{"id":20966,"date":"2016-05-27T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=20966"},"modified":"2016-06-16T03:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T08:45:19","slug":"526-smackdown-tv-ratings-smackdown-takes-big-hit-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/27\/526-smackdown-tv-ratings-smackdown-takes-big-hit-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/26 Smackdown TV Ratings &#8211; Smackdown takes a big hit on Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4042670215\" 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 continued to slump in the soon-to-be-departing Thursday night timeslot on USA Network. The overall rating was down, but the key demographics were pitiful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 26:\u00a0<\/strong>Smackdown after Extreme Rules scored a 1.57 TV rating, down from a 1.62 rating last week leading into Extreme Rules.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown faced tough TV competition, including a hotly-contested NBA Western Conference Playoffs series, NHL Playoffs Game 7, and one-off ESPN Spelling Bee special.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of competition or general disinterest, Smackdown nosedived in each key demographic, reaching year-lows across the board.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adults 18-49 fell 16 percent from last week\n<ul>\n<li>A18-49 was down 23 percent from the Q1 avg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Males 18-34\u00a0fell 15 percent from last week\n<ul>\n<li>M18-34 was down 39 percent from the Q1 avg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Males 18-49 fell 20 percent from last week\n<ul>\n<li>M18-49 was down 32 percent from the Q1 avg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Smackdown drew 2.112 million viewers, down eight percent (about 183,000 viewers) from last week.<\/p>\n<p>It was nearly the fewest viewers of the year. 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The overall rating was down, but the key demographics were pitiful&#8230; WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking May 26:\u00a0Smackdown after Extreme <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/27\/526-smackdown-tv-ratings-smackdown-takes-big-hit-thursday-night\/\" title=\"5\/26 Smackdown TV Ratings &#8211; Smackdown takes a big hit on Thursday night\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1232,"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":[1],"tags":[72,402,401,1613,117,1716],"class_list":["post-20966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-smackdown","tag-smackdown-ratings","tag-tv-ratings","tag-wwe-ratings","tag-wwe-smackdown","tag-wwe-tv-ratings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SDlogo_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20968,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions\/20968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}