WWE has been suffering from a ratings decline for months now, but it seems this might be rectified soon enough owing to a new system.
According to a report by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the Nielsen Ratings will be changed. The system used to determine most of the TV ratings. The service will also count viewers who watched a show outside of their homes.
Nielsen has announced that ratings will be changing next year and they will be measuring viewing outside the home, in places like bars, airports and offices as well as other areas.
Nielsen has been testing out doing ratings of out-of-home viewing and has found that sports events in particular, with sports bars, will increase an average of 11 percent with the added viewership.
The WWE is supposed to get a ratings spike of 11% which is a significant boost for the company. We will get to know in due time whether this system will actually help with ratings or not.
