According to Wrestlenomics, last Friday night's post-Payback episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX was able to draw 2.094 million viewers, with a rating of 0.53 in the key 18-49 demographic. This total is down 14.28% from last week’s final viewership of 2.443 million viewers for the Payback go-home episode.
Last Friday night's 0.53 rating is down 18.46% from last week’s 0.65 rating. Last Friday night's 0.53 rating represents 692,000 total viewers in the key 18-49 demo, which is down 18.39% from the previous week's 848,000 viewers, with a 0.65 rating, Wrestlenomics reports. Last Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX ranked #1 on broadcast TV for the seventh week in a row. Last Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX drew the lowest key demo viewership since the Night of Champions go-home show on May 26. Last Friday night's episode of WWE SmackDown also drew the second-lowest total audience of the year so far for an airing on FOX, which is tied with the 25th Anniversary special for WWE Hall of Famer Edge on August 18th and also the sixth-lowest key demo rating of the year so far, tied with two other episodes.
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WWE Smackdown, Friday on Fox:
2,094,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.53
AEW Rampage, Friday on TNT:
385,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.13 pic.twitter.com/QoYKqtzw2b— Wrestlenomics (@wrestlenomics) September 11, 2023
This was the lowest P18-49 viewership for Smackdown since May 26, but only the lowest total viewership since a month ago, on August 18.https://t.co/fMl42RCtXq
— Wrestlenomics (@wrestlenomics) September 11, 2023
Quarter-hours: WWE Smackdown, September 8https://t.co/kWc3FMJOcQ
— Wrestlenomics (@wrestlenomics) September 11, 2023
