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WWE SmackDown Grows On MyNetworkTV

Wrestling program grows viewership over last week's MyNetworkTV premiere. Delivers 2.1 household rating, 3.5 million people.

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/13/2008 1:48:00 PM

My Network TV scored another viewership record Friday with the second installment of WWE Friday Night SmackDown.

The wrestling show, which move to the network this season from The CW, recorded a 2.1 household rating and almost 3.5 million people, the biggest-ever audience for the network, beating the week-old record of a 1.9 rating and 3.2 million people for the first WWE outing the previous Friday.

Also for the second week, wrestling was the top show with men 18-49 on the night.

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

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  Not hard for MYNetWork TV to boast about its ratings boost from Smackdown, considering I had never even heard of the network before. Now ask WWE if they have noticed a boost in viewership, because I don't know of anyone who can watch it now.

  
  

  
  D Smith - 10/28/2008 3:00:00 PM EDT
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