TV ratings: Reprocessed WWE Smackdown for March 31, slightly lower viewership than originally reported

Viewership for the pre-Wrestlemania WWE Smackdown on Fox last Friday was reprocessed by Nielsen to account for preemptions due to storm coverage that aired on Fox in markets including Chicago, resulting in a slightly lower viewership measurement.

After reprocessing, Smackdown averaged 2,373,000 viewers, including about 866,000 viewers aged 18 to 49, for a 0.66 P18-49 rating.

This episode of Smackdown was originally reported as averaging 2,484,000 viewers (5% higher) and a 0.69 P18-49 rating (4% higher).

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The corrected 0.66 P18-49 rating is still good for #3 overall on Friday, the same as the previous 0.69 rating had ranked, only behind the NCAA women’s college basketball game and its pre-game show on ESPN.

The corrected total viewership for Smackdown is the highest since March 3 and the highest P18-49 viewership since January 27. Therefore, this was not the highest P18-49 for Smackdown since December 25, 2020 (a show with an NFL game lead-in), as the original measurement indicated.

Reprocessed viewer counts in thousands for the March 31 episode with difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:

Smackdown:

P2+: 2373 (+4%)

P18-49: 866 (+12%)

M18-49: 526 (+11%)

F18-49: 341 (+13%)

P18-34: 296 (+7%)

M18-34: 177 (+9%)

F18-34: 119 (+9%)

P35-49: 570 (+13%)

M35-49: 349 (+15%)

F35-49: 222 (+11%)