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Friday Night Smackdown draws 1.9M viewer average on Fox for July 10th edition

July 12, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Friday Night Smackdown on Fox was up slightly after a record low for the Fourth of July Weekend.  This past Friday it drew 1.93M viewers in the first hour and tailed off to 1.879M in the second hour according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. 

Smackdown led networks in the adult 18-49 demo as it was up 0.1 to 0.5.  It also showed strong as it always does in the men 18-49.

CBS returned to being the big ratings winner on Friday night with reruns of MacGyver and Magnum P.I. winning the night in terms of overall ratings. 

Last week WWE Friday Night Smackdown mustered a 1.777M viewer average (1.797 and 1.756 for 1st and 2nd hour respectively) with 516,000 viewers in the A18-49 tuning in.

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