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It’s a new era in WWE, and there is an ongoing competition between the Raw and SmackDown Live brands. This column is focused on how much televised wrestling content is seen on each brand when commercial time is removed from the equation.
Televised match times
Here is the amount of television time given to each match on the September 19, 2016 edition of Raw:
- 8m 19s: Seth Rollins vs Rusev (1 commercial break)
- 1m 51s: Sin Cara vs Braun Strowman
- 8m 07s: Charlotte and Dana vs Sasha and Bayley (1 break)
- 1m 17s: Gary Graham vs Bo Dallas
- 6m 07s: Cesaro vs Sheamus (1 break)
- 5m 29s: 10-man tag team match
- 11m 41s: Swann vs Metalik vs Alexander vs Kendrick (1 break)
- 10m 39s: Kevin Owens vs Roman Reigns (1 break)
Here is the amount of television time given to each match on the September 20, 2016 edition of SmackDown Live:
- 6m 42s: American Alpha vs The Usos (1 break)
- 2m 47s: Apollo Crews vs Baron Corbin
- 13m 01s: The Miz vs Dolph Ziggler (1 break)
- 2m 22s: Randy Orton vs Erick Rowan
- 0m 32s: Naomi and Nikki vs Carmella and Natalya
- 6m 54s: Dean Ambrose vs John Cena (1 break)
Results for Week 9
Raw total televised content: 2h 13m 48s
Raw televised wrestling time: 53m 30s (8 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 40.0%
SmackDown Live total televised content: 1h 21m 55s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 32m 18s (6 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 39.4%
Overall results for the brand split
Here are the overall results for the brand split thus far, which began on July 25th:
Raw total televised content: 19h 59m 20s
Raw televised wrestling time: 6h 52m 41s (75 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 34.4%
SmackDown Live total televised content: 12h 21m 32s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 3h 40m 42s (42 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 29.8%
Combined total televised content: 32h 20m 52s
Combined televised wrestling time: 10h 33m 23s (117 matches)
Combined wrestling time percentage: 32.6%