This past Friday’s SmackDown averaged 2.13 million viewers on Fox, down 0.5 percent from the previous week. It was the lowest number for a SmackDown episode airing on Fox since October 21.
The biggest reason for the drop seems to be the fact that the networks were airing almost all original programming opposite SmackDown, leading to numbers higher than what SmackDown has been competing against over the last several months.
Fox had the lowest viewership total among the major networks with only a repeat of NBC’s The Voice coming close. The Voice averaged 2.4 million viewers. All other shows were over three million viewers, with Magnum PI and Blue Bloods on CBS both doing over five million.
In the 18-49 demo, SmackDown averaged a 0.6 rating, which tied ABC’s Shark Tank for the top spot on the networks. That’s the same rating SmackDown did last week in that category.
In 18-34, SmackDown averaged a 0.4 rating, which led the networks. SmackDown was up 33.3 percent in that demo from last week.
Year-over-year, SmackDown was down 13.1 percent in overall viewership. In the 18-49 demo, SmackDown was down 14.3 percent from last year. The show had the exact same 18-34 rating it did this week in 2019.