More Fabulous Moolah passing mentions + WWE ratings in the UK notes

Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 5:13 PM EST

Wesley Smith sent this in: In the newest Sports Illustrated, they have a brief mention of the passing of the Fabulous Moolah. It mentions the origin of her name and how she was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1995.

Bobby Strouss also sent word that Dennis Miller mentioned Moolah's passing on his new show "Sports Unfiltered" on the Versus network.

Dave N. sent these UK ratings notes in: Here are the UK ratings for the week ending 28th October 2007.

RAW:
U.S. Airdate: 15th October
Monday 22nd October - 5pm showing: 43,000 (up by at least 17,000 viewers)

U.S. Airdate 22nd October
Thursday 25th October - 10pm showing: 62,000 (up by 5,000 viewers)

SmackDown:
U.S. Airdate 19th October
Tuesday 23rd October - 5pm showing: 33,000 (up by at least 6,000 viewers)

U.S. Airdate 26th October
Friday 26th October - 10pm showing: 56,000 (up by 18,000 viewers)
Saturday 27th October - 10am showing: 45,000 (up by at least 17,000 viewers)

No ECW ratings. The lowest Sky Sports 3 rating (the channel which it normally airs) is 32,000, meaning ECW broadcasts got below that figure. BARB only records the top ten ratings for each channel, therefore an exact figure for this week is unknown. The previous week, ECW got 33,000 viewers in it's first showing, so in any case, the ratings for ECW, unlike RAW and SmackDown have decreases.

Cyber Sunday:
U.S. Airdate 28th October
Sunday 28th October - LIVE showing: 92,000 (up on the Unforgiven LIVE figure by 20,000 viewers)

Danny sent this in regarding UK ratings: I just ready the piece submitted to you about the ratings over here in the UK (posted here). And I thought it was only right to point out that that Smackdown out performing Raw over here may be right looking at those numbers. But as the guy said, the figures are for the first airing only, which would definitely favour Smackdown which airs at 10pm on Fridays, where as Raw airs at 2am on Tuesday morning live. To say that Smackdown out does Raw weekly based on the first airing figures alone is a little ludicrous, as I'm fairly confident that Raw would likely do just as well if not better if it's 10pm repeat slot was taken into account. Anyway, just thought this might put those figures into perspective a little more.