WWE Smackdown Viewership Rises, Rating Holds Steady

The overnight numbers for Friday evenings edition of WWE SmackDown on FOX are in.

According to a report from PWInsider, Smackdown averaged 2.182 million viewers. Check out the hour by hour breakdown:

Hour 1: 2.204 million

Hour 2: 2.160 million

The viewership figure is up from last Friday's 2.168 million viewers.

Smackdown also pulled in a 0.5 rating in the key demo, and tied Shark Tanl for No. 1 in the primetime network programming lineup on Friday.