Monday night's RAW celebrated "3:16 Day," and was the first edition of the show to hail from the WWE Performance Center without a crowd. Now, we've learned that it drew an average of 2.335 million viewers on the USA Network, an impressive 8% increase from the week before.
The post-Elimination Chamber episode drew 2.163 million viewers, but the addition of Edge, The Undertaker, and Stone Cold Steve Austin no doubt helped increase interest this time.
Hour one drew 2.412 million viewers, hour two did 2.486 million viewers, and the final hour dipped to 2.108 million viewers. You might think that two hours of the show being taken up with a replay of this year's Men's Royal Rumble will have hurt, but bear in mind that less than a million people subscribe to the WWE Network, so this was a first viewing for many fans.
RAW was #14 for the night in terms of viewership on cable, so this move to the WWE Performance Center clearly isn't hurting WWE quite yet. What happens moving forward will be very interesting, though, especially as the plan is for tonight's NXT to be a studio show.
What did you think about RAW?