Smackdown Viewership For Kofi's Gauntlet

[Abdullah]

The March 19 episode of WWE Smackdown Live drew a 1.65 rating, up from the last two weeks which drew 1.60 ratings. It’s the highest rating since the Oct. 16 episode drew 1.72. It also drew the same rating on Sept. 18.

The total viewership was 2.208 million, up from 2.198 million.

In the key 18-49 demographic, Smackdown finished on top of the cable rankings Tuesday night with a 0.7 rating, tied with “Curse of Oak Island” on History Channel, which drew significantly more viewers (3.635 million).

Smackdown, in total viewership, also finished behind “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News and “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC.

- www.pwtorch.com/site/2019/03/20/smackdown-rating-highest-rating-since-last-september-for-show-built-around-kofi-gauntlet-match-key-metrics-cable-ranking/

That's really good to hear.

[Deleted]

Kofi = Ratings

[Dub H]

In unretaled news,nothing to do with anything, WWE has decided to draft Kofi to RAW after WM.

[Rudy Gobert Fingers]

They're doomed when History premieres its next big hit, The Curse Of Tucker Carlson

[gts]

It's crazy how positive ratings threads get so few replies. Viewership rising says the Kofi story is working, is building momentum and hopefully WWE won't mess it up.

[Deleted]

Honestly I saw this days ago but haven't bothered making a thread on SmackDown ratings in weeks because there's no point. It does in the 2.1-2.2 million range every week regardless of what's going on or what Raw's viewership is like, what is there to even say?

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Good for Kofi especially seeing that was such a long segment.The people want Kofi.

[Bear Skin Rug]

Am I missing something? That is not a good number, especially right before WrestleMania.

[Abdullah]

Mar 22, 2019 9:24:52 GMT -5 Bear Skin Rug said:

Am I missing something? That is not a good number, especially right before WrestleMania.

It's relative, I guess. They'd been advertising the gauntlet match for a week, and relatively, it popped a rating. It got more people to tune in.

Should bode well for Kofi's push.

[Feargus McReddit]

Mar 22, 2019 9:24:52 GMT -5 Bear Skin Rug said:

Am I missing something? That is not a good number, especially right before WrestleMania.

For WWE the last few years? Absolutely.

In comparison to how Raw’s doing AND with how WWE’s treated Smackdown overall in the last decade plus, those might as well be Monday Night Wars numbers in terms of keeping steady.

[darbus alan]

Kofi = Ratings.

And given what it tied with, the Knights Templar = ratings. noonetelltheassassins

[Bub (BLM)]

An emotional story with a fan favorite gets people to actually watch. Rocket science, y'all.

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Mar 22, 2019 10:32:41 GMT -5 Abdullah said:

Mar 22, 2019 9:24:52 GMT -5 Bear Skin Rug said:

Am I missing something? That is not a good number, especially right before WrestleMania.

It's relative, I guess. They'd been advertising the gauntlet match for a week, and relatively, it popped a rating. It got more people to tune in.

Should bode well for Kofi's push.

I've been saying for years they need to advertise the main event of Raw and Smackdown for a week before they air. People will tune in if they know there's something they want to see. It would also be a great and easy way for the company to know who is and isn't a draw.

Instead 99% of the time we get a boring promo that eats up the first half hour of the show to set up that night's main event with no advertisements whatsoever.

[KofiMania]

It says only 10,000 more viewers than last week’s episode.

[salz4life]

Good.... Kofi is the type of "new" I like seeing in the title picture!