{"id":71478,"date":"2018-12-12T20:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T02:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=71478"},"modified":"2018-12-12T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T03:03:07","slug":"smackdown-ratings-another-show-drawing-fewer-than-2-million-viewers-smackdown-drops-out-of-top-five-tuesday-cable-shows-in-viewership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/12\/12\/smackdown-ratings-another-show-drawing-fewer-than-2-million-viewers-smackdown-drops-out-of-top-five-tuesday-cable-shows-in-viewership\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Ratings: Another show drawing fewer than 2 million viewers, Smackdown drops out of top five Tuesday cable shows in viewership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4202629937\" 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 on USA Network drew a 1.43 rating, an uptick from last week&#8217;s record low 1.39 rating. It was the second-lowest rating in Smackdown history with a total viewership of 1.977 million viewers. It&#8217;s the second week in a row Smackdown drew below 2 million viewers, and the second time in history.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s rating is down from the year-ago rating of 1.72 and the two-years-ago rating of 1.74.<\/p>\n<p>The average rating this month so far is 1.41, down from 1.56 last month and 1.56 in October and 1.62 in September. Last year, September averaged a 1.78 rating and a 1.75 rating in December. Two years ago Smackdown averaged a 1.75 rating in September and a 1.84 in December. So this is not a &#8220;season trend&#8221; and it is not associate with only Raw or only Smackdown, so it can&#8217;t be attributed to a specific wrestler being absent (Roman Reigns) or overpushed (Baron Corbin) or turned (Daniel Bryan). This is an alarming trend of viewers abandoning both weekly shows that they&#8217;ve watched for years.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown finished no. 3 among all above shows in the coveted 18-49 demographic with a 0.7 rating, behind &#8220;Curse of Oak Island&#8221; on History Channel (also drawing a 0.7, but 1.2 million more viewers in total) and the top show, &#8220;Below Deck&#8221; on Bravo (drawing a 0.8 and around 143,000 more total viewers). Smackdown didn&#8217;t finish among the top five shows on cable in total viewers, though.<\/p>\n<p>USA Network&#8217;s &#8220;Christly Knows Best&#8221; following Smackdown drew a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demo and 1.093 million total viewers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/12\/12\/raw-ratings-another-record-low-as-ex-creative-team-members-vent-about-working-conditions-seth-says-miracle-shows-are-as-good-as-they-are\/\">Raw Ratings: Another record low as ex-Creative Team members vent about working conditions, Seth says miracle shows are as good as they are<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1363749335\"><div id=\"pwtor-3368720473\"><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 on USA Network drew a 1.43 rating, an uptick from last week&#8217;s record low 1.39 rating. It was the second-lowest rating in Smackdown history with a total viewership of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/12\/12\/smackdown-ratings-another-show-drawing-fewer-than-2-million-viewers-smackdown-drops-out-of-top-five-tuesday-cable-shows-in-viewership\/\" title=\"Smackdown Ratings: Another show drawing fewer than 2 million viewers, Smackdown drops out of top five Tuesday cable shows in viewership\">[&#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-71478","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\/71478","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=71478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71485,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478\/revisions\/71485"}],"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=71478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}