Last Friday night’s Royal Rampage episode of AEW Rampage was able to draw 415,000 viewers, while this past Friday night’s episode of WWE SmackDown on FS1 was able to draw 1.230 million viewers, according to Wrestlenomics. AEW Rampage’s total viewership is up 33.87% from last week’s Rampage episode, which drew 310,000 viewers and a rating of 0.10 in the 18-49 key demo. This past Friday’s rating of 0.11 is up 10% from last week’s episode of AEW Rampage.
WWE SmackDown on FS1’s total viewership is down 46.73% from last week’s WWE SmackDown on FOX episode, which drew 2.309 million viewers and a rating of 0.62 in the 18-49 key demographic and up 36.36% from the 902,000 viewers that the previous WWE SmackDown on FS1 episode drew on December 2nd, 2022 for the post-Survivor Series episode. This past Friday night’s rating of 0.36 is down 41.93% from last week’s WWE SmackDown on FOX episode, which drew a 0.62 rating in the key 18-49 demo and up 44% from the 0.25 key demo rating that the previous WWE SmackDown on FS1 episode drew last December. AEW Rampage’s 0.11 rating represents a total of 143,000 viewers, which is up 14.4% from last week’s 125,000 viewers with a rating of 0.10. WWE SmackDown on FS1’s 0.36 rating represents 474,000 viewers, which is down 18.05% from last week’s 808,000 viewers with a rating of 0.62 and up 45.4% from the 326,000 viewers the last FS1 episode drew in December.
Last Friday night’s episode of AEW Rampage drew the twelfth-highest total audience of the year so far and the seventh-highest key demo rating of the year so far, tied with four other episodes, while this past Friday night’s WWE SmackDown on FS1 drew the best numbers of any FS1 preemption so far.
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