WWE Smackdown Rating, Audience Down For Black Friday Episode

Last week’s WWE Smackdown saw a downtick in the rating and audience for its Black Friday episode. Friday’s episode garnered a 0.28 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.142 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are down 3.5% and 5.6% respectively from the previous week’s 0.29 demo rating and audience of 1.210 million.

The demo rating for the show was still up from two weeks ago, when it hit a 0.27. The audience was the lowest since the November 7th episode hit 1.141 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 0.392 demo rating and 1.401 million viewers in 2025 compared to a 0.589 and 2.080 million for the same time period in 2024.