{"id":33451,"date":"2016-10-12T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=33451"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:32:00","slug":"smackdown-ratings-last-week-eight-week-average-wkellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/10\/12\/smackdown-ratings-last-week-eight-week-average-wkellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown ratings up from last week but down from eight week average (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2085178194\" 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>Smackdown drew a 1.72 rating last night, up from last week&#8217;s rating of 1.58, and more in line with the previous two weeks of 1.69 and 1.70. The bump from last week could be attributed to being the first show after a PPV event, although it&#8217;s not\u00a0above the average of the previous eight weeks, which was 1.77.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis:\u00a0This at least prevents last week&#8217;s rating from appearing to be the start of a new normal below 1.60. The fact that it&#8217;s still lower than the prior eight week average just two days after No Mercy shows the &#8220;PPV bump&#8221; might not apply to single-brand PPVs like No Mercy that, frankly, a lot of people forgot was even occurring.\u00a0Smackdown still can&#8217;t beat Raw, but that 0.19 gap is something that over time could narrow if Smackdown&#8217;s two hour show over time can win over people who are skipping most or some of Raw due to Monday Night Football, but are still looking for their &#8220;WWE fix.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2660016192\"><div id=\"pwtor-79036855\"><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>Smackdown drew a 1.72 rating last night, up from last week&#8217;s rating of 1.58, and more in line with the previous two weeks of 1.69 and 1.70. The bump from last week could be attributed <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/10\/12\/smackdown-ratings-last-week-eight-week-average-wkellers-analysis\/\" title=\"Smackdown ratings up from last week but down from eight week average (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)\">[&#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":[2,3],"tags":[502,235,72],"class_list":["post-33451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-no-mercy","tag-ratings","tag-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\/33451","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=33451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33452,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions\/33452"}],"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=33451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}