Friday Night SmackDown experienced a drop in its latest figures following the Elimination Chamber.
The March 6 episode from Portland averaged 1,190,000 viewers and 368,000 viewers (0.27) in the 18-49 demographic on the USA Network.
The post-Elimination Chamber show saw a 14% drop in viewers and 20.5% decline in the core demographic. Males in the demo dropped by 17%, and females fell by 23% this week.
The show ranked second in prime time on cable on Friday behind the NBA on ESPN while also airing against the World Baseball Classic on Fox, FS1, and FS2.
It was SmackDown’s lowest numbers on USA since January 23 (which was the last Friday before the results of the DASH study were incorporated by Nielsen).
SmackDown dropped from a 0.17 to 0.13 among adults 18-34 and was down from 0.44 to 0.35 with adults 25-54.
The featured a rare title defense where Drew McIntyre dropped the Undisputed WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes.
Data: Programming Insider & Wrestlenomics
