{"id":26196,"date":"2016-07-19T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=26196"},"modified":"2016-07-19T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:40:08","slug":"714-wwe-smackdown-tv-rating-sinks-final-thursday-airing-huge-dvr-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/19\/714-wwe-smackdown-tv-rating-sinks-final-thursday-airing-huge-dvr-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/14 WWE Smackdown TV rating sinks for final Thursday airing, but huge DVR bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1505328276\" 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 final Thursday night Smackdown airing drew a poor TV audience to finish the era. However, DVR viewing uncharacteristically skyrocketed for Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 14:\u00a0<\/strong>WWE Smackdown scored a 1.56 TV rating, down from a 1.62 rating last week.<\/p>\n<p>The live viewing audience was 2.068 million viewers, down 7.7 percent from last week.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second-fewest live viewers of the year, ending the Thursday night run with a whimper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Demographically, there was\u00a0a huge drop of 26 percent in males 18-49 viewers to the lowest m18-49 rating of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, adults 18-49 fell 18 percent and males 18-34 fell 19 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Then, there was a sudden, unexplained huge surge in DVR viewing. Most of this can be\u00a0attributed to a 22 percent addition in the m18-49 demo after falling off the table Thursday night.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2807565488\" 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>Overall, Smackdown added 345,000 delayed viewers, nearly doubling last week&#8217;s DVR audience of 177,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>It was by far the most DVR viewers added this year, topping the previous high of 262,000 viewers back in March.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smackdown First-Run: 2.068 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>DVR added 345,000 viewers<\/li>\n<li>TOTAL AUDIENCE: 2.413 million viewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The huge surge in DVR viewing was nearly enough to match\u00a0last week&#8217;s total audience.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a total audience of 2.413 million viewers, just slightly down from 2.418 million total viewers for the July 7 episode with Brock Lesnar&#8217;s Summerslam announcement.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tablepress-10-name\" class=\"tablepress-table-name tablepress-table-name-id-10\">WWE Smackdown Q3 2016 Total Viewers<\/h2>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-10\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-10\" aria-labelledby=\"tablepress-10-name\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Week<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Date<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">TV<br \/>\nRating<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Cbl<br \/>\nRank<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Live<br \/>\nViewers<\/th><th class=\"column-6\">DVR<\/th><th class=\"column-7\">TOTAL<br \/>\nVIEWERS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7\/7\/16<br \/>\nBrock News<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">1.62<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">3<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">2,241,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">177,000<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">2,418,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7\/14\/16<br \/>\nFinal Th.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">1.56<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">7<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">2,068,000<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">345,000<br \/>\n(#1 2016)<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">2,413,000<br \/>\n(-0.2%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-10 from cache -->\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3395866328\"><div id=\"pwtor-2030712719\"><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 final Thursday night Smackdown airing drew a poor TV audience to finish the era. 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