This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw got the lowest audience for a non-holiday episode since the Monday Night Wars era. The show got about 2.911 million viewers, a 12% drop from last week's episode, which had 3.314 million viewers.
The show was up against the Olympics on NBC, which averaged 28.8 million viewers. The audience for the Olympics on Monday was down from 2012 (31.6 million) and 2008 (30.2 million), although it was better than the numbers in 2000 (21 million) and 2004 (27.1 million).
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The episode of RAW against the first Monday night of the Olympics in 2012 averaged 4.495 million viewers. The first hour of RAW averaged 2.95 million viewers, before rising slightly to 2.974 million viewers in the second before falling to 2.809 million viewers in the final hour. It is the first time that all three hours of a non-holiday show scored less than 3 million viewers since the show permanently went to three hours in July of 2012.
In this day and age, the possible reason of ratings on television reducing the way they do is due to the access of everything on the internet. Highlights as well are freely available to access, so that could be another reason. However, for Raw itself, this week fell creatively flat, so there was bound to be a drop in viewership
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