WWE's "Saturday Night's Main Event" Bombs

[OMEN]

The Fast National rating for WWE's "Saturday Night's Main Event" came in below a 3.4 last night (specific numbers were not available at press time), indicating that wrestling's presence on a major network did nothing to revitalize interest in the product.

According to Nielsen Media Research, NBC's two hours of wrestling caused the network to place last among the four channels offering national programming Saturday night.

The professional wrestling industry was looking for a significantly higher number, going as far as to suggest that anything below a 5.0 would be a disappointment.

While those within the TV industry had lower expectations, the score is also below those estimates and does not create an optimistic outlook for future WWE programming on NBC (outside of the confirmed summer SNME).

WWE sources will likely attribute the low rating to the NCAA tournament, but even then, the company will not be able to spin this as great news.

Edge

[Voodoo]

It wasnt even on TV here, they had the Pistons game on.

[Rob]

its dumb to have a saturday night show... not a lot of ppl watch tv on sat nights...

[yankeesman77]

I really liked the show that happened last night. It's a shame that people cant watch a great professional wrestling program. I mean the viewers are just to ignorant and give it a steriotypical view of wrestling in general. But I thought this would have generated more viewers seeing as how Raw generates about 500,000 to 600,00 more viewers but the wwe needs to keep plugging SNME and also make it a weekly program that will draw in more fans and was also a bad idea to schedual it during march madness.