Spotted Ratings, Saturday 4/5/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• CBS had another brutal year-to-year Saturday since they lost the Final Four to Turner per the companies' March Madness arrangement. Turner had the main telecasts on TBS (2.07 for Florida/Connecticut, 3.40 for Kentucky/Wisconsin), but also had "teamcasts" on TNT/TruTV which were more friendly toward the individual schools. Florida/Connecticut had 1.03 TNT/0.33 TruTV, Kentucky/Wisconsin a 1.33 TNT/0.54 TruTV. Adding the teamcast numbers gets the later game (UK/Wisconsin) at least somewhat close to the 5.7 it scored in CBS primetime last year.

• The Saturday half-hour breakdowns were missing on my sheet this week, which normally I wouldn't sweat too much. But this time it's kinda a bummer because the two-hour finale of Rake had a preliminary 0.1 (zero point one) in the 8:30 half-hour, which I believe would be the first time a big four network averaged that for a half-hour. So I can't make that official, but both of Rake's episodes still tied the all-time low for a full program at 0.2.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Agents of SHIELD (R)	0.4	30%						+60%	-11%	0.5
20/20 (R)	0.7	36%						+56%	+8%	1.1
Nightline Primetime	0.8	31%	+33%	+0.2	+0.2	1/4	n/a	+45%	+33%	1.1
							ABC:	+52%	+12%
Person of Interest (R)	0.4	20%						-27%	-92%	0.5
Criminal Minds (R)	0.6	25%						+9%	-88%	0.9
48 Hours	0.8	23%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	11/22	n/a	-6%	-85%	1.1
							CBS:	-8%	-89%
Dateline (R)	0.9	23%						+13%	+50%	1.2
Saturday Night Live (R)	0.7	37%						+0%	+8%	1.0
							NBC:	+9%	+35%
Rake	0.2	25%	-50%	-0.2	n/a	11/11	n/a	-50%	-71%	0.3
Rake	0.2	23%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	11/12	n/a	-33%	-60%	0.5
							Fox:	-43%	-67%
							Big4:	+4%	-68%

KEY (click to expand)

A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.

(R) - Repeat.

Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.