{"id":150102,"date":"2024-04-29T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=150102"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:09:22","slug":"wwe-smackdown-on-fox-rating-wwe-draft-night-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2024\/04\/29\/wwe-smackdown-on-fox-rating-wwe-draft-night-one\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Smackdown on Fox rating: WWE Draft Night One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2221149330\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>WWE Friday Night Smackdown finished with 2.143 million viewers for Fox, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmediawatch.com\/2024\/04\/friday-4-26-sports-viewership-nfl-draft-nba-playoff-tripleheader-stanley-cup\/\">SportsMediaWatch.com<\/a>. The number was down compared to the 2.333 million viewership count from the previous week&#8217;s episode.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Powell&#8217;s POV:<\/strong><\/span> Friday&#8217;s Smackdown finished with a 0.58 rating in the 18-49 demographic, down compared the previous week&#8217;s 0.63 rating. Smackdown ran opposite the NBA and NHL Playoffs, and night two of the NFL Draft. That said, WWE faced similar competition last year when the April 28, 2023 edition of Smackdown on Fox produced 2.473 million viewers and a 0.67 rating for night one of the draft.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-743802983\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[101,31],"class_list":["post-150102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsticker","category-wwe_news","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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