Showbuzz Daily reports that this past Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX was able to draw a total of 2.142 million viewers, with a 0.48 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This total is down 3.94% from last week’s total final viewership of 2.230 million viewers.
Last Friday night's rating of 0.48 is down 20% from last week’s 0.60 rating. Last Friday night's 0.48 rating represents around 623,000 viewers in the key 18-49 demographic, which is down 20.93% from last week's 788,000 total viewers with a rating of 0.60, reports Wrestlenomics. This past Friday's episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown drew the lowest key demo rating for an episode on FOX since the July 2, 2021 show and the lowest total audience since the February 25 episode, which was the post-Elimination Chamber episode.
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WWE Smackdown, Friday on Fox, 8-10p:
2,142,000 viewers
P18-49: 0.48 (623k)
Lowest P18-49 on Fox since July.
AEW Rampage, early start on TNT at 7p:
482,000
P18-49: 0.22 (288k)
Down 12% in P18-49 from last week w/ normal start.
📊 More demos & analysis: https://t.co/1SscdBCpr8 pic.twitter.com/WKuIaAkXSx— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) April 18, 2022
That -12% week-to-week difference for Rampage is compared to last week with the show's highest demo in the 10pm time slot since October 1.
Smackdown's total viewership was the lowest since February 25, but only off 3% compared to the median of the prior four weeks.— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) April 18, 2022
YouTube views for top 10 highlights of Smackdown and Rampage at this point. pic.twitter.com/ae4nPMdMCt
— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) April 18, 2022
Rampage peaked Friday in total viewership and P18-49 for the final quarter-hour, which was the latter part of Adam Cole vs. Adam Page.https://t.co/7wROAsHAGr
— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) April 19, 2022
Smackdown opened with 2.3 million viewers for RK-Bro & Usos live promo and stayed under 2.2 million thereafter. Peak in the demo, though, was later, at the 9pm quarter (included the short Zayn vs. McIntyre match) which is the usual trend.https://t.co/QTsIN0XjZ8
— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) April 19, 2022
