Ratings going into Mania...

**Kane Knight** · 03-12-2008, 11:43 AM

Last week's Raw drew hours of 3 and 3, for about 5 million viewers apiece. This is the first year in the time I've been following NMR's ratings for Raw that they've seen a decrease instead of an increase going into Wrestlemania. Think this says something new about WWE, or is a portent for some level of disappointment at Wrestlemania? PPV buyrates don't always correlate with the ratings of Raw and Smackdown, and this is the granddaddy of them all, but this is certainly an interesting trend.

03-12-2008, 11:43 AM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Ratings going into Mania... Last week's Raw drew hours of 3 and 3, for about 5 million viewers apiece. This is the first year in the time I've been following NMR's ratings for Raw that they've seen a decrease instead of an increase going into Wrestlemania. Think this says something new about WWE, or is a portent for some level of disappointment at Wrestlemania? PPV buyrates don't always correlate with the ratings of Raw and Smackdown, and this is the granddaddy of them all, but this is certainly an interesting trend. �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers