Throughout the past two months, “WWE SmackDown” has consistently averaged 1.4 million viewers every week, with its audience peaking at 1.58 million viewers two weeks ago for the episode ahead of WrestleMania. Nonetheless, “SmackDown’s” numbers quickly diminished the next week, with total viewership dropping by 20%, and things have only gotten worse for the blue brand heading into May, as last Friday’s episode recorded its lowest rankings since late January.<\/p>\n
In accordance with Wrestlenomics<\/a> and Programming Insider,<\/a> “SmackDown” averaged 1,153,000 viewers and posted a 0.25 in the important thing 18-49 demographic. When comparing each categories to the previous week, total viewership fell by 9%, while there was a steeper 22% decline within the 18-49 demo. Despite the poor rating last Friday, “SmackDown” still ranked third for the night on cable within the 18-49, with NHL playoff games dominating the highest two spots on\u00a0ESPN and ESPN2. As well as, “SmackDown” also went head-to-head with stiff playoff competition from the NBA on Friday night, with two game six matchups happening between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers, in addition to the Detroit Pistons and the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n Together with posting a few of its lowest figures of the yr, “SmackDown’s” numbers have continued to diminish during the last 12 months, with this system’s viewership being down by 17% since last May. That said, what’s more concerning is the show’s performance within the 18-49 demo, with the category falling by 31% since this time last yr. Although “SmackDown” has struggled to keep up its audience since WrestleMania, the show will return to being a two-hour program this coming June, which could increase rankings with the ten PM to 11 PM timeslot often being the hour with the biggest viewership decline.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WWE Throughout the past two months, “WWE SmackDown” has consistently averaged 1.4 million viewers every week, with its audience peaking at 1.58 million viewers two weeks ago for the episode ahead of WrestleMania. Nonetheless, “SmackDown’s” numbers quickly diminished the next week, with total viewership dropping by 20%, and things have only gotten worse for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6264,2185,9262,19358,6221],"class_list":["post-330300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ratings","tag-report","tag-smackdown","tag-viewership","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330303,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330300\/revisions\/330303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}