Smackdown Ratings For 2/19 See Another Increase
June 20, 2020 1 By Tim JarrellThis week’s Smackdown saw another increase in the ratings that kept them above the 2 million mark.
According to ShowBuzz Daily, this week’s Friday Night Smackdown averaged 2,089,000 viewers. This is up roughly 4% from last week’s show that averaged 2,016,000 viewers. This is also a 793,000 viewer increase from last week. Overall the night was won by Magnum P.I. on CBS at over 3.9 million viewers.
As far as the demographics, in the 18-49 demo, Smackdown did a .5. In the 18-34 demo, it did a. 3 and in the 50+ demo, Smackdown averaged a 2.5 for the two-hour show. In the all-important 18-49 demo was tired was technically tied for the top stop with Shark Tank and 20/20. One hour of 20/20 was ranked higher at a .6 but it’s average between the two hours of the show was a .5.
Friday Night Smackdown Hourly Breakdown
- Hour 1: 2,147,000 (18-49: .5 18-34: .3 50+: 3)
- Hour 2: 2,031,000 (18-49: .5 18-34: .3 50+: 2)
Top 5 Friday Night Smackdown YouTube Highlights
- Matt Riddle crashes AJ Styles’ Intercontinental Championship party (over 507,000 views)
- Bray Wyatt awakens the dead for Braun Strowman (over 469,000 views)
- Matt Riddle vs AJ Styles (over 407,000 views)
- Mandy Rose slaps The Miz after Sonya Deville ambush (over 385,000 views)
- Nikki Cross vs Sasha Banks (over 271,000 views)
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