Observer's Dave Meltzer had an interesting tidbit about the ratings for this week's shows plus last week's Smackdown and the costs associated with them.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Ratings can be confusing and misleading but as far as the key numbers to advertisers and normalized to be fair, based on the actual audience that has access to the show as opposed to making it unfair based on homes that don't even have the channel, these were the 18-49 ratings for this past week: - UFC .47
- Smackdown .77
- Raw 1.01
- Total Divas .17
- NXT .28
- AEW .61
As far as costs to the network for the episode: - UFC $10 million
- Smackdown $4.02 million
- Raw $5.10 million
- Total Divas $400,000
- NXT $588,000
- AEW $500,000 plus a percentage of advertising points
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Also thinks 1.6 million would be the best case scenario for Smackdown's viewership this week.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding Smackdown tonight, between the night and the station, the only way they're topping 1.6 million viewers is if Hogan and Flair still have ratings juice after all of their recent appearances.
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