WWE Raw Rating Drops Close To Record Low For 27 April
These empty arena era numbers are getting seriously depressing.
Another week, another dip in WWE Raw's viewership, with the former flagship coming dangerously close to hitting an all-time low for the 27 April show.
Per data from Showbuzz Daily, Raw dipped from the previous week's 1.84 million viewers to 1.82 million this past Monday. This is the lowest non-holiday number in the show's history but not quite the all-time record, which is still held by the 24 December 2018 episode's 1.78 million.
Here's how the hourly breakdown looked:-
Hour one: 1.95 million.
Hour two: 1.89 million.
Hour three: 1.62 million.
Looking at the trends, and given that the empty arena era isn't ending anytime soon, one has to imagine that Raw will soon dip below that low water mark. Grim.
As far as the key 18-49 demographic is concerned, there's more bad news. Raw fell from a 0.56 to 0.51 - a drop of 29% on the previous year, which is notable as that episode did awful numbers against live NBA playoff coverage. It should be noted, however, that 27 of the 29 shows that beat Raw in the demo were news shows, most of which would have been covering the ongoing global health crisis.