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[Project Downtime]

Better late than never

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#QueenOfHarts
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[Silkk]

Already whooping they ass in the ratings

 

[Lord Scion]

WWE Draft SmackDown beats Monday's Raw in viewership

The SmackDown draft show, the first of the now-weekly Tuesday live shows, did 3.17 million viewers, which would be the best SmackDown rating since it moved to the USA Network.

The rating was up from the 2.0 to 2.3 million that the show was doing on Tuesdays, but that was expected. The number was very slightly ahead of the 3.13 million viewers Raw did the night prior, but it figured to be since the show had been hyped for weeks and was considered the most important television show in months.

The show placed sixth for the night on cable, trailing only news shows on Fox News and beat repeat programming on ABC, as well as FOX and CW head-to-head, as well as CNN. More eyes were on USA for SmackDown during the two hours than any stations other than CBS, NBC and Fox News.

In the 18-49 demo, SmackDown was the top rated show on cable and delivered far more male viewers in particular than the show had been doing on Thursdays when SmackDown of late had the highest concentration of female viewers of any WWE wrestling-based television show.

The number wasn't unexpectedly high, but the question is how well it maintains and what the regular number for a non-special show turns out to be.

#TheShift

 

[jadden]

WWE Draft SmackDown beats Monday's Raw in viewership

The SmackDown draft show, the first of the now-weekly Tuesday live shows, did 3.17 million viewers, which would be the best SmackDown rating since it moved to the USA Network.

The rating was up from the 2.0 to 2.3 million that the show was doing on Tuesdays, but that was expected. The number was very slightly ahead of the 3.13 million viewers Raw did the night prior, but it figured to be since the show had been hyped for weeks and was considered the most important television show in months.

The show placed sixth for the night on cable, trailing only news shows on Fox News and beat repeat programming on ABC, as well as FOX and CW head-to-head, as well as CNN. More eyes were on USA for SmackDown during the two hours than any stations other than CBS, NBC and Fox News.

In the 18-49 demo, SmackDown was the top rated show on cable and delivered far more male viewers in particular than the show had been doing on Thursdays when SmackDown of late had the highest concentration of female viewers of any WWE wrestling-based television show.

The number wasn't unexpectedly high, but the question is how well it maintains and what the regular number for a non-special show turns out to be.

And so it begins


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[Lord Scion]

Alright #SDSet, we gotta have a little meeting right here in our war room.

How do you all think the belt situation is going to work out?

As of right now, we only have the WWE and IC Championships while those other guys have the Women's, Tag, U.S, and soon the Cruiserweight titles.

Do you think we're going to keep the WWE Championship post PPV? Similar to the 2002 draft where we got the title and RAW had to create a new one? Or are we going to have to create a whole bunch of new titles so our talent have something to fight for?

 

[RammerJammer]

Alright #SDSet, we gotta have a little meeting right here in our war room.

How do you all think the belt situation is going to work out?

As of right now, we only have the WWE and IC Championships while those other guys have the Women's, Tag, U.S, and soon the Cruiserweight titles.

Do you think we're going to keep the WWE Championship post PPV? Similar to the 2002 draft where we got the title and RAW had to create a new one? Or are we going to have to create a whole bunch of new titles so our talent have something to fight for?

RAWs gotta share the Tag Titles, not enough teams. We could get a separate Women's title though, seeing as RAW only has one more woman than us. I think this time around, RAW is gonna end up with the WWE title and we'll get the WHC title somewhere down the line.

 

[YakSpiller]

They need to do it like the NFL, and treat SD/RAW like AFC/NFC.

 

[Project Downtime]

Alright #SDSet, we gotta have a little meeting right here in our war room.

How do you all think the belt situation is going to work out?

As of right now, we only have the WWE and IC Championships while those other guys have the Women's, Tag, U.S, and soon the Cruiserweight titles.

Do you think we're going to keep the WWE Championship post PPV? Similar to the 2002 draft where we got the title and RAW had to create a new one? Or are we going to have to create a whole bunch of new titles so our talent have something to fight for?

Can see the women's bouncing back and forth via the one of big 4 ppvs.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Seriously though having no Gotham or MNF to go against might end up making Smackdown the most watched show. Tuesdays are quiet for 18-49 year olds.

 

[cartierhoe]

#SDSet here we go



#LuchaThangs

 

[Lord Scion]

Seriously though having no Gotham or MNF to go against might end up making Smackdown the most watched show. Tuesdays are quiet for 18-49 year olds.

A lot of factors in SmackDown's favor viewership wise.

John Cena being the only guy who can pop a rating these days. Reigns is too toxic, and Rollins... as talented as he is, isn't a huge ratings magnet as long as they stubbornly keep him heel. Of course they have Brock Lesnar but he only works a part time schedule. And add a returning Randy Orton who can give us a nice little viewership bump next week and we should be okay. Of course he doesn't work a full time schedule either but the Orton effect usually wears off after a week or two anyway.

We are only two hours. The third RAW hour has been a viewership killer and always drags their overall ratings down.

And of course, we don't have to compete against MNF or any of the other huge monday night programming. The days of getting sonned by Love & Hip-Hop are over

But we have to remain pessimistic, this is still WWE programming and we are a bit top heavy. There are talented guys on this roster who a lot of people don't give a shyt about due to their horrible booking, now that they have their own live show to shine we have to give them a little time to develop so these first few weeks are going to be rough.

 

[RammerJammer]

If y'all could pick the SmackDown theme song, what would it be?

 

[Silkk]

If y'all could pick the SmackDown theme song, what would it be?

 

[RammerJammer]

That would fit perfectly

 

[Ozweego]

OG Smackdown theme so classic .