Showbuzz Daily reports that last Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX was able to draw a total of 2.257 million viewers, with a 0.53 rating in the key 18-49 demo. This is down 14.14% from last week’s final viewership of 2.629 million viewers.
Last Friday’s 0.53 rating is down 17.18% from last week’s 0.64 rating. This past Friday’s 0.53 rating represents 691,000 total viewers in the key 18-49 demo, which is down 17.24% from last week’s 835,000 viewers with a 0.64 rating, Wrestlenomics reports. Last Friday’s WWE SmackDown episode drew just over the 2022 FOX viewership average, which was 2.173 million viewers per episode as well as even with the 2022 FOX rating average, which was a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 key demographic per episode over 50 FOX episodes.
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WWE Smackdown, Friday on Fox (8-10pm):
2,257,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.53AEW Rampage, Friday on TNT (10-11pm):
551,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.15
#30 cable original in P18-49
📊 https://t.co/qDSSxyAPtr pic.twitter.com/owHK24EPHp— Wrestlenomics (@wrestlenomics) January 9, 2023
Smackdown ranked #3 for the day in P18-49 on Friday, behind Fire Country on CBS and Shark Tank on ABC.
NBA on ESPN was #1 on cable.
📋 Full report: https://t.co/7C9xKURW8z pic.twitter.com/23KIa5iSJ7— Wrestlenomics (@wrestlenomics) January 9, 2023