Smackdown Continues to See a Rise in Viewers

It looks like WWE’s Smackdown is starting to pick up the pace. Having been lesser viewed than Raw for some time, things are starting to look brighter for the Tuesday program. With AJ Styles and Randy Orton in the main event, it was sure to pick up. But by how much?

Smackdown this week pulled in 2.74 million viewers. Last week saw a total of 2.57 million viewers, which saw an increase of 170,000 viewers over the last week. This is already a strong increase, and a show of force from the brand. When compared to Monday Night Raw’s 3.22 million viewers this week, Smackdown was only outviewed by 17.5% this week.

This is a massive jump to the program, which has struggled to gain the same large-scale viewership of Raw recently. It looks like things are starting to stabilize and increase thanks to the increase of great talent and solid bookings for Smackdown.

Here are the recent ratings from Smackdown over the last couple of months:

• January 3rd Episode: 2.596 million viewers
• January 10th Episode: 2.533 million viewers
• January 17th Episode: 2.652 million viewers
• January 24th Episode: 2.556 million viewers
• January 31st Episode: 2.817 million viewers
• February 7th Episode: 2.627 million viewers
• February 14th Episode: 2.626 million viewers
• February 21st Episode: 2.792 million viewers
• February 28th Episode: 2.566 million viewers
• March 7th Episode: 2.738 million viewers

Top 10 SmackDown LIVE moments: WWE Top 10, Mar. 7, 2017