Friday Night Smackdown (Jan 22nd) 2.38M viewers

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 22^nd 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 31^st.