WWE Smackdown Rating Up, Audience Hits Two-Month High

Last week’s WWE Smackdown saw its ratings and audience jump, with the latter metric hitting a two-month high. Friday’s episode hit a 0.29 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.210 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are up 7.4% and 4.5% respectively from the previous week’s 0.27 demo rating and audience of 1.158 million.

The demo rating for the show was the best in four weeks, going back to when the October 24th episode also hit a 0.29. The viewership was the highest since the September 26th episode scored 1.238 million. Smackdown came in at #3 for the night in the rating, behind the Florida State at NC State game on ESPN (0.47 demo rating, 2.127 million viewers) and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune on ABC (0.31/2.762 million).

As a reminder, Nielsen has changed its ratings system as of early September, which makes ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, WWE Smackdown is averaging a 0.395 demo rating and 1.407 million viewers in 2025 compared to a 0.593 and 2.096 million for the same time period in 2024.