The first live Smackdown on USA Network on a new night drew 3,170,000 viewers, up 1 million viewers from last week’s show thanks to the curiosity stemming from the WWE Draft.
In terms of competition, Smackdown beat Raw in the ratings this week by almost 40,000 viewers. It will be a very difficult job to pull in that number every week for Smackdown but that’s what WWE is aiming for. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
