Showbuzz Daily reports that this past Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX was able to draw a total of 1.927 million viewers, with a 0.44 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This is down 7.93% from last week’s total final viewership of 2.093 million viewers for the post-SummerSlam episode.
This past Friday's rating of 0.44 is down 10.20% from last week’s rating of 0.49. Last Friday night's rating of 0.44 represents 574,000 viewers in the key 18-49 demographic, which is down 10.17% from the previous week's 639,000 viewers with a 0.49 rating, Wrestlenomics reports. This past Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown was pre-empted in a number of markets due to the NFL pre-season games and because of that this was the lowest total audience since the post-Hell In a Cell episode on June 10th.
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WWE Smackdown, Friday on Fox (8-10pm):
1,927,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.44
AEW Rampage, Friday on TNT:
528,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.17
📊 https://t.co/1SscdBCpr8 pic.twitter.com/2YKCRvWj8c— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) August 15, 2022
Smackdown was #1 in P18-49 for Friday, despite its lowest viewership since June as SD was preempted in many markets.
Rampage was #10 among cable originals, #24 incl broadcast primetime.
Reposting line chart. Rampage was not preempted as indicated.
📋 https://t.co/5nsJtFNBeo pic.twitter.com/PWmEh41XtA— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) August 15, 2022
Smackdown was preempted in about 12% of TV homes on Friday, including Atlanta, Orlando, and St. Louis markets.
Smackdown was down 10% compared to the prior month.
In preempted markets, Smackdown aired on another broadcast network or aired later in the night.— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) August 15, 2022
