Monday’s RAW scored a 4.2 cable rating (6.2 share), up from last week’s 4.1, with hours of 4.0 and 4.3. JR’s Webmaster added these notes on JR’s blog: RAW “delivered 3.8 million households, and 5.4 million persons 2+. Raw delivered a 4.0 rating or more in six consecutive quarter hours Monday night.” This is a good number, and USA Network has ads all over the advertising and cable trade magazines this week hyping up its #1 status for 2006, including a photo of John Cena plus other “characters” from its key shows.
Saturday’s TNA replay got a 0.7 cable rating (1.4 share), and Sunday’s AM RAW got a 0.7 cable rating (3.1 share).
Tuesday’s ECW got a 1.7 cable rating for the debut of Vince McMahon, up from last week’s 1.5.
CORRECTED: Tuesday’s WSX official debut, going head to head with the second half of ECW, scored a 0.78 cable rating — much higher than its usual rating for the timeslot — in its official premiere. WSX on MTV got a .44 rating last Friday (1/26) for the unadvertised sneak preview and a .43 at 12:30 AM on 1/31, bringing the total not including online views to over 2 million viewers.
Last night’s TNA iMPACT! got a 1.0 cable rating.
In other TV news, RAW and TNA are going head to head a few times the week of February 12. Here’s the full RAW and TNA schedule for that week (head-to-head shows are in bold):
– TNA Special on Spike – Monday 2/12 from 9 to 11 PM
– RAW on mun2 (English) – Wednesday 2/14 from 8 to 10 PM
– TNA Special replay on Spike – Thursday 2/15 from 7 to 9 PM
– RAW on USA – Thursday 2/15 from 8 to 10 PM
– TNA on Spike – Thursday 2/15 from 9 to 10 PM
– RAW replay on USA – Saturday 2/17 from 11 PM to 1 AM
– TNA replay on Spike – Saturday 2/17 from 11 PM to 12 AM
– AM RAW on USA – Sunday 2/18 (Saturday night) from 1 to 2 AM
– RAW on mun2 (Spanish) – Sunday 2/18 from 4 to 6 PM
Credit: Nielsen Media Research, Pro Wrestling Insider, PWTorch.com, WrestlingObserver.com
