{"id":83382,"date":"2019-07-18T01:07:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=83382"},"modified":"2019-07-18T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:07:59","slug":"smackdown-rating-back-at-the-top-of-cable-rankings-highest-viewership-since-post-wrestlemania-episodes-almost-beats-year-ago-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/07\/18\/smackdown-rating-back-at-the-top-of-cable-rankings-highest-viewership-since-post-wrestlemania-episodes-almost-beats-year-ago-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Rating: Back at the top of cable rankings, highest viewership since post-WrestleMania episodes, almost beats year-ago number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2411980327\" 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 16 episode of WWE Smackdown on USA Network drew a 1.55 rating and 2.122 million viewers among live and same-night-DVR viewers, up from the prior week&#8217;s 1.41 and well above the rolling ten week average heading into this week of 1.42.It&#8217;s the highest rating for Smackdown since the Superstar Shake-up week after WrestleMania on Apr. 16 when ratings were at or above 1.60 for seven straight weeks before the post-WrestleMania drop. It was the first viewership number above two million since June 4.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago Smackdown drew a 1.56, so this week&#8217;s rating almost topped the year-ago rating, which would have been the first instance of that this year.<\/p>\n<p>The current yearly average is 1.51, below the year-ago average through this week of 1.73. The rating two years ago this week was 1.70.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown finished on top of the Tuesday cable rankings among the 18-49 demographic with a 0.7 rating, reclaiming the top rope above Bravo&#8217;s &#8220;Housewives of Beverly Bills&#8221; which drew a 0.6. &#8220;Chrisly Knows Best&#8221; on USA following Smackdown drew a 0.4 rating in that demo and finished third for the night with total viewership fo 1.212.<\/p>\n<p>Three cable news shows topped Smackdown in total viewers on Tuesday night &#8211; &#8220;Hannity&#8221; and &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; on Fox News and &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/07\/18\/raw-rating-all-star-battle-royal-boosts-raw-to-best-rating-since-right-after-wrestlemania-third-hour-beats-first-hour-raw-back-to-top-of-cable-rankings-on-monday\/\">Raw Rating: All-Star Battle Royal boosts Raw to best rating since right after WrestleMania, third hour beats first hour, Raw back to top of cable rankings on Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-111180858\"><div id=\"pwtor-4122716163\"><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 16 episode of WWE Smackdown on USA Network drew a 1.55 rating and 2.122 million viewers among live and same-night-DVR viewers, up from the prior week&#8217;s 1.41 and well above the rolling ten <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/07\/18\/smackdown-rating-back-at-the-top-of-cable-rankings-highest-viewership-since-post-wrestlemania-episodes-almost-beats-year-ago-number\/\" title=\"Smackdown Rating: Back at the top of cable rankings, highest viewership since post-WrestleMania episodes, almost beats year-ago number\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41513,"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-83382","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\/04\/SmackdownLiveSet_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83382","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=83382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83383,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83382\/revisions\/83383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}