{"id":86619,"date":"2019-09-25T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=86619"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:42:36","slug":"smackdown-final-tuesday-usa-network-rating-key-metrics-compared-to-prior-four-years-viewership-compared-to-breaking-political-news-fox-ad-buys-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/09\/25\/smackdown-final-tuesday-usa-network-rating-key-metrics-compared-to-prior-four-years-viewership-compared-to-breaking-political-news-fox-ad-buys-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown final Tuesday USA Network rating, key metrics compared to prior four years, viewership compared to breaking political news, Fox ad buys update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2609389372\" 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 Sept. 24 WWE Smackdown Live, the final Tuesday episode on USA Network, drew a 1.53 rating. That is a notch above last week&#8217;s 1.52 and nearly even with every rating in August and September, which has averaged a 1.54 rating and had a narrow range of 1.50-1.57.<\/p>\n<p>The last eight weeks have averaged a 1.54 rating, down from the same eight week period last year which averaged 1.62. \u00a0The 2019 average is 1.51, down from last year&#8217;s averaged through this week of 1.70. The same eight week period two years ago averaged 1.77. Three years ago it the same period averaged 1.79. This year&#8217;s drop-off from the prior year in this time period is 0.19, nearly triple the 0.7 drop-off between 2017 and 2018, and nearly ten times the drop-off between 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Not soon enough, everything changes next week with a new network and new day, with massive support from Fox broadcast network, which <a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/media\/fox-wwe-land-progressive-presenting-sponsor-friday-night-smackdown\/2200021\">Ad Age reports<\/a> has drawn 20 new sponsors who have never purchased ads on WWE programming before.<\/p>\n<p>Viewership was 2.099 million. By comparison, Raw&#8217;s third hour drew 2.044 million, a rare hour of Raw that drew less than Smackdown. Also of note, NXT on USA last week drew 1.179 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown two years ago this week drew 1.73 and three years ago this week drew 1.69.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown topped table ratings for the night in the key 18-49 demographic with a 0.7 rating, followed by &#8220;Real Housewives of OC&#8221; on Bravo which drew a 0.5. The big night of political news led to increased competition from cable networks, with MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Rachel Maddow&#8221; finishing fourth overall with a 0.4 demo rating and third most viewers overall for the night, beating Smackdown by 1.2 million viewers. &#8220;Hannity&#8221; on Fox drew a lower demo rating of 0.3, but more total viewers with 3.8 million total viewers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/09\/24\/raw-beats-year-ago-rating-for-only-second-time-this-year-still-well-below-ten-week-average-nfl-comparison-other-key-metrics\/\">Raw beats year-ago rating for only second time this year, still well below ten-week average, NFL comparison, other key metrics<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-494920686\"><div id=\"pwtor-1413725922\"><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 Sept. 24 WWE Smackdown Live, the final Tuesday episode on USA Network, drew a 1.53 rating. That is a notch above last week&#8217;s 1.52 and nearly even with every rating in August and September, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/09\/25\/smackdown-final-tuesday-usa-network-rating-key-metrics-compared-to-prior-four-years-viewership-compared-to-breaking-political-news-fox-ad-buys-update\/\" title=\"Smackdown final Tuesday USA Network rating, key metrics compared to prior four years, viewership compared to breaking political news, Fox ad buys update\">[&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/86619","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=86619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86620,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86619\/revisions\/86620"}],"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=86619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}