Viewership For The Extreme Rules Fallout Episode Of RAW Rises Up

This week’s episode of RAW was able to generate an average of 2.866 million viewers. This is up 16% from last week’s 2.470 million viewers, which was a new viewership low for 2018 and the lowest RAW viewership in history, coming in under the 2.478 million viewers from the September 26th, 2016 episode, which went up against the Trump – Clinton Presidential Debate and Monday Night Football. This week’s episode of RAW was the fallout episode of Sunday’s Extreme Rules PPV Event with Bobby Lashley vs. Seth Rollins vs. Elias in the main event.
For this week’s show, the first hour drew 3.118 million viewers (last week’s hour 1 – 2.582 million), the second hour drew 2.859 million viewers (last week’s hour 2 – 2.508 million) and the final hour drew 2.622 million viewers (last week’s hour 3 – 2.320 million), a big 16% drop from the first hour. The first hour was the highest rated first hour since the April 16th episode, which featured the Superstar Shakeup.
RAW was #7 for the night in viewership on cable, behind the Home Run Derby on ESPN, Hannity, The Rachel Maddow Show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Last Word and Special Report. RAW was #2 in the 18-49 demographic, behind the Home Run Derby. The Derby also topped the night in viewership with 5.567 million viewers. The Bachelorette drew 6.312 million viewers on broadcast TV in the 8PM hour while TKO drew 2.573 million viewers, American Ninja Warrior drew 5.192 million viewers, So You Think You Can Dance drew 2.419 million viewers and Penn &Teller drew 1.398 million viewers, all in the 8PM hour on broadcast TV.

Below are RAW’s viewership numbers for the rest of 2018:
– January 1st Episode: 2.865 million viewers
– January 8th Episode: 2.766 million viewers
– January 15th Episode: 3.250 million viewers

– January 22nd Episode: 4.530 million viewers (RAW 25)
– January 29th Episode: 3.395 million viewers (Royal Rumble Fallout Episode)
– February 5th Episode: 3.055 million viewers

– February 12th Episode: 3.105 million viewers
– February 19th Episode: 3.282 million viewers (Elimination Chamber Go-Home Episode)
– February 26th Episode: 3.180 million viewers (Elimination Chamber Fallout Episode)
– March 5th Episode: 3.099 million viewers
– March 12th Episode: 3.352 million viewers
– March 19th Episode: 3.327 million viewers
– March 26th Episode: 3.366 million viewers
– April 2nd Episode: 3.357 million viewers (WrestleMania 34 Go-Home Episode)
– April 9th Episode: 3.921 million viewers (WrestleMania 34 Fallout Episode)
– April 16th Episode: 3.622 million viewers (Superstar Shakeup Episode)
– April 23rd Episode: 3.104 million viewers
– April 30th Episode: 3.066 million viewers (Backlash Go-Home Episode)
– May 7th Episode: 2.689 million viewers (Backlash Fallout Episode)
– May 14th Episode: 2.741 million (Taped Episode From London)
– May 21st Episode: 2.668 million viewers
– May 28th Episode: 2.494 million viewers
– June 4th Episode: 2.525 million viewers
– June 11th Episode: 2.730 million viewers (MITB Go-Home Episode)
– June 18th Episode: 2.903 million viewers (MITB Fallout Episode)
– June 25th Episode: 2.663 million viewers
– July 2nd Episode: 2.707 million viewers
– July 9th Episode: 2.470 million viewers (Extreme Rules Go-Home Episode)
– July 16th Episode: 2.866 million viewers (Extreme Rules Fallout Episode)
2017 Total: 156.971 million viewers
2017 Average: 3.018 million viewers per episode
Source: ShowBuzz Daily