-- Friday's episode of WWE Smackdown averaged 1.578 million viewers, a healthy increase form last week and tied for the highest audience in almost four months. In the 18-49 demo, Smackdown averaged a 0.51 rating, the first time it has cracked 0.50 since the first episode on the USA Network back in September. That figure helped Smackdown easily top the cable charts. A college basketball game on FOX was the only sports competition on the night and it trailed Smackdown by drawing 1.453 million viewers and a 0.31 rating.
-- AEW Collision meanwhile predictably struggled on Saturday evening averaging only 197,000 viewers and a 0.04 rating in the 18-49 demo. The audience and rating are both the lowest in history for an episode that aired on TNT in its normal Saturday evening time slot. Two factors could help explain the poor figures - the first being that Collision aired against WWE's Royal Rumble and the second, that the show was simultaneously streamed on Max, and those numbers are not included.
