{"id":27251,"date":"2016-07-27T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=27251"},"modified":"2016-07-28T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:30:00","slug":"726-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-official-week-1-farea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/27\/726-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-official-week-1-farea\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/26 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings &#8211; how did the official Week 1 fare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1604051511\" 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><strong>By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the start of a new era for Smackdown following last week&#8217;s Live Smackdown\/Draft Special that gave way to the first official week of Smackdown having its own audience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 26:\u00a0<\/strong>The first official Smackdown Live scored a 1.92 TV rating.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown drew 2.743 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s Live Smackdown\/Draft special scored a 2.20 rating and drew 3.170 million viewers. So, this week&#8217;s episode was off the pace by about 13 percent from last week&#8217;s TV special.<\/p>\n<p>The rating &amp; viewership compares to the premiere episode of Smackdown on USA Network back on January 7.<\/p>\n<p>The switch from Syfy to USA scored a 1.93 rating and drew 2.757 million viewers, nearly identical to this week&#8217;s Week 1 brand split.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3871526598\" 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>&#8211; DEMOGRAPHICS: Smackdown fell 23-31 percent from last week&#8217;s Live Smackdown\/Draft special, much greater than the TV Rating and viewership.<\/p>\n<p>But, the adults 18-49, males 18-34, and males 18-49 ratings were the second-highest of the year behind last week&#8217;s special.<\/p>\n<p>The demos were also better than the Jan. 7 USA premiere episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caldwell&#8217;s Analysis:\u00a0<\/strong>If Week 1 could have grabbed a 2.0, USA and WWE would have been really pleased. Slightly below 2.0 to set the baseline for this new era is a fine start, but not in the ballpark of Raw, which opened with a 2.36 rating. Overall, Smackdown seemed to be missing a\u00a0spark that Raw had on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brand Split Wars &#8211; Week 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 25 Raw: 2.36 rating \/ 3.338 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>July 26 SD: 1.92 rating \/ 2.743 million viewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4225409989\"><div id=\"pwtor-484362431\"><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>By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor It was the start of a new era for Smackdown following last week&#8217;s Live Smackdown\/Draft Special that gave way to the first official week of Smackdown having its own <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/27\/726-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-official-week-1-farea\/\" title=\"7\/26 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings &#8211; how did the official Week 1 fare?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27171,"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":[3516,1394,2872,401,71,117,1716],"class_list":["post-27251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-july-26-smackdown","tag-live-smackdown","tag-smackdown-live","tag-tv-ratings","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown","tag-wwe-tv-ratings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/07\/Logo_SmackdownLive2016_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251","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=27251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27322,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions\/27322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}