SpoilerTV has released the preliminary ratings and viewership for last Friday’s edition of WWE SmackDown on FOX.
The December 1st FOX episode averaged 1.952 million viewers, up from the November 24th show’s 789,000 viewers on FS1. For comparison, the final audience for the last live FOX TV broadcast was 2.206 million viewers. The overnight preliminary audience for the November 17th broadcast was 2.22 million viewers.
WWE SmackDown also drew a preliminary rating of 0.53 in the P18-49 key demo, up from the 0.24 rating rating from the FS1 broadcast on November 24. For comparison, the November 17th episode drew a final rating of 0.62. The overnight rating for November 17 was 0.59.
WWE SmackDown faced stiff competition on Friday, with the NCAA Pac-12 Championship between Washington and Oregon on ABC which topped the primetime network programming that night with 7.254 million viewers and a 1.72 rating in the key demo.
The final ratings will be out later today.
