{"id":31627,"date":"2016-09-14T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=31627"},"modified":"2016-09-14T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:04:50","slug":"913-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-sd-live-beat-raw-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/09\/14\/913-wwe-smackdown-tv-ratings-sd-live-beat-raw-week\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/13 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings &#8211; did SD Live beat Raw this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-382555853\" 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 perfect storm of Monday&#8217;s Raw going head-to-head to Week 1 of the NFL &amp;\u00a0DWTS combined with a post-PPV Smackdown featuring a new WWE champion produced a near-ratings victory for Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 13:\u00a0<\/strong>WWE Smackdown scored a 1.86 TV rating after the Backlash PPV, up from a 1.76 rating on Labor Day week.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown&#8217;s 1.86 nearly beat Monday&#8217;s Raw, which scored an historically-low 1.88 TV rating.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown drew 2.658 million viewers, up about 200,000 viewers (8.3 percent) from last week&#8217;s audience.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown was close to Raw, which averaged 2.690 million viewers over its three hours on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; DEMOGRAPHICS: Smackdown jumped one-tenth of a rating among adults 18-49. 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