{"id":66725,"date":"2018-09-28T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T22:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=66725"},"modified":"2018-09-28T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T22:36:36","slug":"smackdown-rating-key-metrics-for-episode-at-the-very-top-of-all-tuesday-cable-shows-in-key-demo-comparisons-to-past-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/09\/28\/smackdown-rating-key-metrics-for-episode-at-the-very-top-of-all-tuesday-cable-shows-in-key-demo-comparisons-to-past-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Key metrics for episode at the very top of all Tuesday cable shows in key demo, comparisons to past years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1901940041\" 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 episode of WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.57 rating, down from last week&#8217;s rating of 1.65 and down from the year-ago-this-week rating of 1.73 and two-years-ago rating of 1.69.<\/p>\n<p>Total viewership was 2.193 million, just 82,000 lower than the &#8220;A-show&#8221; Raw&#8217;s least viewed hour (second hour) this week. Last week&#8217;s Smackdown viewership of 2.281 million was a virtual tie with this week&#8217;s least viewed Raw hour (a difference of 12,000).<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown finished no. 1 overall in the nightly cable rankings in the coveted 18-49 year old demographic with a 0.7 rating, beating &#8220;Mayans MC&#8221; on FX which started after Smackdown and drew a 0.6 rating. Smackdown was the seventh highest watched show among all viewers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/daily-ratings\/tuesday-cable-ratings-sept-25-2018\/\">Top 25 18-49 chart<\/a>. It&#8217;s 2.193 million viewers was well under &#8220;Hannity&#8221; on Fox News which drew 3.406 million and &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC which drew 3.023 million. Smackdown was the top rated non-politics\/news show in overall viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 average rating for Smackdown is 1.69, which is below the 2017 average through this week of 1.75.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THIS REPORT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/09\/25\/raw-ratings-a-nearly-record-low-rating-and-sharp-drop-off-for-last-nights-usa-network-flagship-program-w-kellers-analysis\/\">Raw Ratings: A nearly record-low rating and sharp drop-off for last night\u2019s USA Network flagship program (w\/Keller\u2019s Analysis)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3999310753\"><div id=\"pwtor-2302206436\"><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 episode of WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.57 rating, down from last week&#8217;s rating of 1.65 and down from the year-ago-this-week rating of 1.73 and two-years-ago rating of 1.69. Total <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/09\/28\/smackdown-rating-key-metrics-for-episode-at-the-very-top-of-all-tuesday-cable-shows-in-key-demo-comparisons-to-past-years\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Key metrics for episode at the very top of all Tuesday cable shows in key demo, comparisons to past years\">[&#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":[],"class_list":["post-66725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/66725","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=66725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66726,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66725\/revisions\/66726"}],"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=66725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}