{"id":70250,"date":"2018-11-21T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=70250"},"modified":"2018-11-21T23:20:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:20:46","slug":"smackdown-rating-college-basketball-knocks-wwe-down-a-notch-key-metrics-comparison-to-other-top-cable-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/11\/21\/smackdown-rating-college-basketball-knocks-wwe-down-a-notch-key-metrics-comparison-to-other-top-cable-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: College Basketball knocks WWE down a notch, key metrics, comparison to other top cable shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1968766834\" 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 WWE Smackdown on USA Network drew a 1.52 rating, down from last week&#8217;s 1.63 rating and above the 1.51 from two weeks ago, among live and same-night-DVR viewers. The rolling ten-week average is 1.57. Viewership was 2.150 million, down from 2.312 million last week.<\/p>\n<p>The rating this week is down from the year-ago rating of 1.86 and the two-years-ago rating was 1.72.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 average is 1.67, down from 1.75 one year ago this week.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown took a hit from ESPN&#8217;s Duke vs. Auburn college basketball game, which topped the cable ratings among 18-49 year old viewers with a 0.8 rating according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/daily-ratings\/tuesday-cable-ratings-november-20-2018\/\">TVByTheNumbers<\/a>. In total viewers, it edged Smackdown by 17,000 viewers. Smackdown did finish no. 2 overall among the 18-49 demographic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Curse of Oak Island&#8221; on History Channel was the most viewed show with 2.914 million viewers followed by &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC with 2.851 million viewers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/11\/20\/raw-rating-up-against-stellar-monday-night-football-match-up-on-espn-raw-drops-to-one-of-lowest-ratings-of-all-time\/\">Raw Rating: Up against stellar Monday Night Football match-up on ESPN, Raw drops to one of lowest ratings of all time<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1102947333\"><div id=\"pwtor-3253865050\"><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 WWE Smackdown on USA Network drew a 1.52 rating, down from last week&#8217;s 1.63 rating and above the 1.51 from two weeks ago, among live and same-night-DVR viewers. The rolling ten-week average is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/11\/21\/smackdown-rating-college-basketball-knocks-wwe-down-a-notch-key-metrics-comparison-to-other-top-cable-shows\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: College Basketball knocks WWE down a notch, key metrics, comparison to other top cable shows\">[&#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-70250","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\/70250","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=70250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70251,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70250\/revisions\/70251"}],"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=70250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}