from Ian Hamilton:
For the month of January (BARB rushed out a month’s worth of data it seems)…
From Bravo:
Impact for December 31 – airing on January 2; drew 57,000 viewers
Impact for January 7 – airing January 9; drew 68,000 viewers (+11,000)
Impact for January 14 – airing January 16 drew 103,000 viewers (+25,000 on the prior week)
Impact for January 21 – airing January 23 drew 83,000 viewers (-20,000)
Impact for January 28 – airing January 30 drew 103,000 viewers
So Dixie Carter’s Tweet about record ratings in the UK in January wasn’t a load of BS. For once. Now, comparing against WWE on Sky…
Raw from December 28 – drew 51,000 viewers in Thursday evening’s replay (December 31)
Raw from January 4 – drew 105,000 viewers in the LIVE timeslot (early Tuesday morning), and 69,000 viewers in the Thursday replay (+18,000)
Raw from January 11 – drew 74,000 viewers in the LIVE timeslot (-31,000) and 35,000 viewers in the Thursday replay (-34,000)
Raw from January 18 – drew 80,000 viewers in the LIVE timeslot (+6,000) and 35,000 viewers in the Thursday replay (no change)
Raw from January 25 – drew 114,000 viewers in the LIVE timeslot (+34,000)
SmackDown from January 1 – drew 139,000 viewers in its first airing on New Year’s Day
SmackDown from January 8 – drew 101,000 viewers in its first airing (-38,000)
SmackDown from January 15 – drew 75,000 viewers in its first airing (-26,000)
SmackDown from January 22 – drew 90,000 viewers in its first airing (+15,000)
SmackDown from January 29 – drew 90,000 viewers in its first airing (no change), with replays on Saturday drawing 55,000 and 56,000 viewers.
ECW from January 12 drew 54,000 viewers on January 14’s first airing.
So overall, TNA vs Raw – TNA lost the “Monday night war” in the UK, but won every other week bar January 25… whereas SmackDown was beating it for the first two weeks of the year, until TNA came over strongly.
Finally Impact is getting decent numbers on Bravo, so I have no idea why they are even hinting at leaving that station.
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