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WWE Smackdown, preempted Friday on FS1, was watched by 789,000 viewers on average, including about 320,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.24 P18-49 rating.
This week’s Smackdown was down 64% compared to last week’s total viewership of 2,206,000. Among viewers 18 to 49, viewership was down 61% from last week’s 0.62 rating.
Below is the total viewership for each episode of Smackdown that’s been preempted to FS1:
- 10/25/2019: 888,000
- 10/23/2020: 885,000
- 12/18/2020: 1,033,000
- 10/15/2021: 866,000
- 10/29/2021: 1,032,000
- 12/31/2021: 378,000
- 10/28/2022: 835,000
- 12/2/2022: 902,000
- 7/21/2023: 1,230,000
- 10/27/2023: 1,145,000
- 11/24/2023: 789,000
Viewer counts in thousands for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:
P2+: 789 (-63%)
P18-49: 320 (-56%)
M18-49: 230 (-53%)
F18-49: 90 (-62%)
P18-34: 145 (-46%)
M18-34: 107 (-33%)
F18-34: 38 (-60%)
P35-49: 174 (-62%)
M35-49: 122 (-61%)
F35-49: 52 (-64%)
Non-P18-49: 469 (-67%)
Most-viewed YouTube videos from Smackdown, as of 7pm today:
1. Kevin Owens and LA Knight take over “The Grayson Waller Effect”: 335,771
2. Santos Escobar injures Carlito’s arm in brawl: 263,818
3. Dragon Lee to take on Santos Escobar at Survivor Series: 256,235
4. Bayley plays Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair against each other: 233,802
5. Lynch’s argument with Flair leads to Damage CTRL attack: 218,587
6. Kevin Owens & LA Knight vs. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller: 210,043
7. FULL MATCH – Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair vs. Bayley & Asuka: 197,856
8. The Judgment Day score a title victory over The Street Profits: 175,161
9. Ridge Holland abandons Butch against Pretty Deadly: 131,288
10. Dragon Lee introduces himself to the WWE Universe: 93,326
This ratings report was written with the assistance of automated programs created by me, then manually edited.
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Brandon Thurston
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Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.