The Overnight Preliminary Ratings For WWE SmackDown Drop This Week

SpoilerTV has released the preliminary overnight numbers for this week’s edition of WWE SmackDown on FOX.

Friday night’s episode averaged 2.088 million viewers, based on 2.125 million viewers for the first hour and 2.051 million viewers for the second hour.

The viewership was down compared to the overnight number from last week.

The previous show averaged 2.135 million viewers for the preliminaries with the final audience standing at 2.265 million viewers.

This week’s figures record the lowest preliminary audience for SmackDown of 2023, and also the lowest preliminary overnight audience since December 2022 (2.056 million viewers).

The ratings were also down in the P18-49 key demo. WWE SmackDown averaged a 0.49 rating, down from the 0.53 overnight rating for last week. The final key demo rating for the April 14th episode was a 0.58.

SmackDown faced tough competition last night with the NBA Playoffs coverage on ABC. The NBA Playoffs dominated the key demo ratings coming in at #1 for Friday primetime broadcast programming. SmackDown ranked second. Blue Bloods on CBS topped Friday viewership with 5.702 million viewers.

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