Friday Night Smackdown Ratings For 1/10 Highest In Two Months

Smackdown this week had the highest rating since November.

According to Showbuzz Daily, this week’s Friday Night Smackdown averaged 2,502,000 viewers. This is up 4% from last week’s 2,418,000 viewers. The last time Smackdown cracked over 2.5 million viewers was the November 22nd episode of the show. Also in the 18-49 demographic Smackdown was number one for the night. In the overall ratings once again CBS won with Blue Blood, Hawaii Five-O, and Magnum P.I. all doing over seven million viewers.

As far as the demographics go, in the 18-49 demo, they pulled in a .5. In the 18-43 demo, they averaged a .75 and in the 50+ they averaged a 2.5. Again as stated above they won the 18-49 demo and tied for the top spot in the 18-34 demo.

Friday Night Smackdown Hourly Breakdown

• Hour 1: 2,679,000 viewers
  18-49: 0.5  18-34: .8  50+: 3
• Hour 2: 2,326,000 viewers
  18-49: 0.5  18-34: .7  50+: 2

Top 5 Friday Night Smackdown YouTube Highlights

• Roman Reigns lays down the challenge with family by his side (over 521,000 views)
• John Morrison reunited with Miz on “MizTV” (over 491,000 views)
• The Usos vs King Corbin & Dolph Ziggler (over 319,000 views)
• Braun Strowman vs Shinsuke Nakamura (over 238,000 views)
• King Corbin and his court put Roman Reigns through the announce table (over 232,000 views)

For more on this week’s Smackdown, check out or Friday Night Smackdown Review.