{"id":22404,"date":"2016-06-10T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=22404"},"modified":"2016-06-16T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T08:46:12","slug":"spring-tv-report-wwe-smackdown-american-grit-peak-early-thursday-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/10\/spring-tv-report-wwe-smackdown-american-grit-peak-early-thursday-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring TV Viewership Report &#8211; WWE Smackdown &#038; &#8220;American Grit&#8221; peak early on Thursdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-549474235\" 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>The nine-week run of WWE Smackdown and John Cena&#8217;s &#8220;American Grit&#8221; sharing TV space on Thursday nights peaked early and faded late.<\/p>\n<p>From April 14 to June 9, Smackdown averaged 2.23 million viewers, down 10 percent from the First Quarter 2016 average of 2.48 million viewers during WrestleMania Season.<\/p>\n<p>During the same period that &#8220;American Grit&#8221; aired on Fox, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/10\/final-viewership-tally-john-cenas-american-grit-fox\/\">John Cena&#8217;s show averaged 1.98 million viewers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two shows combined to average 4.21 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The first week of Smackdown and Grit airings on April 14 combined to draw 4.71 million viewers. Week 2 combined for 4.60 million viewers. After that, the next seven weeks fell below the average.<\/p>\n<p>Included was Thursday&#8217;s season finale of Grit, which combined with Smackdown to actually draw fewer viewers than last week, mainly due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/10\/69-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-fall-year-low-sd-draws-fewer-2-0-million-viewers\/\">Smackdown drawing a year-low audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The final tally of which show drew more viewers was\u00a0Smackdown with eight and Grit with one. Grit&#8217;s season finale outdrew Smackdown, mainly due to Smackdown&#8217;s year-low viewership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/06\/SDGrit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/06\/SDGrit.png\" alt=\"SDGrit\" width=\"499\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/06\/SDGrit.png 499w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/06\/SDGrit-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3915819023\"><div id=\"pwtor-3923039312\"><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>The nine-week run of WWE Smackdown and John Cena&#8217;s &#8220;American Grit&#8221; sharing TV space on Thursday nights peaked early and faded late. From April 14 to June 9, Smackdown averaged 2.23 million viewers, down 10 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/10\/spring-tv-report-wwe-smackdown-american-grit-peak-early-thursday-nights\/\" title=\"Spring TV Viewership Report &#8211; WWE Smackdown &#038; &#8220;American Grit&#8221; peak early on Thursdays\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2710,"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":[3],"tags":[1001,783,116,72,401,117,1716],"class_list":["post-22404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-american-grit","tag-fox","tag-john-cena","tag-smackdown","tag-tv-ratings","tag-wwe-smackdown","tag-wwe-tv-ratings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo-SmackdownArena-3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404","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=22404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22411,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404\/revisions\/22411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}