{"id":82453,"date":"2019-07-04T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=82453"},"modified":"2019-07-04T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:59:12","slug":"smackdown-rating-wwe-tops-all-cable-shows-tuesday-night-in-key-18-49-demo-rating-remains-well-below-year-ago-and-two-years-ago-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/07\/04\/smackdown-rating-wwe-tops-all-cable-shows-tuesday-night-in-key-18-49-demo-rating-remains-well-below-year-ago-and-two-years-ago-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: WWE tops all cable shows Tuesday night in key 18-49 demo, outdraws in total viewership Fox broadcast Friday reruns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1828978951\" 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>The July 2 episode of WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.39 rating among live and same-night-DVR viewers, down slightly from last week&#8217;s 1.40 and below the ten-weekly rolling average headed into the week of 1.43. Total viewership was 1.980 million, up from last week&#8217;s 1.921 million viewership.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, Smackdown drew a 1.45 rating and two years ago it drew a 1.59 rating.<\/p>\n<p>In the key 18-49 adult demographic, Smackdown was ranked no. 1 on cable for the night with a 0.6 rating. There were three shows with 0.4 ratings below it, including &#8220;Christly Knows Best.&#8221; The Fox News program &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; outdrew Smackdown by a million total viewers, but it barely made it in the top 25 rankings in the key 18-49 adult demo.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox broadcast network last Friday night, the network and night of the week Smackdown will move to this fall, drew 1.61 and 1.16 million viewers, repeats of &#8220;First Responders Live&#8221; and &#8220;Master Chef,&#8221; so Smackdown easily outdrew summer reruns on Fox broadcast network with its current viewership.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night Raw&#8217;s three hours topped Monday cable rankings in the 18-49 demo with 0.8 ratings each hour. The next best ranked shows drew ratings of 0.7 and 0.6, and then it dropped off to a series of shows with 0.4 ratings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/07\/02\/raw-rating-the-paul-heyman-executive-director-era-begins-with-some-notable-metrics-including-small-third-hour-drop-off\/\">Raw Rating: The Paul Heyman Executive Director era begins with some notable metrics, including small third hour drop-off<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3935321960\"><div id=\"pwtor-3880669688\"><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>The July 2 episode of WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.39 rating among live and same-night-DVR viewers, down slightly from last week&#8217;s 1.40 and below the ten-weekly rolling average headed into the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/07\/04\/smackdown-rating-wwe-tops-all-cable-shows-tuesday-night-in-key-18-49-demo-rating-remains-well-below-year-ago-and-two-years-ago-levels\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: WWE tops all cable shows Tuesday night in key 18-49 demo, outdraws in total viewership Fox broadcast Friday reruns\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73588,"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-82453","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\/2019\/01\/SmackdownRingStepsWoodGreg_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453","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=82453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82500,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453\/revisions\/82500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}