{"id":47575,"date":"2014-11-14T02:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47575"},"modified":"2014-11-14T02:28:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:58:44","slug":"smackdown-moves-to-thursday-night-wwe-fans-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47575","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown Moves to Thursday Night &#8211; WWE Fans STUNNED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47575 \" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47575 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37782 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WWE-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"WWE Logo\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The show that averages 3.1 million viewers on Friday nights and beats all Friday primetime viewing on any cable network is moving to Thursday nights on Syfy beginning January 15th at 8pm ET. With nearly 800 original episodes, SmackDown is the second longest-running weekly episodic program in U.S. television history, only behind WWE\u2019s other flagship program, Monday Night Raw\u00ae.<br \/>\n&#8220;Quite simply, more young men watch television on Thursday night than on Fridays,\u201d said Michael Engleman, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Digital and Global Brand Strategy, Syfy. \u201cAmong Men 18-49, PUTS are 15 percent higher compared to Fridays, expanding the potential audience for SmackDown. Since the majority of broadcast programming skews female, we&#8217;re also using Thursday nights to counter program.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWWE\u2019s sizable and passionate fan base make SmackDown the #1 entertainment show on Syfy and the most-watched, regularly-scheduled program among key demographics on the network,\u201d said Michelle Wilson, Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer, WWE. \u201cWe look forward to bringing the WWE audience to Thursday nights on Syfy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 15 years, SmackDown has been broadcast from 170 different venues, in 148 cities and towns, in seven different countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Iraq, Japan, Italy and Mexico. The name SmackDown came from WWE Superstar Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u00ae\u201d Johnson\u2019s popular catchphrase, \u201cLay the Smackdown\u00ae.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39305\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">RSR Is NOW Hiring Wrestling Writers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show that averages 3.1 million viewers on Friday nights and beats all Friday primetime viewing on any cable network is moving to Thursday nights on Syfy beginning January 15th at 8pm ET. With nearly 800 original episodes, SmackDown is the second longest-running weekly episodic program in U.S. television history, only behind WWE\u2019s other flagship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11075],"class_list":["post-47575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-smackdown-moves-to-thursday-night-wwe-fans-stunned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47575"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}