Last night’s SmackDown averaged 2.898 million viewers in the overnight ratings, down 25 percent from last Friday’s FOX premiere.
The episode was night one of this year’s WWE Draft.
In the key 18-49 demo, SmackDown averaged a 0.95 rating, down from 1.35 last week.
The only demo where SmackDown didn’t fall was in persons 50+. The show averaged a 3 rating in that demo both weeks.
In comparison to the other networks, FOX trailed both CBS and NBC but beat ABC in terms of total viewers. SmackDown did finish first in the 18-34 and 18-49 demos.
The first hour of SmackDown averaged 2.925 million viewers, with hour two doing 2.872 million viewers. The drop from the first to second hour was only two percent, a much better audience retention than Raw usually has over the course of its show.
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Last week’s SmackDown dropped three percent from in the second hour, but with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appearing in the opening segment, it would’ve been expected to drop more.
Final numbers will not be available until Tuesday afternoon but should end up relatively close to this. Last week, the final viewership was up 14,000 from the overnights, a change of just 0.3 percent.