Partial Source: Pwinsider
— WWE has registered a trademark for “Second City Saint,” likely to use in association with CM Punk.
— As noted earlier, Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown drew in an average of 2.75 million viewers. That number is up 4% from the 2.65 million viewers that the show did last week. It was second among original programming on cable for the night behind Gold Rush: South America.
The show did a 18-49 demo rating of 0.8, which was even with last week. The full rating will be available later today.
UPDATE: The 8/2 WWE SmackDown on Syfy did a 1.99 (2.0) cable rating, with 2.75 million viewers. This is up from last week’s show that did a 1.92 (1.9) cable rating with 2.65 million viewers.
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