{"id":36542,"date":"2016-12-19T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=36542"},"modified":"2016-12-19T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:44:52","slug":"smackdown-rating-perspective-last-weeks-rating-fits-fall-seasons-trends-highs-lows-wkellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/19\/smackdown-rating-perspective-last-weeks-rating-fits-fall-seasons-trends-highs-lows-wkellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Perspective on last week&#8217;s rating and how it fits into fall season&#8217;s trends, highs, lows (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2376547485\" 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 last week drew a 1.71 rating, down from the 1.78 the week before. The rating is right in line with the rolling ten-week average, excluding the Thanksgiving edition. The rating is below the November non-holiday average of 1.76, above the October average of 1.64, and below the September average of 1.75 and August average of 1.83.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: The rating is also right in line with the fall average of 1.69. There was a jump after Thanksgiving to a 1.95, a surge from the 1.56 and 1.58 ratings the two weeks before thanksgiving.\u00a0The range of\u00a0ratings is great enough this season (1.56 non-holiday low to a 1.95 non-holiday high) that there are factors outside of WWE&#8217;s control and also within WWE&#8217;s control that can sway ratings,\u00a0but they&#8217;re often blips that end up averaging out weeks later.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3192944555\"><div id=\"pwtor-1151582192\"><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 last week drew a 1.71 rating, down from the 1.78 the week before. The rating is right in line with the rolling ten-week average, excluding the Thanksgiving edition. The rating is below the November <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/19\/smackdown-rating-perspective-last-weeks-rating-fits-fall-seasons-trends-highs-lows-wkellers-analysis\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Perspective on last week&#8217;s rating and how it fits into fall season&#8217;s trends, highs, lows (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2710,"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":[235,72],"class_list":["post-36542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-ratings","tag-smackdown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Logo-SmackdownArena-3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36542","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=36542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36543,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36542\/revisions\/36543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}