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Last night after Raw, to cover what would be his suspension today, R-Truth tweeted (of course he did) the following: "Getting up to go get checked out,,but having balancing problem…can't think straight…" Mike Johnson and I will have more on this on the hot news hotline today.
WWE Chief Financial Officer, George A. Barrios, will participate in the UBS 39th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference, on December 5, 2011, in New York, NY. Barrios' remarks are expected to begin at approximately 11:00 a.m. ET. A live audio webcast will be available online at corporate.wwe.com/investors. Also, a replay of the presentation will begin shortly after the actual presentation and will be available until March 4, 2012.
Ian Hamilton reporting. ... Hey guys - eight weeks of TV ratings here from the UK, covering the period before and after TNA's Bound for Glory, as well as the build from WWE's Night of Champions, all the way up to the Halloween Muppets episode of Raw.
TNA:
Bound For Glory drew 186,000 viewers on a three-day tape delay (with no replays, save for the Challenge +1 timeshift channel - something that is really annoying, given that Impact gets a replay!)
As for Impact, looking at the first airings only (3 days after the US):
September 15 - no rating (would mean 114,000 viewers or less)
September 22 - 141,000
September 19 - 137,000 (-4,000 viewers)
October 6 - 184,000 (+47,000)
October 13 - 169,000 (-15,000)
October 20 - 147,000 (-22,000)
October 27 - 191,000 (+44,000)
November 3 - 197,000 (+6,000)
Quite a fluctuation here; Impact fell off a cliff in mid September, leading to them not appearing on Challenge's top ten for what I think would be the first time since they moved onto the station earlier in 2011. The viewership did recover, before dropping off before Bound For Glory, although the post-BFG stuff with Roode and Storm looks to have helped the show back to some good ratings.
WWE:
On the WWE front, two pay-per-views aired on "free" TV on Sky Sports.
Night of Champions: airing live, drew 156,000 viewers, with a replay the following night drawing 98,000.
Vengeance got 130,000 live, with 43,000 the following evening on the replay.
Raw's ratings (all for the live airing)
September 12 - 145,000 (-1,000 viewers on the prior week)
September 19 - 159,000 (+14,000)
September 26 - 150,000 (-9,000)
October 3 - 112,000 (-38,000)
October 10 - 148,000 (+36,000)
October 17 - 130,000 (-18,000)
October 24 - 131,000 (+1,000)
October 31 - 116,000 (-15,000)
SmackDown (all for the first airing on Friday night)
September 16 - 142,000
September 23 - 195,000 (+53,000)
September 30 - 136,000 (-59,000)
October 7 - 75,000 (-61,000)
October 14 - 102,000 (+27,000)
October 21 - 93,000 (-9,000)
October 28 - 114,000 (+21,000)
November 4 - 124,000 (+10,000)
A few stories here - Raw staying on the same channel at the same time every week leads to a fair amount of consistency, with the ratings changes most likely a result of viewers' feelings from the prior week. SmackDown largely stays on the same channel/same time (Sky Sports 3 at 10pm) - a change of channel has more effect than a delayed start, most likely due to people using series-link features getting caught out.
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