This seemed like a good post for during the middle of Mexico’s World Cup game.
CMLL 1.9
AAA 4.9
CMLL’s number is easily it’s lowest number since we started tracking them. The closest they’ve come is a 2.3 rating a month ago.
It is no surprise; by moving CMLL up a half hour this week, they went head up with Brazil vs Côte d’Ivoire in the World Cup, which drew a 20. That game seemed to be one of the more anticipated games of the first round (at least until all of Africa seemed to play poorly) and the game kicked off exactly when CMLL started and ran the entire show. In my opinion is that game probably took CMLL down a point or two. I don’t think LLL got the numbers for last week, but I would guess they’re probably pretty similar for CMLL and I’d be surprised if there was any particular response to this (not that CMLL ever seems to respond to ratings; if AAA has trouble finding out what they are, I can’t imagine CMLL even knows.) There are clearly problems with CMLL’s main TV show, but they had better challenges this week.
AAA’s show started up against the last few minutes of the game and probably a couple hours of post game. This was the first part of TripleMania, though it didn’t seem like they did much to promote it was airing this week. 4.9 is a low number for AAA, but in it’s usual range.
If the World Cup is a factor, they’ve got two more weeks to deal with it. There will be a round of 16 game this Sunday (which could include Mexico; we’ll know in an hour!), a day off next Sunday, and then the World Cup final on 07/11.
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CMLL is unwatchable. I blame them entirely for this disaster. They don’t try to make the show entertaining.
Televisa can’t be happy, but I don’t think CMLL is in danger of losing their slot. Televisa is rumored to pay little or nothing for the rights to CMLL. In exchange, CMLL is giving promotional consideration in the form of house show promos, and they money they make selling ringside signage.
@LLL: I don’t place all the blame on CMLL. There’s all those commercials airing as well. If anything I blame both CMLL and Televisa for how crappy the show is. CMLL’s part in all this is the annoying filler on it. Televisa with moving the show around and those freaking commercials are insane. 9 minutes of commercials. That’s ridiculous.
6/18 Smackdown 7.0
RAW airs tonight.
I’ve always thought that WWE’s ratings were artifically high, and would eventually drop to the 6-7 range.
Every other channel in the world could be experiencing technical difficulties except for the Weather Channel and CMLL would still lose the ratings battle. That TV show is pathetic and the company should be embarassed about it. It’s a shame they don’t know it exists though. And those who do know it exists and are ashamed of it as well are too selfish to do anything about it b/c they get to see the live shows anyways so they figure who cares if it’s watchable on TV.
Bah.