Welcome to another edition of The Wrestling Post. In this post we’ll catch up on Total Divas ratings and the WWE brokers a new television deal in Latin America.
Total Divas Ratings –Season 3, episode 2
The second episode of the third season of Total Divas did just 974,000 viewers with a 0.5 rating. It’s a decrease from the debut episode for the third season which drew 1.2 million viewers.
Payout Take: Without a Kardashians lead-in on the E! Network, Total Divas is finding it hard to grab its own audience. It also doesn’t help that it is up against the NFL and other must see Sunday night television. Don’t expect a huge uptick this Sunday as it goes up against a WWE live event on the network.
WWE and Fox Sports Latin America announce 5 year pact
Earlier this week, the WWE announced a deal with Fox Sports Latin America. The 5 year deal includes Fox Sports Premium platforms across all of Latin America which will make WWE programming available in 56 million homes. The deal begins October 6th with WWE airing Monday Night Raw across the Fox networks.
Payout Take: The move into countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia and Venezuela will help with its global footprint. It will also help with the future proliferation of the WWE Network.
I’d love to see a global map that color coded the networks that UFC and WWE aired on in each country.
1.2M viewers for Divas crushes TUF ratings and most UFN ratings…but then again UFC leads in its demo…
John Frederickson likes men.