{"id":40257,"date":"2017-03-22T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=40257"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:34:53","slug":"smackdown-rating-last-nights-rating-viewership-comparison-ten-week-average-wkellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/03\/22\/smackdown-rating-last-nights-rating-viewership-comparison-ten-week-average-wkellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Last night&#8217;s rating, viewership, comparison to ten-week average (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2006654860\" 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>Last night&#8217;s\u00a0WWE Smackdown Live episode drew a 1.79 rating, tied with last week&#8217;s number. Viewership was up a small tick, from 2.628 million to 2.247 million, well within the margin of Nielson Ratings sampling error. This week&#8217;s show didn&#8217;t have any big matches advertised ahead of time, but did build around the follow-up to last week&#8217;s show-closing angle with A.J. Styles and Shane McMahon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: The rolling ten week average coming into this week was 1.85. The 2017 average is 1.84. Coming two weeks before WrestleMania, ideally WWE would like to see an indication of a peak of interest in the product as top storylines come to a crescendo, although this year the biggest WrestleMania storylines are more concentrated on the Raw brand. Compared to last year, though, this is pretty typical. Last year&#8217;s rating this week was 1.75. The 2016 average through this date was 1.78. So a year ago, the rating was also slightly below the average to that point in the year.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1489651890\"><div id=\"pwtor-1417916559\"><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>Last night&#8217;s\u00a0WWE Smackdown Live episode drew a 1.79 rating, tied with last week&#8217;s number. Viewership was up a small tick, from 2.628 million to 2.247 million, well within the margin of Nielson Ratings sampling error. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/03\/22\/smackdown-rating-last-nights-rating-viewership-comparison-ten-week-average-wkellers-analysis\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Last night&#8217;s rating, viewership, comparison to ten-week average (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40223,"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":[72,1514],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-smackdown","tag-smackdown-rating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/03\/SmackdownRingWide_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257","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=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40260,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions\/40260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}