WWE Friday Night Smackdown stayed steady on Friday night drawing 2.28 million viewers over the course of the two-hour telecast on Fox in fast overnights. It eventually ended up at 2.383M viewers.
The event drew 0.6 in the A18-49 demo and a 5 share in the M18-49 category. Smackdown drew the highest viewership in the M18-49 in network.
Smackdown drew 812,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo.
Payout Perspective:
It was a big night of network viewing as CBS scored the highest ratings on Friday, January 22nd with MacGyver scoring 5.86M viewers and Magnum P.I. drawing a best across networks 6.73M viewers. Smackdown did draw higher in its average which is a good sign as Royal Rumble is on January 31st.
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