Raw vs. SmackDown Live: Which show included more wrestling (Oct. 3 - 4)?

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 October 3, 2016 edition of Raw:

• 5m 30s: TJ Perkins vs Brian Kendrick (1 commercial break)
• 1m 42s: Chase Silver vs Braun Strowman
• 2m 48s: Sami Zayn vs Titus O’Neil
• 3m 24s: Golden Truth vs The Club
• 13m 26s: New Day vs Owens and Jericho (1 break)
• 4m 38s: Rich Swann vs Tony Nese
• 1m 55s: Cesaro and Sheamus vs Carridy and White
• 10m 08s: Charlotte vs Sasha Banks (1 break)

Here is the amount of television time given to each match on the October 4, 2016 edition of SmackDown Live:

• 4m 19s: Kane vs Bray Wyatt
• 1m 50s: Nikki Bella vs Alexa Bliss
• 4m 04s: Becky and Nikki vs Carmella and Alexa (began during break)
• 3m 52s: Hype Bros vs Vaudevillains
• 1m 18s: Jason Jordan vs Jey Uso
• 4m 49s: Jack Swagger vs Baron Corbin (1 break)

Results for Week 11

Raw total televised content: 2h 14m 31s
Raw televised wrestling time: 43m 31s (8 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 32.4%

SmackDown Live total televised content: 1h 21m 56s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 20m 12s (6 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 24.7%

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: 24h 25m 46s
Raw televised wrestling time: 8h 31m 02s (90 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 34.9%

SmackDown Live total televised content: 15h 04m 28s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 4h 27m 59s (51 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 29.6%

Combined total televised content: 39h 30m 14s
Combined televised wrestling time: 12h 59m 01s (141 matches)
Combined wrestling time percentage: 32.9%