Showbuzz Daily reports that last Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX was able to draw a total of 2.231 million viewers, with a rating of 0.52 in the key 18-49 demo. This total is down 1.89% from the previous week’s final viewership of 2.274 million viewers for the post-WWE Extreme Rules episode.
This past Friday’s rating of 0.52 is down 3.70% from last week’s 0.54 rating. This past Friday’s 0.52 rating represents 678,000 viewers in the key 18-49 demo, which is down 3.69% from last week’s 704,000 viewers with a 0.54 rating, Wrestlenomics reports. Last Friday night’s WWE SmackDown episode drew the eleventh-highest total audience of the year so far, tied with two other episodes of WWE SmackDown and the twelfth-highest key demo rating of the year so far, tied with one other episode of the show.
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WWE Smackdown, Friday on Fox (8-10pm):
2,231,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.52
#3 in P18-49 among broadcast primetime and cable originalsAEW Rampage, Friday on TNT (10-11pm):
480,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.13
#24 cable original in P18-49
📊 https://t.co/1SscdBCpr8 pic.twitter.com/8MAjLp14p8— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 24, 2022
MLB NLCS game on FS1 (1.12 P18-49 rating) and the late NBA game on ESPN (0.66) outranked Smackdown.
Smackdown outperformed the early NBA game it went head-to-head with (0.47).
📋 Full report: https://t.co/2FUfEYDWPf pic.twitter.com/J1Nlf1FZpd— Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) October 24, 2022