Friday Night SmackDown's overnight figures leading into TLC

Originally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2019/12/14/friday-night-smackdowns-overnight-figures-leading-into-tlc/

Friday Night SmackDown leading into Sunday’s TLC event saw the show did in viewership while topping other network programs in the main demo.

The show averaged 2,420,000 viewers from 8-9 pm Eastern and fell 7% in the second hour. The overall average for the episode was 2,339,000 in the overnights, which was down 4.5% from last week.

The final number will be out Monday reflecting the entire country.

In adults 18-49, they show did a 0.7 and 0.6 over the two hours ahead of the other network programs on Friday night. They also led among adults 18-34 with a 0.4 over the two hours.

Year-to-year, SmackDown was up 16% from this week in 2018 where the show averaged 1,977,000 viewers on the USA Network for an episode featuring Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair.