2 weeks Ago
Friday night’s WWE SmackDown — the first episode back on USA Network since 2019 — averaged 1.723 million viewers . That’s down 2.
7 percent from the show’s last episode on Fox the previous week. The last time SmackDown aired on USA Network in September 2019, it averaged 2.099 million viewers on a week where Raw averaged 2.
21 million. Last Monday’s Raw did 1.43 million viewers.
SmackDown drew a 0.55 rating in the 18-49 demo. The rating is up 22.
2 percent from the final SmackDown on Fox. USA Network will be SmackDown’s television home until at least 2029 with WWE and NBCUniversal reaching a five-year agreement for the show. As part of the deal, there will also be four prime time in-ring specials per year airing on NBC.
Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for SmackDown, as well as the 10-week average in both categories. These are for Fox airings of the show (with the advantage of airing on broadcast television instead of cable). This week’s episode on USA was down 20.
1 percent in overall viewers and down 6.8 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages. Source.
