It's a tough decision for fans outside of North America to make each week. If a fan decides to record the show and watch it the following evening, or indeed watch a repeat later in the week, staying spoiler free of the happenings from the show is harder than ever. It used to be a case that you could just avoid the wrestling news sites for the next 24 hours or however long until you watched it, however now with Social Media being a part of many peoples daily lives that means fans need to stay away from these sites and by doing so miss out on any other news or friend updates in that time frame. It can be assumed that most WWE fans with a Twitter account will be at least following one wrestling based feed, and the likelihood is that if something big happened on the show that person they are following will comment on it to some degree. For years in the UK, Raw was aired on a Friday, and later a Thursday night at 9pm/10pm. In January 2005, after years of fan requests, it began to air live at 2am on a Tuesday morning. Before this, fans only option was to wait and watch the show 4 days after airing in the States. Nowadays, there is always that temptation for fans to stay up until the small hours to see what happens, particularly if they'd rather see events on the show first hand. You can imagine this must be even harder on younger fans, a demographic that WWE is now catering their main show towards, as with school the next morning it is highly unlikely they're parents will let them watch Raw in the middle of the night. Chances are, unless they wake up very early and watch it Tuesday morning before setting off to school, that they will have seen or heard some sort of spoiler before being able to watch the show for themselves. To look at another wrestling company by comparison, TNA Impact Wrestling and Pay Per View events are shown on a 3 day delay in the UK and bring in very good numbers. According to the Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB), the Impact show in the week ending June 17 2012 had 216,000 viewers, followed by a further 200,000 viewership figure for Slammiversary. The week before this, WWE Raw shown live had 171,000 viewers. Granted, both of the TNA offerings are on free TV in the UK which give those numbers an automatic head start, but it is possible to wonder how much of this is down to fans not having the option to watch Impact live (through the traditional method of the Television at least) and the fact that it is being shown for the first time in UK at a more prime hour. Would these figures be even higher if it weren't for spoilers through Social Networks? Click "next" below to read the final part...