WWE Smackdown, Friday on Fox, was watched by 2,219,000 viewers on average, including about 757,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.58 P18-49 rating.
Against “Elite 8” college basketball games, this was Smackdown’s lowest total viewership since December 16 and lowest P18-49 viewership since February 17.
Compared to last week, Smackdown was down 2% in total viewership. Among viewers 18 to 49, viewership was down 2% from last week’s 770,000.
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Smackdown ranked #7 on television overall on the day in P18-49, according to Showbuzz Daily.
Rampage was preempted to Saturday, so that rating should be available tomorrow.
Viewer counts in thousands, calculated from national ratings, for this week’s episode with difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:
P2+: 2219 (-6%)
P18-49: 757 (-5%)
P18-34: 281 (+1%)
P35-49: 476 (-9%)
P25-54: 937 (-2%)
non-P18-49:1462 (-5%)
Most-viewed YouTube videos from Smackdown, as of 4pm today:
Rey Mysterio snaps and punches his son Dominik!: 2,584,023
Cody Rhodes repeats that Solo Sikoa is not ready: 914,319
Mysterio Family Drama – Full SmackDown highlights: 836,667
The Usos hijack “The KO Show” with Sami Zayn: 784,238
Gunther exudes confidence in Contract Signing with McIntyre and Sheamus: 411,112
Butch vs. Gunther: 379,499
Dominik Mysterio promises to confront the Mysterio family on SmackDown: 373,160
The Bloodline, Cody Rhodes, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn — Full SmackDown highlights: 371,663
Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler emerge to size up their competition: 303,694
Rey Mysterio faces LA Knight in front of his family: 270,279
This report was written with the assistance of automated programs created by me, then manually edited.
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Brandon Thurston
brandon@wrestlenomics.com
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