WWE Smackdown saw another benchmark in its time on Fox with the second hour of the telecast drawing just 1.978M viewers according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It was the lowest viewership for the program since airing on Fox this past October. WWE Smackdown drew 2.050 million viewers in the first hour and then dropped […]
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ESPN’s Saturday of Boxing rating tops out with Ali-Frazier 3
ESPN ran a marathon of classic boxing matchups on Saturday afternoon including the Ali-Frazier trilogy. Viewership for the marathon fared well with there being no live sports to watch. The third fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier drew the most viewers on Saturday on ESPN with 699,000 viewers and 177,000 in the A18-49 demo. […]
Friday Night Smackdown draws lowest ratings airing on Fox
WWE Friday Night SmackDown drew the lowest ratings of its time on Fox with the second hour producing just slightly over 2.1 million viewers according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The telecasts are being done without a live audience which seems to be hurting home viewership. Friday night the two-hour telecast drew 2.239M viewers in […]
AEW 685K, NXT 590K
AEW Dynamite on TNT fell off precipitously this week registering only 685,000 viewers and falling down the cable ratings all the way down to 37. Meanwhile, NXT on USA fell to 74th on Wednesday night with just 590,000 viewers. Both telecasts have been hit hard without live audiences as ratings have dropped due to the […]
Ratings down this week for Smackdown on Fox
WWE Smackdown drew an average of 2.374 million viewers on Fox Friday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The viewership numbers are down from last week. Once again, WWE is airing episodes without an audience. Its biggest event of the year, Wrestlemania, will be held without an audience, tape-delayed and airing on two separate […]