{"id":85358,"date":"2019-08-28T23:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=85358"},"modified":"2019-08-28T23:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:20:14","slug":"wwe-smackdown-rating-to-end-the-summer-and-comparisons-to-past-two-years-key-metrics-plus-miz-mrs-viewership-and-cable-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/08\/28\/wwe-smackdown-rating-to-end-the-summer-and-comparisons-to-past-two-years-key-metrics-plus-miz-mrs-viewership-and-cable-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Smackdown Rating to end the summer and comparisons to past two years, key metrics, plus Miz &#038; Mrs viewership and cable ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1715522719\" 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>WWE Smackdown last night drew a 1.50 rating, a pretty typical rating for Smackdown lately, as the ten-week rolling average is 1.49. Last week Smackdown drew a 1.56. August finished with a 1.54 rating, above the 1.46 for July and 1.40 for June. It nearly matches the 1.55 average for April.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago this week Smackdown drew a 1.62, two years ago a 1.74, so each of the last two years Smackdown dropped 0.12 from the prior year.\u00a0Smackdown&#8217;s average viewership this year is 1.51, down from last year&#8217;s 1.71.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown finished atop Tuesday&#8217;s cable ratings in the key 18-49 demographic with a 0.6 rating, edging &#8220;Real Housewives of the OC&#8221; on Bravo, which drew a 0.5 rating in that demo. &#8220;Miz &amp; Mrs&#8221; following Smackdown finished third overall with a 04 rating and 1.094 million viewers, beating &#8220;Growing Up Chrisley&#8221; which followed it which drew 741,000 viewers. The most viewed show of the night among the top 15 shows in the 18-49 demo was &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC with 2.690 million viewers. &#8220;Hannity&#8221; on Fox News drew 3.167 million viewers and just snuck in at the no. 25 spot in the key demo rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-631123433\"><div id=\"pwtor-1860192501\"><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>WWE Smackdown last night drew a 1.50 rating, a pretty typical rating for Smackdown lately, as the ten-week rolling average is 1.49. Last week Smackdown drew a 1.56. August finished with a 1.54 rating, above <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/08\/28\/wwe-smackdown-rating-to-end-the-summer-and-comparisons-to-past-two-years-key-metrics-plus-miz-mrs-viewership-and-cable-ranking\/\" title=\"WWE Smackdown Rating to end the summer and comparisons to past two years, key metrics, plus Miz &#038; Mrs viewership and cable ranking\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78029,"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-85358","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\/04\/SmackdownSetFrankPetiani_2019_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85358","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=85358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85361,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85358\/revisions\/85361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}