WWE Smackdown Rating Ticks Down, Audience Hits Seven-Week High

The demo rating for last week’s WWE Smackdown was down a bit from the week before, while the audience hit a multi-week high point. Friday’s show brought in a 0.24 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 1.212 million viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers were down 4.0% and up 13.9% respectively from the previous week’s 0.25 demo rating and audience of 1.064 million.

The demo rating was still an improvement from the 0.22 rating from two weeks ago, while the total audience was the best since the May 22nd episode had 1.256 million viewers. The top spot for the night went to Big Brother: Unlocked on CBS with a 0.40 demo rating and 2.346 million viewers. Second place went to Smackdown.

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings makes ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, WWE Smackdown is currently averaging a 0.284 demo rating and 1.222 million viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.431 and 1.487 million for the same time period in 2025.