How Do You Follow Up On Survivor Series?

Raw this week got some good numbers. Viewership average was above 4 million. Ratings came in above a 3.0 for the first time in months. What do you attribute that to? Ratings are usually good the night after a PPV, especially if something big happened at that PPV. You had the debut of Sting and The Authority going out of power at Survivor Series. That is definitely a reason for many fans to want to tune in.

Let me use what I was talking about just yesterday. Where did all those extra fans come from? What type of fans? Those are your D fans and C fans. D fans are the ones you have to work for just to come in once in a while. C fans are the casuals that tune in a little more often than the D fans, but are still not that loyal. Of course, viewers started tuning out as the show went on. That is what you would expect from these type of fans. Football was on. Huge events were happening in the United States that led to many people watching the news. All that in consideration, Raw still did very well.

But how do you follow up on that? How do you keep these part-time fans coming in and possibly turn them into B fans? Sting is obviously not going to be around regularly. He wasn't on Raw this week. And the issue of who takes over now can create some interest, but they have to handle it right. They brought back Daniel Bryan this week. Good move, but I don't think his power to truly draw has ever really been determined. He has never really been in John Cena's spot. Moreover, Raw ended in a very annoying fashion. The computer GM is back. The Anonymous GM is back. Last time, it was Hornswoggle. Very disappointing. Hopefully, they do something better this time. I doubt they can do worse.

Should the new person in charge be a heel? I think so. You have no strong heels right now. I said that taking The Authority out of power might leave Seth Rollins looking less credible. And I got that feeling this week. There is nothing wrong with faces looking strong and embarrassing the heels now and then, but you have not created a lot of great heels and do not want to ruin the ones you are in the midst of creating. Some fans are expecting a heel turn because of the lack of heels. I saw some fans saying that John Cena or Dolph Ziggler would turn heel on Raw this week. Didn't happen. What about Big Show? It doesn't really matter. All your heels feel like B+ players right now. A heel GM might help things. I saw one fan say Paul Heyman should run things. Not a bad idea. It could work into Cena vs. Lesnar. There's also the idea of pushing Sting as the GM, but I think that would bury the heels even more. They need something to get their momentum back and look like big deals again. The faces got their fun this week, but now it is time for some heels to rise up in a big way.