WWE SmackDown Ratings & Viewership Decline This Week

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

The latest show averaged 2.135 million viewers, based on 2.087 million viewers for the first hour and 2.183 million viewers for the second hour.

This week’s preliminary audience was down from the post-WrestleMania 39 episode last week, which garnered an overnight audience of 2.291 million viewers. The final audience for last week’s episode was 2.468 million viewers.

In the key P18-49 key demo rating, SmackDown averaged a 0.53 rating in the preliminary from 0.49 for the first hour and a 0.56 rating for the second hour. The figures are down from the overnight rating for last week’s episode, which was a 0.61. The final average key demo rating was a 0.69.

WWE SmackDown managed to top the primetime broadcast network programming ratings for Friday night. Blue Bloods on CBS topped the viewership for Friday with 3.284 million viewers.

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