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WWE Smackdown on Fox
Fri, Mar. 22, 2024: 8:00 to 10:00 pm

TV RATINGS

2,235,000 viewers (P2+)
P18-49 rating: 0.61

LOWEST P2+ SINCE DEC. 29, 2023

LOWEST P18-49 SINCE DEC. 29, 2023

Reported earlier by Programming Insider.

Competition note: Smackdown was opposed by multiple first round March Madness college basketball games. Data on those games is here from SportsTVRatings.

P2+ comparisons:

This episode vs. last week (2,340,000): -4%
This episode vs. trailing four weeks (2,350,000): -5%
Current 2024-Q1 P2+ average (2,414,000) vs. 2023-Q1 (2,358,000): +4%
Current Mar 2024 P2+ average (2,340,000) vs. Mar 2023 (2,324,000): +1%

P18-49 comparisons:

This episode vs. last week (0.68): -10%
This episode vs. trailing four weeks (0.66): -7%
Current 2024-Q1 P18-49 average (0.68) vs. 2023-Q1 (0.60): +11%
Current Mar 2024 P18-49 average (0.66) vs. Mar 2023 (0.61): +7%

Viewer counts for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 4 non-preemption episodes in parentheses:

P2+: 2235k (-5%)
P18-49: 804k (-8%)
Non-P18-49: 1431k (-3%)

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LIVE EVENTS

Data from WrestleTix

WWE Smackdown
Friday, March 22, 2024
Milwaukee, WI at Fiserv Forum
Estimated tickets distributed:11,253

Market-to-market comparisons (Milwaukee, WI):

2021-07-31 (Sat) – WWE Supershow: 6,433 (+75% vs. 11,253)
2021-08-25 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 5,531 (+103%)
2021-12-20 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 5,167 (+118%)
2022-04-08 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 8,115 (+39%) ← SAME EVENT TYPE
2022-06-22 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 4,336 (+160%)
2022-12-12 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 6,902 (+63%)
2023-03-18 (Sat) – WWE Road to WrestleMania: 6,457 (+74%)
2023-04-12 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 3,273 (+244%)
2023-10-27 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 11,476 (-2%) ← SAME EVENT TYPE

Year-over-year comparison for this event type:
Current 2024-Q1 WWE Smackdown average: (11,557) vs. 2023-Q1 (9,934): +16%

DIGITAL

As of 4:04 pm, Mar 25

Most-viewed YouTube videos on WWE’s official channel:

1.) SmackDown, March 22, 2024 – FULL SEGMENT – Reigns and Rhodes come face to face before WrestleMania: 1,666,453
2.) SmackDown, March 22, 2024 – Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes bring backup in a major SmackDown standoff: 1,541,476
3.) 435,094 – LA Knight incites a brawl at AJ Styles’ home and gets arrested
4.) 348,055 – “Dirty” Dom Mysterio helps Santos Escobar defeat Rey Mysterio
5.) 239,722 – Damage CTRL takes out Naomi and Bianca Belair
6.) SmackDown, March 22, 2024 – The Street Profits move one step closer to WrestleMania title opportunity: 220,609
7.) SmackDown, March 22, 2024 – Theory & Waller steal a qualifying win with WrestleMania implications: 205,336
8.) 195,343 – IYO SKY attacks Bayley and steals win from Naomi

RECEPTION

As of 4:28 pm, Mar 25

Event rating:

Cagematch.net voter rating: 6.42 (70 votes)
This episode vs. last week (6.08): +6%
This episode vs. trailing four weeks (6.28): +2%
Current 2024-Q1 average (6.31) vs. 2023-Q1 (6.44): -2%

Match ratings:

6.67 (77 votes) – Rey Mysterio vs. Santos Escobar
6.21 (71 votes) – Naomi vs. IYO SKY
5.71 (57 votes) – The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) vs. The Authors Of Pain (Akam & Rezar)
5.27 (62 votes) – Austin Theory & Grayson Waller vs. The OC (Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows)