WWE Raw ratings for Dec. 19 TLC fallout episode average 4.3 million viewers
by Geno Mrosko on Dec 20, 2011 8:45 PM EST
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The ratings are in for last night's (Dec. 19, 2011) episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, which featured all the fallout from the TLC pay-per-view (PPV) event this past Sunday night.
WWE Raw on Monday, December 19 scored a 2.92 rating the night after TLC. It marks the third straight week Raw has scored below a 3.00 rating.
Raw averaged 4.30 million viewers overall. Viewership was nearly identical to the final two hours of last week's three-hour Slammys Raw. The first hour averaged 4.43 million viewers and the second hour slipped to an average of 4.17 million viewers.
This is nine weeks in a row that viewership has dropped from the first hour to the second, something that may not seem like a big deal on the surface but is actually a quite troubling trend. Shows are built on an angle in the first hour that leads into something in the second, namely the main event. If folks are bailing early on, that means they aren't being effective in their execution and they aren't keeping interest.
Monday Night Football featured a pretty good match-up last night between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Francisco 49ers, both playoff teams this year. The game was delayed due to a power outage, so it started about 20 minutes later than normal and also had a brief delay mid-game.
The History channel's Pawn Stars and American Pickers are two giants WWE just can't figure out a way to topple. We can love CM Punk, Daniel Bryan and Zack Ryder all we want but it sure seems like more folks love Rick Harrison and the Old Man a whole lot more.
I keep waiting for the turnaround, considering we're inching closer and closer to big events like the Royal Rumble and the build to WrestleMania 28. Seeing these numbers, I'll just have to keep waiting.
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What does it take to get a good wrestling stable in the WWE, geesh!
The Nexus wasn’t half bad, but now we could use these 3 men featured in the picture above for a much more powerful alliance, Ziggler, Miz, ADR, Brodus Clay & maybe a younger kid—Se!( Cough Cough) Seth(Cough) Roll (Cough!) Seth Rollins! (Cough Cough)
I buried Banago.
A. Silva
What does it take to get a good wrestling stable in the WWE, geesh!
The same thing it takes to get a good stable anywhere. Don’t job the stable out until the proper times. The only WWE stable that actually met proper booking was Evolution, and the guy behind Evolution had unlimited freedom in booking his stable. It wasn’t a cooincidence that Evolution was the only good WWE stable in the last decade (DX doesn’t count).
i think it has nothing to do
with the opener not working or the main event lacking
i think it has more to do with the content in the middle being lame and boring, it gets to a level where your casual fan its not gonna be able to watch anymore of that crap, specially if they can change channel and watch something more entertaining for them
they can have a mania main event on raw and i dont think its gonna give em better ratings because all the shit they put in the middle of the show is literally shit
There probably isn't going to be a rebound in WWE ratings for awhile.
WWE has done a pretty thorough job at making all the wrestlers who aren’t Randy Orton, John Cena, Triple H, Undertaker, and CM Punk look like unworthy jobbers. Everyone else who hasn’t been made to look like total losers by WWE has either retired (Shawn Michaels, Edge, Batista) or left the company (Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho).
It will take a few years before WWE can turn this around, and they have no one to blame but themselves.
I didn't watch for obvious reasons
I flipped back and forth during commercials and the power outage so I saw bits and pieces, but nothing really caught my attention away to keep me from flipping back to the game.
Maslow's theory of higher needs does not apply to Patrick Willis. He only has two needs: tackling people and finding people to tackle.
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