{"id":44882,"date":"2017-07-12T23:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=44882"},"modified":"2017-07-12T23:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T04:29:29","slug":"smackdown-rating-rating-rebound-fourth-july-drop-off-john-cena-centerpiece-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/07\/12\/smackdown-rating-rating-rebound-fourth-july-drop-off-john-cena-centerpiece-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Did the rating rebound after the Fourth of July drop-off with John Cena a centerpiece of the show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3456474885\" 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 rating on USA Network for live and same-night-DVR viewership was 1.65, a modest boost above the Fourth of July rating last week of 1.59. It&#8217;s below the 2017 average going into this week of 1.77, but above the ten week rolling going into this week of 1.62.<\/p>\n<p>Total viewership was 2.465 million.<\/p>\n<p>The average rating this year of 1.76 is still above last year&#8217;s average through this date of 1.69.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: This is in the range of expectations coming out of a holiday week. The return of John Cena didn&#8217;t have a significant influence on what you&#8217;d have predicted the rating to be this week even if he hadn&#8217;t returned last week to the mix.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1981347501\"><div id=\"pwtor-3176962282\"><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 rating on USA Network for live and same-night-DVR viewership was 1.65, a modest boost above the Fourth of July rating last week of 1.59. It&#8217;s below the 2017 average going <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/07\/12\/smackdown-rating-rating-rebound-fourth-july-drop-off-john-cena-centerpiece-show\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Did the rating rebound after the Fourth of July drop-off with John Cena a centerpiece of the show?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40043,"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":[116,1514],"class_list":["post-44882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-john-cena","tag-smackdown-rating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/03\/SmackdownStage_WK3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44882","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=44882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44883,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44882\/revisions\/44883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}