Viewership Up For RAW Season Premiere – Monday’s season premiere edition of RAW drew an average of 1.658 million viewers, which is up 4.08% from last week.
For this week’s show, the first hour drew 1.727 million viewers, the second hour drew 1.668 million viewers and the final hour drew 1.580 million viewers.
This week’s RAW season premiere drew a 0.47 rating in the 18-49 key demographic, up 20.51% from last week’s 0.39 key demo rating. That 0.47 key demo rating represents 613,000 18-49 viewers.
To compare season premiere episodes, the 2020 RAW season premiere aired a week earlier and drew 1.777 million viewers (-6.75%) and a 0.52 key demo rating (-9.6%).
Monday’s season premiere episode from the Toyota Center in Houston had a few happenings advertised ahead of time – fallout from Crown Jewel, the new era with WWE Draft changes, and RAW Tag Team Champions Randy Orton and Riddle defending AJ Styles and Omos, which ended up being R-K-Bro defending against Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler. The main event was the Fatal 4 Way Ladder Match with winner Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Kevin Owens and Rey Mysterio.
