{"id":50989,"date":"2017-11-15T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=50989"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:05:26","slug":"smackdown-rating-viewership-number-key-metrics-final-survivor-series-hype-including-raw-retaliation-two-title-matches-wkellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/11\/15\/smackdown-rating-viewership-number-key-metrics-final-survivor-series-hype-including-raw-retaliation-two-title-matches-wkellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Viewership number and key metrics for final Survivor Series hype including Raw retaliation, two title matches (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3554631543\" 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 episode of WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.86 rating among live and same-night-DVR viewership. That matches last week&#8217;s rating. Viewership was 2.607 million, up from 2.603 million last week (so a negligible increase of 4,000 viewers, within the margin of error).<\/p>\n<p>The rolling ten week average headed into this week was 1.74, so it&#8217;s above that, but Smackdown didn&#8217;t see the bump in rating that Raw experienced the night before.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 average for Smackdown is now 1.76, above the 1.72 average for 2016 to this point. The ten week rolling average, though, is above last year&#8217;s ten-week rolling average through this week or 1.67 (it&#8217;s 1.75 counting this week&#8217;s rating).<\/p>\n<p><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: The difference between Raw&#8217;s 2.14 and Smackdown&#8217;s 1.86 isn&#8217;t great, but it says something about Smackdown as a &#8220;B-brand&#8221; that even with A.J. Styles wining the championship and an connective angle between \u00a0the two shows that there is still a gap of over 400,000 viewers, on average, that watch Raw and skip Smackdown (assuming the rest watch both, which of course isn&#8217;t true, but the percentage who watch just one show and not the other should, in theory, also be even enough that the 400,000 difference is relevant). If you compare Smackdown&#8217;s two hour average viewership of 2.6 million to Raw&#8217;s third hour viewership of 2.8 million, that gap is quite a bit smaller. Compared to the first hour viewership of Raw, though, there&#8217;s a much bigger difference (2.6 compared to 3.3 million).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1125193077\"><div id=\"pwtor-2529377454\"><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 episode of WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.86 rating among live and same-night-DVR viewership. That matches last week&#8217;s rating. Viewership was 2.607 million, up from 2.603 million last week (so <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/11\/15\/smackdown-rating-viewership-number-key-metrics-final-survivor-series-hype-including-raw-retaliation-two-title-matches-wkellers-analysis\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Viewership number and key metrics for final Survivor Series hype including Raw retaliation, two title matches (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)\">[&#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":[46,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"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\/50989","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=50989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50992,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions\/50992"}],"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=50989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}