{"id":27320,"date":"2016-07-27T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=27320"},"modified":"2016-07-27T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:57:53","slug":"726-smackdown-ratings-thursday-level-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/27\/726-smackdown-ratings-thursday-level-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/26 Smackdown ratings above Thursday level, below Raw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1765251077\" 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 Wade Keller, PWTorch editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.92 rating and viewership of 2.743 million viewers. This is down from last week&#8217;s 2.20 rating and down 447,000 viewers. As Corey Graves said on Raw, Smackdown last week had the benefit of hosting the live draft and featuring all of the now Raw-exclusive wrestlers. Raw drew a 2.36 rating on Monday night, so the new &#8220;ratings battle&#8221; kicks off with Raw with a 19 percent lead over Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keller&#8217;s Analysis:<\/strong> On Tuesday&#8217;s PWTorch Livecast I told Jason Powell my over\/under on ratings was a 2.4 for Raw and a 2.0 for Smackdown, so both ratings came in slightly below my expectations, but proportionately about what I had anticipated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3281274781\"><div id=\"pwtor-1160461593\"><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 Wade Keller, PWTorch editor Last night&#8217;s WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.92 rating and viewership of 2.743 million viewers. This is down from last week&#8217;s 2.20 rating and down 447,000 viewers. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/27\/726-smackdown-ratings-thursday-level-raw\/\" title=\"7\/26 Smackdown ratings above Thursday level, below Raw\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3516,1394,72,2872,401,117],"class_list":["post-27320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-july-26-smackdown","tag-live-smackdown","tag-smackdown","tag-smackdown-live","tag-tv-ratings","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"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\/27320","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=27320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27323,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions\/27323"}],"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=27320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}