The February 20 Friday Night Smackdown! on MyNetworkTV had 3.719 million average Live+SD viewers, a 2.2 household rating and a 1.3 rating for adults 18-49.
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Nice! I hope heading towards Wrestlemania they can build on that 2.2.
Smackdown! has better matches than Raw but when it comes to storylines, Raw is heating up its main storylines and got another huge rating this week. This will likely help SD! in the coming weeks heading towards Wrestlemania since Cena, Orton, Edge, and HHH are all guaranteed to make appearances on there. Jeff Hardy s/l is heating up with his brother also. I’m predicting a 2.3 at some point before Wrestlemania.
I just wish Smackdown! finds a permanent home where they won’t have to worry about the network’s financial problems.
MyNetworkTV is not having financial problems. They’ve merely changed their programming offering for next season (going from mostly originals, to an IONish mix of originals, encores and outsourced nights), and this is largely due to the anticipated downturn in the ad market. When the ad market rebounds, they are expected to return to a mostly originals line-up.
Is there any particular reason why you give SmackDown it’s own blog post every week?
Andrew, yes, because we don’t get overnight numbers for MyNetTV. When it was on CW, we did, and the numbers were posted there and in the CW weekly top shows list. We don’t do a list like that for MNT due to lack of interest, but there seemed to be some interest in the FNS! numbers