Viewership for this week’s episode of Smackdown Live was down to 2.530 million viewers. This was slightly down compared to last week’s 2.584 million viewers. This is still higher than last year’s 8/16/16 edition of Smackdown which drew 2.471 million viewers.
Smackdown has been going down in viewership about 2% week-over-week. This is a much larger decrease than Raw showed this week, but the pattern over the last several weeks and months is that the viewership for the two shows seems related. This means that when there is a change in the viewership of Raw, there is a similar increase/decrease in viewership for Smackdown Live.
Smackdown Live finished as the fifth most watched show on cable television in the Tuesday night ratings. But SmackDown Live finished as the number one for the night in the all important 18-49 age group demographic. It finished the night with 0.77 rating in that demo, down from last week’s 0.80.
Below is Smackdown Live’s viewership numbers from the beginning of this year until last week’s episode:
Aug. 8 – 2.58 Million
Aug. 1 – 2.57 Million
July 25 – 2.54 Million
July 18 – 2.55 Million
July 11 – 2.47 Million
July 4 – 2.32 Million
June 27 – 2.60 Million
June 20 – 2.6 Million
June 13 – 2.072 Million
June 6 – 2.349 Million
May 30 – 2.35 Million
May 23 – 2.33 Million
May 16 – 2.175 Million
May 9 – 2.348 Million
May 2 – 2.3 Million
April 25 – 2.49 Million
April 18 – 2.54 Million
April 11 – 3.11 Million
April 4 – 2.89 Million
March 29 – 2.7 Million
March 21 – 2.65 Million
March 14 – 2.63 Million
March 7 – 2.74 Million
February 28 – 2.57 Million
Feb. 21 – 2.79 Million
Feb. 14 – 2.63 Million
Feb. 7 – 2.63 Million
Jan. 31 – 2.82 Million
Jan. 24 – 2.56 Million
Jan. 17 – 2.65 Million
Jan. 10 -2.53 Million
Jan. 3 – 2.59 Million