WWE SmackDown ratings virtually unchanged from last week

[Big Red Machine]

Source: www.F4WOnline.com

By Paul Fontaine | @PaulAceFontaine | Jun 7, 2017 1:52 pm

Ratings for this Tuesday's SmackDown were essentially even with last week, at 2.349 million viewers. That's down only 1,000 viewers from the May 30th show.

The episode was sixth for the night on cable in terms of total viewers and first in the 18-49 demo with a 0.74 rating.

There was no big sports competition last night with the NBA and NHL finals both not in action. The biggest competition was "America's Got Talent" on NBC, which did 12.5 million viewers head-to-head with SmackDown.

A non-title match between United States Champion Kevin Owens and Shinsuke Nakamura was the most heavily promoted thing going into the show.

For a year-over-year comparison, which will get very interesting next month when we can compare the live Tuesday night numbers, SmackDown this week in 2016 did 2.169 million viewers and a 0.69 rating in the 18-49 demo, so those numbers were up eight and seven percent respectively this year.

At this time in 2016, the show was taped on Tuesdays and then aired on the USA Network on Thursdays.

[cero2k]

apparently RAW went up 14%, those Samoan Submission Ratings, who knew people wanted to see two big mutherfuckers beat each other up. either that or they thought Lesnar was gonna be there