WWE SmackDown on Friday night stayed steady drawing an average of 2.42 million viewers and a 0.7 in the A18-49 demo and an overall share of 4.
Notably, Hawaii Five-O drew a 0.9 in the A18-49 demo and Ellen’s Game of Games had a 0.7 rating in the A18-49 demo. Normally, SmackDown’s 0.7 share is the highest rating in the demo.
Broken down, SmackDown drew 2.467 viewers in the first hour and 2.369 viewers in hour two. It remained solid in the demo shares with the exception of dropping from a 6 share in the first hour among males 18-49 to a 5 share in hour 2.
Payout Perspective:
Hawaii Five-O drew the highest-rating on Friday night with almost 8 million viewers in the 8pm hour while Magnum P.I. drew 7.81 viewers in the 9pm hour. The ratings for WWE Smackdown rivaled ABC’s sit-com programming in the first hour but once again the second hour seems to lose out on viewers as Dateline’s rerun on NBC drew 3.27 making Fox third in terms of overall network ratings.
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