So..why did SNME die off after 92?

The Saturday Night Main Event on Fox on 11/14 drew a 6.1 rating and a 10 share, which placed it in 86th place for that week among 92 prime time shows. The rating and total viewing audience was the lowest ever for a WWF network show. It was down a full 31% from the February Fox special in the same time slot which featured Hulk Hogan & Sid Justice breaking up in their tag match against Ric Flair & Undertaker. I don't know if this will be the end of WWF getting network specials or not, but I'd say that one more rating like this would conclusively be the end of the line. Fox put the show in during the important November sweeps period with the idea it would deliver a rating like the previous one, which was a success. Instead, it lost 38% of the audience from the "Cops" show that was its lead-in, which in television terms, is considered a terrible performance. It also drew a rating slightly lower than Fox normally does with "Code 3" during the same time slot. Nevertheless, from a short-term standpoint, the show reached 5.27 million homes and about eight million total viewers, which is the best exposure any pro wrestling event in this country has had since the February Fox special. It's nearly triple the weekly audience that tunes into WWF Superstars in syndication nowadays. It should be noted that the audience for the Fox special with them plugging Warrior in the Survivor Series match was nearly quadruple the audience watching two nights later (2.0 rating in 1.44 million homes) for the two-hour angle where Mr. Perfect turned babyface to replace Warrior. While the angle itself, although predictable and coming off slightly desperate, was as well executed as it could be given the circumstances, largely due to Bobby Heenan, it was still a relatively small audience that saw it. The larger syndication audience didn't see the angle unfold, although the interviews on Saturday from both sides after the angle were excellent. Still, more people that not who watched the show on Fox probably still are unaware that Warrior isn't on the show, and there was plenty of advance warning to make it clear to the total audience that Warrior wasn't going to be on the PPV. Probably due as much to such a plethora of free television over a five-day period as anything, All-American Wrestling on 11/15 was the victim of this overexposure, drawing a 1.3 rating and a three share, both all-time lows.