{"id":65993,"date":"2018-09-12T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=65993"},"modified":"2018-09-12T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:21:01","slug":"smackdown-rating-drop-in-viewership-but-smackdown-top-non-political-news-show-in-total-viewers-no-4-in-key-demo-on-cable-tuesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/09\/12\/smackdown-rating-drop-in-viewership-but-smackdown-top-non-political-news-show-in-total-viewers-no-4-in-key-demo-on-cable-tuesday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Drop in viewership, but Smackdown top non-political news show in total viewers, no. 4 in key demo on cable Tuesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-598962696\" 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>Tuesday night&#8217;s (9\/11) WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.58 rating, below last week&#8217;s 1.68 rating and the lowest rating since the Aug. 14 episode drew a 1.55. The rolling ten-week average headed into this week was 1.60.\u00a0Total viewership was 2.229 million.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago this week, Smackdown drew a 1.93 rating and two years ago Smackdown drew a 1.86 rating. This year&#8217;s ratings for Smackdown are a sharper drop-off than Raw has experienced this year compared to the prior two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Smackdown average so far in 2018 is 1.69, down from a 1.75 average rating through this week in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the drop in rating, Smackdown still finished no. 2 among all cable shows in the key 18-49 demographic with a 0.7 rating (<a href=\"https:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/daily-ratings\/tuesday-cable-ratings-sept-11-2018\/\">SOURCE<\/a>). Only Mayans MC on FX did better with a 0.8 rating.<\/p>\n<p>In total viewership, Smackdown finished fourth among all shows. &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC was no. 1 with 3.493 million viewers, easy topping both Smackdown&#8217;s 2.229 million and Mayans MC&#8217;s 2.007 million. Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; finished no. 2 in overall viewers with 2.759 million. MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Last Word with Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell&#8221; finished no. 3 with 2.676 million, giving political news the top three spots on cable in overall viewership.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/08\/24\/interview-highlights-ember-moon-talks-with-lilian-garcia-about-her-debut-on-raw-dealing-with-bullying-and-accepting-being-different-repeated-wwe-tryouts\/\">Interview Highlights: Ember Moon talks with Lilian Garcia about her debut on Raw, dealing with bullying and accepting being different, repeated WWE tryouts<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-913091494\"><div id=\"pwtor-504328007\"><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>Tuesday night&#8217;s (9\/11) WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.58 rating, below last week&#8217;s 1.68 rating and the lowest rating since the Aug. 14 episode drew a 1.55. The rolling ten-week average headed <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/09\/12\/smackdown-rating-drop-in-viewership-but-smackdown-top-non-political-news-show-in-total-viewers-no-4-in-key-demo-on-cable-tuesday-night\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Drop in viewership, but Smackdown top non-political news show in total viewers, no. 4 in key demo on cable Tuesday night\">[&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/65993","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=65993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65996,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993\/revisions\/65996"}],"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=65993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}