TV ratings: WWE Monday Night Raw on Halloween

WWE Raw last night on USA Network, was watched by 1,501,000 viewers on average, including about 470,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.36 P18-49 rating.

Airing on Halloween night, this was Raw’s lowest total viewership since May 30 of this year and its lowest P18-49 viewership since December 6, 2021. This is the third-lowest total viewership and second-lowest P18-49 viewership for Raw on USA Network. The lowest total viewership for Raw on USA was on July 5, 2021 (1,472,000 viewers). The February 7 preemption earlier this year on Syfy is the least-watched Raw ever (1,388,000 viewers).

Compared to last week, Raw was down 8% in total viewership. Among viewers 18 to 49, viewership was down 19% from last week’s 580,000.

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Despite the low viewership, Raw’s ranking was normal. Only ESPN telecasts centering around the NFL game ranked ahead.

Raw was #7 in P18-49 among cable originals for the day, according to Showbuzz Daily. Including broadcast primetime, it ranked #11.

Monday Night Football (Cincinnati vs. Cleveland) on ESPN (2.84 in P18-49, 10.0 million viewers) ranked #1 for Monday. An additional 1.29 million viewers (and a P18-49 rating of 0.43) watched the game on ESPN2.

Raw didn’t go ahead with the World Series, as originally scheduled, as the game was postponed due to weather.

For Raw, M18-49 was down 29% compared to the prior four weeks. P35-49 was down 29%. P18-49 was down 23%. M12-34 was down 20%.

Viewer counts in thousands, calculated from national ratings, for this week’s episode with difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:

P2+: 1501 (-13%)

P18-49: 470 (-23%)

M18-49: 283 (-29%)

F18-49: 186 (-14%)

P18-34: 190 (-13%)

P35-49: 280 (-29%)

Non-P18-49: 1031 (-5%)

F12-34: 108 (+2%)

M12-34: 115 (-20%)

P25-54: 644 (-16%)

P50+: 944 (-5%)

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Brandon Thurston
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