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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Wrestling\'s \'Raw\' Hits a Ratings High

By ADAM W. KEPLER

The 1,000th episode of World Wrestling Entertainment's “Raw” on USA Network pile-drove, clothes-lined and then threw the rest of the cable competition into the turnbuckle on Monday night, as it drew its largest audience in 10 years. According to Nielsen, the three-hour episode averaged 6 million total viewers, up 18 percent from last week's episode which had 4.9 million total viewers. 3.1 million viewers who tuned in were in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, the group deemed most important by advertisers. It easily finished first in all ratings categories among cable programming and beat most of the programming on the broadcast networks as well, with only “Hell's Kitchen” and “MasterChef” on Fox drawing larger audiences at 6.5 million and 6.4 million total viewers respectively.



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