-- Friday's episode of WWE Smackdown delivered its best audience since September of 2024, averaging 1.736 million viewers. Of course that increase can almost surely be attributed to the advertised return to TV of The Rock, who appeared live in a promo segment with Cody Rhodes. It is the best viewership for the show since the very episode on the USA Network last fall.
-- In the 18-49 demo, Smackdown sat atop the cable charts with a 0.51 rating also the best figure since the September episode. The show went head-to-head with college basketball on FOX, which finished second on the night with 0.41 rating in 18-49 while an NBA game on ESPN also aired opposite SmackDown but was down in 5th spot with a 0.31 rating.
-- The 2/17 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw continued its slide ever since debuting on Netflix, just cracking the top 10 in the 10th spot among the most watched shows globally for that week. The show tallied 5,500,000 hours viewed as well as 2,800,000 total views. Raw finished in the top 10 in eight countries this week: Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador and the United States - an improvement from the 2/10 show.
