drew 1.882 million viewers (last week's hour 2 – 2.045 million) and the final hour drew 1.703 million viewers (last week's hour 3 – 1.900 million), a 19% drop from hour 1.

This was the sixth-best overall viewership WrestleMania 36. The hour 1 viewership was the second-best since the post-WrestleMania episode. The number is down 24% from the same week last year.

RAW ranked #22 for the night in total viewership on cable, behind Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, The Ingraham Angle, 90 Day Fiance: Other Way, The Five, Rachel Maddow Show, FOX News at Night, Special Report, Outnumbered Overtime, Outnumbered, The Story, NBA Playoffs on TNT Round 1, NBA Playoffs on TNT Round 2, 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk, 90 Day Fiance: Strikes Back, Daily Briefing, All In, America's Newsroom, Last Word, America's Newsroom second airing, FOX & Friends, and Deadline: White House.

WWE ranked #5 for the night on the Cable Top 150, with an average 18-49 demographic rating of 0.58. The NBA Playoffs on TNT topped the night on the Cable Top 150, with a 1.19 rating in the 18-49 demographic, drawing 2.843 million viewers. Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News topped the night on cable in viewership with 4.932 million viewers, ranking #9 on the Top 150 with a 0.45 rating in the key demo.

The Bachelor on ABC drew an average of 1.508 million viewers on broadcast TV in the 8pm hour while The Neighborhood drew 3.486 million viewers on CBS, American Ninja Warrior drew 3.446 million viewers on NBC, FOX Movie Monday drew 1.180 million viewers on FOX and CW's Whose Line Is It Anyway drew 885,000 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: 2.028 million viewers with a 0.67 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-SummerSlam episode)
August 31 Episode: 1.900 million viewers with a 0.58 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Payback episode)
September 7 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