{"id":181309,"date":"2024-07-09T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=181309"},"modified":"2024-07-09T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:20:36","slug":"wwe-smackdown-ratings-report-7-5-viewership-and-key-demo-info-ten-week-average-comparisons-to-year-ago-data-for-final-hype-for-mitb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/07\/09\/wwe-smackdown-ratings-report-7-5-viewership-and-key-demo-info-ten-week-average-comparisons-to-year-ago-data-for-final-hype-for-mitb\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Smackdown Ratings Report (7\/5): Viewership and key demo info, ten-week average, comparisons to year-ago data for final hype for MITB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1338368972\" 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 (7\/5) averaged 2.256 million viewers, identical from the prior week and below the 2.336 million from two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The current ten-week rolling average is 2.193 million. The same ten-week period last year averaged 2.320. So viewership is down 127,000 over this recent ten-week period compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.66 rating, also identical to the prior week and down from the 0.73 rating from two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The current ten-week rolling average is 0.62. One year ago, the same ten week period was 0.61.<\/p>\n<p>The advertised matches and segments were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#DIY (Johnny Gargano &amp; Tommaso Ciampa) challenge A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory &amp; Grayson Waller)<\/li>\n<li>Bianca Belair &amp; Jade Cargill vs. Candice LeRae &amp; Indi Hartwell<\/li>\n<li>Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince &amp; Kit Wilson) vs. The Street Profits (Montez Ford &amp; Angelo Dawkins)<\/li>\n<li>The Bloodline will appear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CHECK OUT OUR PWTORCH POST-SHOW AFTER SATURDAY&#8217;S WWE MONEY IN THE BANK&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both the audio podcast and YouTube video versions are included below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=60628348&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=show&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WWE Money in the Bank LIVE Post-show w\/Greg Parks &amp; Brandon LeClair\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LzjXeNa0R2I?start=4801&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3953864868\"><div id=\"pwtor-3039095647\"><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 (7\/5) averaged 2.256 million viewers, identical from the prior week and below the 2.336 million from two weeks ago. The current ten-week rolling average is 2.193 million. The same ten-week period <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/07\/09\/wwe-smackdown-ratings-report-7-5-viewership-and-key-demo-info-ten-week-average-comparisons-to-year-ago-data-for-final-hype-for-mitb\/\" title=\"WWE Smackdown Ratings Report (7\/5): Viewership and key demo info, ten-week average, comparisons to year-ago data for final hype for MITB\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181310,"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":[2,6916,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-ratings","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-1.19.09\u202fPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181309","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=181309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181311,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181309\/revisions\/181311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}