Following the WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view on Sunday night and the post-show hype going into Monday night’s WWE RAW broadcast, the rating for RAW spiked to its highest number since the day after WrestleMania 31 in 2015. Monday night’s episode drew 4.098 million viewers and a 1.49 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic, up a big 17% and 22% from last week’s 3.496 million and 1.22 demo rating. The viewership for the show was the best since the June 15th episode of RAW which pulled in 4.114 million watchers, while the demo rating topped every week since the March 30th episode spike to a 1.86 following WrestleMania 31.
Although the show didn’t compete with Monday night football this week, some new programming was back on all the networks and The X-Files is currently bringing in very strong ratings, while the other broadcast shows held well also so it was a big night for TV. RAW ranked #2 for the night among cable originals when all three hours were averaged, behind Love & Hip-Hop on VH-1 (1.5 demo rating, 2.778 million viewers). The hourly numbers were as follows:
8 PM: 1.44 demo rating (4.140 million viewers)
9 PM: 1.53 demo rating (4.183 million viewers)
10 PM: 1.51 demo rating (3.972 million viewers)
