{"id":87181,"date":"2019-10-05T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=87181"},"modified":"2019-10-05T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T20:00:14","slug":"debut-of-friday-night-smackdown-on-fox-scores-some-blockbuster-first-week-numbers-key-metrics-fox-bragging-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/10\/05\/debut-of-friday-night-smackdown-on-fox-scores-some-blockbuster-first-week-numbers-key-metrics-fox-bragging-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut of Friday Night Smackdown on Fox scores some blockbuster first-week numbers, key metrics, Fox bragging points"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1374825749\" 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 debut episode of WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox drew 3.896 million viewers, according to overnight broadcast ratings. The show was no. 1, by a wide margin, in pretty much every demographic. Fox, in a press release, touted that the viewership marked an 85 percent jump over the previous four weeks of Smackdown ratings, which averaged 2.098 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Apr. 9, 2018 Raw&#8217;s first hour drew 4.098 million viewers. The Jan. 22, 2018 episode of Raw drew 4.803 million viewers in the first hour and averaged a higher viewership number; that was the &#8220;Raw 25&#8221; special. Other than that, Raw averaged more than 3 million viewers on July 22 for each hour.<\/p>\n<p>We also received access to the ratings for each 30 minute block from a TV industry ratings source.<\/p>\n<p>8:00-8:30 p.m. &#8211; 4.058 million<\/p>\n<p>8:30-9:00 p.m. &#8211; 3.782 million<\/p>\n<p>9:00-9:30 &#8211; 3.862 million<\/p>\n<p>9:30-10:00 p.m. &#8211; 3.773 million<\/p>\n<p>In the time period on Fox, it was up 250 percent versus the week-ago adult 18-49 viewership and up 40 percent versus year-ago in adult 18-49 viewership.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3611050047\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2675470075\"><div id=\"pwtor-2157639787\"><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 debut episode of WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox drew 3.896 million viewers, according to overnight broadcast ratings. The show was no. 1, by a wide margin, in pretty much every demographic. Fox, in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/10\/05\/debut-of-friday-night-smackdown-on-fox-scores-some-blockbuster-first-week-numbers-key-metrics-fox-bragging-points\/\" title=\"Debut of Friday Night Smackdown on Fox scores some blockbuster first-week numbers, key metrics, Fox bragging points\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87095,"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-87181","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\/10\/Kofi-Lesnar_SD_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87181","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=87181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87182,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87181\/revisions\/87182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}