: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:08 am  

Donald Trump delivered excitement to fans both in Green Bay's Resch Centre, and to the millions of viewers in the WWE Universe, in his first - and ultimately, only - night in charge of WWE's flagship program, Monday Night Raw.

The ratings are in, and Monday's commercial-free edition of Raw delivered an incredible 4.5 coverage household rating / 7 share in 4,475,000 TV households with 6,813,000 total viewers (persons 2+).

This household rating is up 25 percent versus the last two-hour episode of Raw on June 8, which posted a 3.6 coverage household rating / 6 share in 3,582,000 TV households with 5,460,000 total viewers.

Monday night's 6,813,000 total viewers made Raw the most watched episode in more than seven years (since March 25, 2002, which held WWE's first-ever Draft).

That was the up side, one of the bad sides was that WWE shares on the stock market went down because of people really believing Trump had bought RAW.

It's the commercial free aspect that bumped those ratings though as people wouldn't have been channel flicking.

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:18 am  

Why was it commercial-free by the way? When I first read this I thought it was very worrying for them i.e. because advertising revenue (presumably) is a big source of income to them, or is there a logical explanation?

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:04 am  

Roofs wrote:

Why was it commercial-free by the way? When I first read this I thought it was very worrying for them i.e. because advertising revenue (presumably) is a big source of income to them, or is there a logical explanation?

kfc or kgc paid for it in much the same way ppvs are sole sponsored

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:07 am  

Mutts wrote:

kfc or kgc paid for it in much the same way ppvs are sole sponsored

Oh right, cool, different way of doing things eh. Bet it made the show at least 1/2 hour shorter though!

Can't believe Orton v HHH - how many times eh?!

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:45 pm  

Roofs wrote:

Why was it commercial-free by the way? When I first read this I thought it was very worrying for them i.e. because advertising revenue (presumably) is a big source of income to them, or is there a logical explanation?

aparently it was a test case to see if ratings levels staid up without the opportunity to go flicking during the 20 advert breaks they have on the us version of raw, if they saw a big enough difference they were considering doing it again in future.

like i say though, it was a good test case.

: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:54 pm  

RDW Gemtec Arena Hull 5th july the line up so far kick off 6:30

•Tag Team Championship
•Flight Club vs. Project Ego

•Women's Match
•Sweet Saraya vs. Awesome Kong

•European Championship
•Jody Fleisch vs. The Zebra Kid

•England vs. Scotland - Flag Match
•Andy "Boy" Simmonz vs. Lionheart

•Best of Three Falls
•Doug Williams vs. Johnny Kidd

•Ladder Match - Regional Championship
•SpUd vs. Joey Hayes vs. Bubblegum vs. Zak Zodiac

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:28 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Gutted about Candice, hopefully she'll go back to doing dirty photos.

link

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:05 pm  

THE EXPERT wrote:

link

wouldnt surprise me tbh

but if she doesnt she would be in tna like the rest of them

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:09 pm  

Danny 2 wrote:

wouldnt surprise me tbh

but if she doesnt she would be in tna like the rest of them

That's my bet.

As long as she doesn't try to overshadow Tara.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:34 pm  

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