{"id":17843,"date":"2016-04-29T22:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=17843"},"modified":"2016-04-29T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T03:59:54","slug":"428-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-sd-fall-year-lows-across-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/04\/29\/428-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-sd-fall-year-lows-across-board\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/28 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings &#8211; SD fall to year-lows across the board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1981375075\" 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>This week&#8217;s WWE Smackdown TV ratings fell hard a few days before the Payback PPV. Nothing was advertised in-advance and the episode went against the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:\u00a0<\/strong>Smackdown leading into Payback scored a 1.54 rating, down 10 percent from last week&#8217;s 1.71 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Monday&#8217;s Raw, Smackdown drew by far the lowest TV rating of the year.\u00a0Also similar to Raw, the previous low was in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown drew 2.109 million viewers, down 13 percent (about 320,000 viewers) from last week.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fewest viewers of the year and also the fewest since December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; DEMOGRAPHICS: Smackdown fell to year-lows in each key demographic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adults 18-49 fell one-tenth of a rating from last week to a year-low<\/li>\n<li>Males 18-49 fell 19 percent from last week to a year-low<\/li>\n<li>Males 18-34 fell one-tenth of a rating from last week to a year-low<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Last year&#8217;s Smackdown against Night 1 of the NFL Draft took a similar tumble.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2543556185\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The April 30, 2015 episode fell 16 percent in the TV rating and 12 percent in TV viewership.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is last year&#8217;s episode on Syfy still drew a 1.62 rating and 2.338 million viewers and Smackdown was in the 1.9s before and after the episode against the Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Removing this week&#8217;s poor TV rating, Smackdown is currently in the 1.7s one year removed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-967258007\"><div id=\"pwtor-2651248214\"><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>This week&#8217;s WWE Smackdown TV ratings fell hard a few days before the Payback PPV. 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