{"id":75176,"date":"2019-02-14T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=75176"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:38","slug":"smackdown-rating-how-did-wwe-compare-to-espns-duke-louisville-game-and-nbas-celtics-76ers-game-trends-compared-to-past-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/02\/14\/smackdown-rating-how-did-wwe-compare-to-espns-duke-louisville-game-and-nbas-celtics-76ers-game-trends-compared-to-past-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: How did WWE compare to ESPN&#8217;s Duke-Louisville game and NBA&#8217;s Celtics-76ers game, trends compared to past two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1048112981\" 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 (Feb. 12) edition of WWE Smackdown Live drew a 1.54 rating, up from last week&#8217;s 1.39 (which went up against President Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address), and back within the range of the prior three weeks (1.58, 1.54, 1.55).<\/p>\n<p>One year ago Smackdown drew a 1.70 rating; two years ago this week Smackdown drew a 1.87 rating. So the year-to-year decline continues.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 average so far is 1.49 compared to last year&#8217;s average through this week of 1.75.<\/p>\n<p>Total viewership was 2.034 million. That was behind &#8220;Curse of Oak Island&#8221; on History Network (which drew 3.700 million viewers), &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; on Fox News (which drew 2.934 million), &#8220;Hannity&#8221; on Fox News (which drew 2.891 million viewers), and &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC (which drew 2.847 million viewers). Smackdown did outdraw the Duke vs. Louisville college basketball game on ESPN, which drew 1.875 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the key demographic of adults 18-49, Smackdown (0.7) finished third behind &#8220;Curse of Oak Island&#8221; (0.8) and the Celtics-76ers game on TNT (0.7).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/02\/12\/wwe-raw-ratings-hourly-viewership-trend-comparisons-to-cables-top-weekend-shows-and-ufc-other-key-metrics\/\">WWE Raw Ratings: How did Becky Lynch cliffhanger do holding viewers, hourly viewership trend, comparisons to cable\u2019s top weekend shows and UFC, other key metrics<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2490502475\"><div id=\"pwtor-1588463282\"><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 (Feb. 12) edition of WWE Smackdown Live drew a 1.54 rating, up from last week&#8217;s 1.39 (which went up against President Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address), and back within the range of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/02\/14\/smackdown-rating-how-did-wwe-compare-to-espns-duke-louisville-game-and-nbas-celtics-76ers-game-trends-compared-to-past-two-years\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: How did WWE compare to ESPN&#8217;s Duke-Louisville game and NBA&#8217;s Celtics-76ers game, trends compared to past two 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-75176","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\/75176","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=75176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75180,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75176\/revisions\/75180"}],"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=75176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}