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This week in pro wrestling ratings

September 20, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

This week in pro wrestling ratings, WWE Friday Night Smackdown experienced a slight decline in ratings while AEW won another round in head-to-head battle with NXT. WWE Friday Smackdown drew 1.922 million viewers in hour 1 and 1.966 million viewers in hour 2.  It fell slightly in the A18-49 demo from 0.6 to 0.5 in […]

Filed Under: AEW, FOX, Friday Night SmackDown, NXT, TNT, USA, WWE

Ratings swing up for both AEW and WWE programming

September 13, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

This past week, all three pro wrestling programs produced great numbers.  Notably, AEW surpassed 1 million viewers on Wednesday night for the first time since its first month and SmackDown recorded its best numbers in months. AEW on TNT Wednesday night drew 1.016M viewers on Wednesday night. It drew 0.37 in the A18-49 and 0.51 […]

Filed Under: AEW, Friday Night SmackDown, WWE

WWE Friday Night Smackdown shows increase in viewers

August 29, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox increased in viewership over last week drawing an average of 2.18 million viewers. The first hour drew 2.210 while hour two dropped off to 2.151 million viewers.  The demos remained steady with 0.6 in the A18-49 demo, the largest of all networks on Friday and the M18-49 demo was […]

Filed Under: FOX, Friday Night SmackDown, WWE

WWE Friday Night Smackdown shows gains in viewership going into Summerslam

August 22, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

WWE Friday Night Smackdown showed an increase in viewership as the company prepared for its second largest PPV of the year Summerslam this Sunday.  The go-home telecast saw both hours over 2 million viewers Friday night. The telecast which revealed its “ThunderDome” look of viewers on television screens similar to the NBA and NHL broadcasts […]

Filed Under: FOX, Friday Night SmackDown, pro wrestling

Smackdown improves with over 2M viewers in hour 2

August 17, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

WWE Friday Night Smackdown drew 1.932 million viewers in the first hour and 2.025 million viewers in hour 2. The viewership was up over the previous week and improved from hour to hour.  Smackdown did draw the highest viewership in the A18-49 demo in the 8-9pm time slot and tied for the highest in the […]

Filed Under: Friday Night SmackDown, WWE

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