'WWE Smackdown' Gives MyNet Record Ratings

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MyNetworkTV recorded record ratings again Friday night (Nov. 7) with WWE Smackdown.

The network averaged 1,603,000 viewers 18-49 at 8-10 p.m. Friday, the most viewers in the key demo ever and enough to put the net ahead of NBC in the demo over those two hours. But the 18-49's had plenty of company in that department. The wrestling show also scored network highs in national household ratings with a 2.1. Additional demo records included adults 18-34, adults 25-54 and all the key male demos.

The show, which moved from The CW to MyNetworkTV this season, has been racking up the ratings record for the netlet.

MyNetworkTV Chief Greg Meidel had predicted the show would be a “promotional locomotive” the likes of which his network had not seen before.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.