A few weeks ago, I decided to keep track of my viewing time of WWE Monday Night Raw, ECW, TNA, and WWE Smackdown over the period of several months to see if I’m able to tell anything about the direction of the quality of the programming (e.g. am I watching less, more, or about the same).
Still haven’t worked out how I want to show week-to-week changes for each promotion. I think I’ll only show those once a month, but I haven’t really thought any more about how to display it.
For the week of 7/21/08
Time Before First Match (Wk of 7/21/08)
The WWE had a Pay-Per-View on 7/20/08. What seems to be the trend is that after a PPV the first part of the programming consists of speeches and interviews related to the outcome. I would expect the “time until the first match” to increase. Both Raw and Smackdown increased, but ECW dropped by 5 mins. TNA was about the same as last week.
Percentage of Viewing Time (Wk of 7/21/08)
Partly because I hadn’t read up on any PPV results, I watched more of the Raw program this week to find out some of the match outcomes. ECW was identical to last week, TNA down a bit, Smackdown up. Smackdown was up because of finding out that Bam Neely is not a mute.
Highights for this week…
Raw Highlights:
- Kade vs. London
ECW Highlights:
- Evan Bourne
TNA Highlights:
- 4-way
- Table Match
Smackdown Highlights:
- Bam Neely speaks
Neat graphs. The wasted time is unbelievable.
Mr. Davis it is very nice to see that you have taken such a fond interest in my nephew’s new found stardom, I was fortunate enough to take my 17 year old son on the road with A.K.A Bam and the W.W.E for a few day’s last month and was amazed at the respect and all out great welcome that they showed Me and my son.
They issued us back stage passes and poured out enough merchandise and personal conversation’s that I thought I was at an independent show.
I would just like to let all fan’s out there know how great and professional this group of athlete’s are, and to thank you personally for all the matches you have posted, and fine effort you have given to my nephew.
He is coming home again soon and as alway’s I will let him know all about your great work, since his debut he has been on or in every pay per view and has traveled to Europe and Australia and many more countries and even ran into a old freind Luke from the Bushwackers in his home country of New Zealand.
We spent many nights facing the Bushwacker’s across the country.
Again thank you for all your time, and I hope to see you soon, Hellraiser Blood!
Blood,
If you look around the blog at other comments, you’ll see that people are all really happy that he made it to the big leagues. The talent could be seen early on, and I’m glad that the WWE was able to recognize it.