As noted, Raw this time last year was doing 3.79 million viewers, while this year it has been doing 3.27. That margin of success and failure is hardly a canyon. It is a .52 difference, which is definitely a bridgeable gap. Once the big sports games go away, once Mania season kicks in, you'd expect those fans to come back to the product. Sure, it isn't ideal, this is still a significant number, and obviously you have to go back to 1997 to find a number the same. But crisis isn't the word for .52 being knocked off 3.79 million. It would only be a crisis if a million people stopped watching, and if there wasn't any major sports on the same night, or if the number was during Mania season. Right now, WWE will have a degree of calmness, and a self-assuredness that numbers will pick up once this autumn season is over.
