UPDATE: The Thursday, January 29th live edition of WWE SmackDown from Hartford, Connecticut scored a final 2.06 (2.1) cable rating, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 2.06 (2.1) final draw marks a slight increase compared to last week’s show, which delivered a 1.97 final cable rating.
Thursday’s live SmackDown show averaged 2.952 million viewers for the SyFy Network, which was also up from the previous week’s show, which averaged 2.814 million viewers.
The rating and viewership for this week’s show is the biggest audience to watch WWE SmackDown on their new Thursday night weekly time slot. Additionally, SmackDown was once again the highest rated original programming on cable television for Thursday night.
The last time SmackDown drew a bigger number than this week was for the January 31, 2014 edition of the show, which delivered a 2.18 rating and averaged 3.027 million viewers.
ORIGINAL: The show is doing well on Thursdays…- WWE SmackDown’s viewership and ratings continued to inch up in its Thursday night timeslot. The show drew 2.95 million viewers and a 0.85 rating in the 18-49 demo. Those numbers are up 5% and .01 from last week’s 2.82 million and 0.84 demo rating.
The viewership is the highest number for SmackDown since the November 28th episode did 3.05 million and the demo rating is the highest since a 0.88 on November 21st.
The household rating was a 2.06, up 5% from last week’s 1.97.
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