According to Programming Insider, last Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown on the USA Network, came in with 1.210 million viewers and a 0.29 rating in the key 18-49 demographic.
These numbers are up from the previous week, which had 1.158 million viewers a 0.27 rating.
SmackDown came in at No. 2 for the night on cable, behind the The Florida State vs. NC State college football game on ESPN that had 2.217 million viewers and a 0.47 rating.
Television ratings data is currently measured with the new “Big Data + Panel” methodology. The previous method had data measured using the “panel-only” methodology. This change continues to make it challenging to compare data from the two different ways of measuring viewership.