{"id":106811,"date":"2020-10-23T00:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=106811"},"modified":"2020-10-23T00:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:12:54","slug":"wwe-smackdowns-season-premiere-final-rating-ties-for-best-in-key-demo-viewership-down-from-last-year-key-stats-and-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/10\/23\/wwe-smackdowns-season-premiere-final-rating-ties-for-best-in-key-demo-viewership-down-from-last-year-key-stats-and-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Smackdown&#8217;s &#8220;season premiere&#8221; final rating ties for best in key demo, viewership down from last year, key stats and perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-160526164\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Last Friday&#8217;s WWE Smackdown on Fox, billed as the &#8220;Season Premiere,&#8221; drew 2.124 million total viewers (up significantly from the preliminary overnight ratings released Saturday). That&#8217;s essentially flat with the prior four weeks &#8211; about 55,000 down from last week&#8217;s Draft, but 14,000 above the Sept. 25 viewership.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago on Fox, Smackdown drew 2.545 million viewers. So this week&#8217;s show is down 421,000 or roughly 16.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the key demo, it drew a 0.56 rating, and it tied for the best demo rating among all broadcast network shows on Friday night, tied with ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Shark Tank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/10\/21\/raw-ratings-post-draft-have-some-good-news-and-bad-news-a-look-at-key-metrics-and-perspective\/\">Raw Ratings post-Draft have some good news and bad news, a look at key metrics and perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-985932545\"><div id=\"pwtor-1345347256\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Last Friday&#8217;s WWE Smackdown on Fox, billed as the &#8220;Season Premiere,&#8221; drew 2.124 million total viewers (up significantly from the preliminary overnight ratings released Saturday). That&#8217;s essentially flat with the prior four weeks &#8211; about <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/10\/23\/wwe-smackdowns-season-premiere-final-rating-ties-for-best-in-key-demo-viewership-down-from-last-year-key-stats-and-perspective\/\" title=\"WWE Smackdown&#8217;s &#8220;season premiere&#8221; final rating ties for best in key demo, viewership down from last year, key stats and perspective\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/08\/Thunderdome-SD_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106812,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106811\/revisions\/106812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}