-- Friday's WWE Smackdown averaged 1.528 million viewers and a 0.45 rating in the 18-49 demo. Both figures are up from last week (1.436 million, 0.41 rating) and the second best since November 22. Particularly notable and perhaps making it more impressive is that Friday's episode of Smackdown was the first time the show ran three hours which historically pulls numbers down. Smackdown finished second on the nightly cable charts, trailing a college football game.
-- Saturday's AEW Collision averaged 345,000 viewers and a 0.09 rating in the 18-49 demo. The show went head-to-head against the NFL's Ravens vs. Steelers game which averaged over 22 million viewers across both ABC and ESPN. The show still finished #3 on the night among programs on cable TV. Week-over-week, Collision was down big due to last week's show having a big lead-in, but it more or less matched its two month rolling average. Also of note is that this was the first time Collision was also simulcast on the streaming platform Max and those figures are not included in any of the above metrics nor have they have been shared publicly.
