Posted By: A-Ron (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 06:18 PM
EPIC...oh forget it
Posted By: Lemon (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 06:41 PM
Another good showing against the Olympics, even if NBC didn't have Michael Phelps to suck people in with this time. If they can keep this number relatively level next week on Sci-Fi, that'll be even more encouraging.
Posted By: Texas Kelly (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 06:43 PM
Decent rating against a subpar Olympic night. I can see next week going down of course because of it being on Sci-Fi and the following because of the Labor Day holiday as usual.
Of course, my comment is going to go over the heads of all the people who think the words _P_C F__L sound so cool.
Posted By: Kevin F. (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 06:53 PM
Epic... well, never mind. That's not bad- improvement since last week and the Olympics are still going on.
Posted By: cyks (Registered) on August 19, 2008 at 06:55 PM
What a shitty rating!!!!!
Sincerely, the K-Marks
Posted By: MMMbop,Spike, & Steve-O (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 08:01 PM
Up from last weeks 3.1.
I'm sure the rating on Sci-Fi will score lower next week.. but I expect the reply on USA straight after to score a decent rating...
Posted By: MMMBop (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 08:14 PM
Having the ratings be in the 3's instead of the 7's and 8's like they were about 10 years ago = EPIC FAIL!
Posted By: K-Money (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 08:23 PM
EPIC FAIL!
Posted By: From 5s and 6s to mid 3s (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 08:58 PM
A failure of epic proportions.
Posted By: WWE is for kids now (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 08:59 PM
"Having the ratings be in the 3's instead of the 7's and 8's like they were about 10 years ago = EPIC FAIL!"
Raw reached the 8s ONE TIME, 7s a handful of times. Raw's typical ratings in 1999-2000 were 5s and 6s, not 7s and 8s.
Posted By: Guest#7999 (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 09:10 PM
they'll never be in the 7 or 8s again and it's not wwe's fault, it's the way media works now. People tivo things or go online and watch things later. Look at the ratings on everything except stuff that is shoved down your throat by the station's news outlets making you think they are important (American Idol, Dancing with the Stars). Nothing else will get that many viewers. The Nielsen ratings system is dated and doesn't work with today's viewers.
Posted By: the temp (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 09:15 PM
For the three of you idiots above me.
Shut the hell up, honestly, Epic Fail is not funny. 10 years ago, Raw did not score 7's and 8's, it scored 2's to 4's.
Posted By: Sign Guy (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 09:21 PM
What a faliure after their big ppv! i guess peopel that something else to watch won't watch this shit product!
Posted By: Brother Bob Onit (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 09:28 PM
EPIC FAIL!!!
Posted By: where's the attitude? (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 09:35 PM
What a shitty rating!!!!!
Sincerely, the K-Marks
Posted By: MMMbop,Spike, & Steve-O (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 08:01 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! MMMbop replied after that in his usual WWE ass to mouth suckjob. Funny shit!
WWE ratings trolls=McMahon's Dinkleberries
Posted By: Randal Graves (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Oh dear, I guess now some illiterate who I insulted a few weeks ago will post "epic fail" under the name of 'T.g. Cock'! Damn you, Raw!
Posted By: T.G. Corke (Registered) on August 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM
yeah losing half your audience has nothing to do with the product thats really logical thinking there. People don't care about todays product as much as they did back then.
Sign guy if you want to be exact they were doing 5 to 7s from basically late 1998 to about late 2001.
Posted By: Guest#6415 (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM
is thank the good lord MNF is coming so the tools who love this show can sit and watch the rest of us are moving on.
Posted By: all I have to say (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM
"yeah losing half your audience has nothing to do with the product thats really logical thinking there. People don't care about todays product as much as they did back then."
Raw gets 5-5.5 million viewers in 2008. Raw never got 10 million viewers even at its peak.
Posted By: Guest#0172 (Guest) on August 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM
EPIC FRAIL!
Posted By: Lazyassbum (Guest) on August 20, 2008 at 04:10 AM
See what happins when Punk goes on last!
Posted By: steve0 (Guest) on August 20, 2008 at 07:32 AM
Yeah, this week and last weeks are low because of the Olympics. Then next week will be low because its on Sci-Fi. Then the week after will be low because of Labor Day. Then the week after that because its the week after Labor Day and people are tired. Then the week after that because its a full moon, and people generally don't watch TV when its brighter outside. Then the week after because a lot of video games came out. Then the week after because somebody spilled ketchup on the their shirt.
Don't worry Vince. Everyone still loves your product! We swear!
(we'd just rather do anything else than watch it)
Posted By: C (Guest) on August 20, 2008 at 08:20 AM
"Raw gets 5-5.5 million viewers in 2008. Raw never got 10 million viewers even at its peak. "
Nielsen ratings are actually pretty clear that a 1.0 is equivalent to 900,000 households watching. So a 3.3 rating would be, by that standard, if you can't do the math, a bit over 2.98 million viewers (3 = 2.7 million, 0.3 = 287,000 viewers). Buyrates are 1.0 = 450,000 buys. So, what this means is that 5-5.5 million people did not watch RAW this week or the weeks before.
At its peak RAW did not get 10 million either but the reason was that it was 12 million people or so divided between Nitro and RAW. From 1997-2001 the ratings were generally indicative of 12 1/2 million people. In 2008, ratings for RAW have indeed dropped over half from 2000 and earlier. Its just how the boom goes - once RAW creamed Monday Night Football before people realized baseball was boring and switched allegiances.
Safe to say with the roster we have now it'll never hit 10 million viewers unless a miracle happens.
Posted By: Black Scorpion (Guest) on August 20, 2008 at 07:06 PM
