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| I'm sure WCW's ratings at the time would pretty much disprove that first paragraph. |
WCW ratings were only low compared to what Raw was doing at the time (in the 5.0's and 6.0's).
Even in 2001, the lowest rating Nitro got was 2.1 (a rating that even SmackDown is struggling to get now and a rating that ECW hasn't gotten since 2006), which it got 6 times. Their highest rating in 2000 was the September 4 episode (headlined by Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash and Vince Russo vs. Booker T, Sting, KroniK and Goldberg in WarGames 2000 for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship), which got a 3.6 rating (a number WWE loves to get for Raw). Here is all of Nitro's ratings:
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Rob, yes Nitro's ratings did go down after Arqutte won, but that is a little inaccurate. Here were the 4 ratings Nitro got before he won: 2.6 (3/13), 2.5 (3/20), 2.6 (3/27), 3.1 (4/10). The April 3 Nitro and April 5 Thunder were canceled because April 10 was when Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff "re-booted" WCW by stripping all the champions of the belt and announcing they would be decided at the Spring Stampede PPV that Sunday. So the 3.5 rating was likely people wanting to find out who all the new champions were and to tune in for the New Blood storyline. So 3.5 was basically a post-PPV spike.