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The first edition of the Million Dollar Giveaway drew...

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2.6 and 2.5!

Way to go Vince! Your ratings actually DROPPED!

well the problem with trying to gain ratings for this is that you don't actually have to watch the show. You get the password, you wait by your phone and then you can flip back over. It's not like you have to stay glued to Raw

And it doesn't help that THEY GIVE AWAY THE FUCKING PASSWORD ON THE WEBSITE!

And they should have ya know, change the password for each prize.

You don't have to, but the same is true with most such giveaways, and those manage to raise ratings and sales.

Of course, the problem is that people have to give a shit in the first place.

At least 3 million of Raw's viewers didn't. And if you can't draw in them, what chance do they have of jacking the ratings?

They should have had some puzzle game when you had to collect letters that would pop up on the screen at random times on Raw throughout the course of a month. Make people watch for the money.

The early ratings for the 2nd week say they are up, i know the figures I see are different from what KK gets, but the usual places are saying it's up by 0.3

So, in a way, Vince is paying a million a week for viewers to turn off.

Brilliant business.

He's a BILLIONAIRE!

.3 from what, though? From the 2.6 figure, which brings them back to breakeven, or...?

I think I know what his plan is.

After Million Dollar Mania fails, he's going to hire Brock Lesnar to come to our houses and shake us down for money.

Is it true they called people to tell them to stand by their phones before the first show?

Yeah

That would explain why nobody sounded surprised the first time.

How do they do ratings anyways? I had learned about Ratings and Shares in my Mass Media Class here at the college I attend, but I never learned how it was done. I thought that ratings would go up if a person watched a program for a set amount of time.

Are you asking specifically how a person is counted?

Yeah how are they counted, I mean how do they know that you are watching a program...Do they do it in a survey fashion?

I'm sort of glad the WWE is failing. Shit like this deserves a ratings drop. RAW this week was apparently much better, so that's something in the WWE's favour, at least.

hahahahahahahahaha :rofl:

vince big dummy!

THANKS, I forgot about the Neilsens.

million dollar mania sucks man

Smackdown gets more viewers in the UK than Raw now.

That's funny.

It's also the only system that matters in terms of cable ratings. Of course, they also use TV Readers, devices which are hooked up to people's boxes. I'm not even sure the "TV Diary" method is still in service, though it may be. The boxes are more accurate, and so Nielsen started to favor them in the 90s.

What about those like me who just a cable?

You don't count, though they're actually capable of getting the data. It's easier to get the data from a sample than to go through the hoops.

Doesn't really matter what YOU do or don't trust. You don't have a business based on that ratings system.

Whether it's accurate or not doesn't matter if the industry adheres to it.

Polls are fine as long as their methods are sound. Nielsen's aren't, since they currently don't cover a large variety of people and situations. However, that is moot, since:

What he said.

It's a bad reason.

Why would anyone believe it's not?

Maybe it's time for WWE to address the issue of CRAPPY PROGRAMMING rather than just trying to bribe people into watching. And if these ratings are proof of anything, it's that Raw has been SO BAD that a lot of people don't think its worth watching even for the chance at a money.

What are you talking about!? WWE programming is FRESH and INNOVATIVE!