{"id":38429,"date":"2017-02-03T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=38429"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:34:09","slug":"smackdown-rating-perspective-weeks-highest-rating-since-dec-27-monthly-average-perspective-compared-year-ago-wkellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/03\/smackdown-rating-perspective-weeks-highest-rating-since-dec-27-monthly-average-perspective-compared-year-ago-wkellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Perspective on this week&#8217;s highest rating since Dec. 27, monthly average, perspective compared to year ago (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-586372115\" 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>This week&#8217;s WWE Smackdown Live drew a 2.o0 rating on USA Network, up from the 1.79 last week and the highest rating since the Dec. 27 2.02 high water mark since the roster split last summer. The ten-week rolling average going into this week was 1.81, so it&#8217;s well above recent levels.<\/p>\n<p>January ends with a 1.86 average rating, above the 1.84 average for\u00a0December, 1.76 average for November, and the 1.64 average in October. It did average a 1.83 in August before taking a dip in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago Smackdown drew a 1.87 rating for the show after the Royal Rumble.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: A good number, but way out of range of beating Ra as it did the last week of December. Coming two days after the Royal Rumble, it&#8217;s no surprise the show would do around 10 percent better than usual.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4172008316\"><div id=\"pwtor-566314075\"><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>This week&#8217;s WWE Smackdown Live drew a 2.o0 rating on USA Network, up from the 1.79 last week and the highest rating since the Dec. 27 2.02 high water mark since the roster split last <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/03\/smackdown-rating-perspective-weeks-highest-rating-since-dec-27-monthly-average-perspective-compared-year-ago-wkellers-analysis\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Perspective on this week&#8217;s highest rating since Dec. 27, monthly average, perspective compared to year ago (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":[1514],"class_list":["post-38429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-smackdown-rating"],"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\/38429","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=38429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38430,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions\/38430"}],"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=38429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}