Tuesday’s episode of WWE SmackDown Live scored a 1.86 rating, which is up from the 1..76 rating the show drew last week. The show did 2.658 million viewers, which is up from the 2.454 million viewers the show did last Tuesday. They came close to reaching Raw’s 2.68 million viewers this week.
SmackDown Live ranked #1 in the top 150 shows on cable for the night. USA Network must be happy with these numbers because they are above average from what they were doing on Thursday nights.
Here are the viewership numbers for the show this year:
1/7/2016: 2,757,000
1/14/2016: 2,332,000
1/21/2016: 2,757,000
1/28/2016: 2,720,000
2/04/2016: 2,664,000
2/11/2016: 2,414,000
2/18/2016: 2,458,000
2/25/2016: 2,395,000
3/3/2016: 2,491,000
3/10/2016: 2,186,000
3/17/2016: 2,260,000
3/24/2016: 2,501,000
4/1/2016: 2,328,000
4/7/2016: 2,444,000
4/14/2016: 2,355,000
4/21/2016: 2,431,000
4/28/2016: 2,109,000
5/5/2016: 2,346,000
5/12/2016: 2,262,000
5/19/2016: 2,295,000
5/26/2016: 2,112,000
6/2/2016: 2,169,000
6/9/2016: 1,996,000
6/16/2016: 2,073,000
6/23/2016: 2,145,000
6/30/2016: 2,080,000
7/7/2016: 2,241,000
7/14/2016: 2,068,000 – last SmackDown on Thursday nights.
7/19/2016: 3,170,000 – first SmackDown on Tuesday nights.
7/26/2016: 2,743,000
8/2/2016: 2,681,000
8/9/2016: 2,455,000
8/16/2016: 2,471,000
8/23/2016: 2,714,000
8/30/2016: 2,835,000
9/6/2016: 2,454,000
9/13/2016: 2,658,000