Last night’s episode of Raw was a mixed bag in terms of ratings. While the total number of viewers was the lowest since the end of football season, the 18-49 and 18-34 demo ratings beat last week’s episode, which featured John Cena and Logan Paul.
Overall, the show managed to pull in an average of 1.71 million viewers over the course of three hours, with a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demo and a 0.35 in the 18-34 demo. While Raw did come in second place on cable, behind the Phoenix Suns vs. Golden State Warriors NBA game, which attracted 1.88 million viewers and a 0.59 in 18-49, it’s worth noting that this breaks a first-place streak for Raw that has been going strong for almost two months. The Warriors game also happened to air during the third hour of Raw, which likely contributed to the lower ratings.
However, Raw managed to beat out ESPN’s airing of the Dallas Mavericks vs. Memphis Grizzlies during the show’s first two hours, bringing in 1.22 million viewers and a 0.38 demo rating. FS1 also aired a World Baseball Classic game between USA and Canada, which managed to pull in 721,000 viewers and a 0.27 during hour three, and a game between Puerto Rico and Israel during the first two hours, which attracted 394,000 viewers and a 0.14.
When it comes to head-to-head competition with network TV, Raw managed to beat out everything in the 18-49 demo except for The Voice on NBC during the first two hours of the show. However, Raw did fall behind The Bachelor on ABC in the 18-34 demo.
Breaking down the numbers even further, Raw was tied with Below Deck for first place among women 18-49, came in second to the late NBA game in men 18-49 and 18-34, was tied with the late NBA game for first place among women 12-34, and came in second to the NBA game in men 12-34. Overall, Raw ended up coming in 10th place on cable for total viewers, behind the NBA game and eight different news shows.
