WWE Raw March 17 Netflix viewership remains consistent; Dave Meltzer analysis

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The 3/17 episode of WWE Raw, built around the first John Cena vs. Cody Rhodes confrontation post-Cena heel turn, was a very interesting number as Netflix listed 5,800,000 hours viewed and 3,100,000 global views.

The problem with that is that they listed the show’s run time as one hour 49 minutes. However, the show’s actual run time was two hours 24 minutes not only live, but for the next day as well on replay as I checked and it was still two hours and 24 minutes. They did eventually edit it down to one hour and 49 minutes but that was two days later.  But once again, they came up with the number of viewers by dividing the total hours by the replay time number, not the live and same day number of time.

In doing so, they listed actual viewing time as down 3.3 percent from last week while at the same time listing total viewers as up 3.3 percent.  While this sounds contradictory, it really isn’t on the surface because it was a shorter show than the week before except for those who watched on replay for the first 24 hours where it was 35 minutes longer. But even using the most favorable identical percentage of the “live show until the replay is up without commercials” when clearly that wasn’t the case, you end up with almost identical numbers to the Madison Square Garden show and the CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins cage match.

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