By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Tuesday’s WWE Smackdown Live averaged 1.983 million viewers for USA Network, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The number was up from the 1.827 million count from last Tuesday’s edition.
Powell’s POV: The number was up, but the fact that the show remained below two million viewers despite not facing NBA playoff competition is alarming. Smackdown finished second in the 18-49 demographic behind the NHL playoff game, which delivered 1.807 million overall viewers for NBC Sports Network. The May 22, 2018 edition of Smackdown delivered 2.195 million viewers.
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“The number was up, but the fact that the show remained below two million viewers despite not facing NBA playoff competition is alarming.”
Sorry I have to correct you Jason, but there was a Raptors/Bucks game 4 on last night. Technically, the game didn’t start til 7:30pm CST, so Smackdown was unopposed for 30 minutes. I can understand if you missed it since neither team stands a chance against the Warriors in the Finals.
Sorry, I’m not an NBA guy. Where did the game air? It didn’t show up in the cable or network ratings. Showbuzz even wrote: The absence of an NBA game placed NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS game at the top of Tuesday cable at 0.62.
It was on TNT. This is very weird. I don’t know how Showbuzz could’ve missed that.
Last time I checked, Bucks and Raptors are part of the NBA. That is a huge miss by the editor of this site in my book.
I find the NBA boring, so I couldn’t care less if he missed it. I wouldn’t classify a wrestling site, who’s editor admitted to not being an NBA guy, a “huge miss” either. Just saying.
Well, he does “hits” and “misses” all the time during his reviews so I was attempting to make a joke, but I forget that people don’t like jokes anymore and everyone is serious.
Didn’t make the connection. My bad. Lol.
I thought you were just a super big NBA guy.