Last night’s RAW was slightly up from the previous week’s 3.6 cable rating, with a 3.7 and a 6 share. This is below the three-month average for the show. RAW averaged 3.4 million households and 4.8 million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research by way of PWTorch.com.
Segment-by-segment, opening scored a 3.7, then dropped from 9:15-9:45pm, then finishing at 3.7 for 9:45 – 10:00. The 10pm quarter hit 4.1 during the Randy Orton/Johnny Nitro/Chris Masters/Super Crazy/Carlito/Jeff Hardy promo/brawl, dipping down to a 3.7 for the actual match. The show grew to a 3.8 rating in the final quarter hour, and the overrun (DX/Cena vs. Edge/Cade/Murdoch) getting a high rating at 4.3. (UPDATE: PWInsider has added that RAW’s hourly breakdown was 3.6 and 3.9, and that the weekend’s AM RAW show did a 0.9 cable rating with a 3.8 share.)
In comparison, Monday Night Football was up to a 10.6 from last week’s 9.3 cable rating, but RAW beat MNF in the males 6-11, males 12-17 and people 6-11 and 12-17 categories.
In other news:
– Tonight’s ECW is listed in cable guide/menus as “taped” and NOT automatically recording if you have your DVR set to “new episodes only,” so make sure you manually record tonight’s episode (or just set your recurring recording option to ‘all’ episodes, not just ‘new’ ones).
– WWE.com has confirmed that Trish Stratus’ retirement vacates the WWE Women’s Championship here. Also on WWE.com are stories on Shawn Michaels being cheered in Montreal and ECW’s plans to be at Survivor Series.
– The Smackdown people who were at the combined ECW/SD house shows over the weekend were reportedly very impressed with ECW wrestlers’ work and crowd heat, according to PWInsider. The Niagra show was supposedly very pro-ECW/anti-SD as well.
– WrestlingObserver.com is reporting that Steve Austin will be the voice of one of the cars in For Tales of the Rat Fink, a Canadian documentary that will also include other celebrity car-lovers.
– Also from the Observer, Chavo Guerrero Sr. organizing a benefit golf tournament for the Eddie Guerrero Trust Fund, in order to raise money for Eddie’s daughters to go to college. It takes place on October 21 at Summerfield Crossings Golf Course in Tampa, with a public autograph session on the 20th to raise money at Cherry’s Riverview Locations. Roddy Piper, Greg Valentine, Jack Brisco, Haku, Brian Blair, Barry Windham, Kendall Windham, Blackjack Mulligan, Kanyon, Dory Funk, Terry Funk and Larry Zbyszko are scheduled to participate, and more information can be found by calling 813-610-6800.
