Smackdown Rating, Audience Slip From Last Week

– Smackdown took a slight drop in the ratings and viewership this week for the go-home episodes before SummerSlam. Tuesday’s episode brought in a 0.77 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic, down 4% from last week’s 0.80 demo rating. Meanwhile, the audience was 2.53 million which was down 2% from 2.584 million last week. The demo rating was still a hair higher than the 0.76 from two weeks ago, though the audience was actually the lowest since the July 11th episode had 2.465 million.

Smackdown topped the night among cable originals per Showbuzz Daily, beating out the OWN’s Have & Have-Nots for the top spot.