Spotted Ratings, Sunday 5/19/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• Awards shows remain one of the best (only?) ways the broadcast networks can draw viewers to Sunday. ABC's Billboard Music Awards were up a whooping 30% from last year's 2.7 and the show's biggest rating since December 2003 (when it aired on Fox). They nearly doubled last week's ABC drama finales. CBS curiously aired an ACM Tim McGraw special against it and didn't do much.

• The other two networks wrapped up their seasons of Sunday entertainment programs with Celebrity Apprentice only barely growing week-to-week and Fox hosting one-hour finales for The Cleveland Show, The Simpsons and Family Guy. The last two were close to even year-to-year, but Celebrity Apprentice was down huge from last year's 2.2.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
America's Funniest Home Videos	6.82	1.7	+21%	n/a	2/22	+13%	+26%	+17%	1.89
Billboard Music Awards	9.48	3.5				+30%	+89%	+31%	3.48
60 Minutes	10.19	1.3	-13%	n/a	28/30	-10%	-13%	-7%	1.46
60 Minutes	8.15	1.2	-8%	n/a	30/31	-17%	-54%	-20%	1.34
ACM Tim McGraw	5.98	1.2				n/a	-52%	-2%	1.36
The Voice Spring (R)	2.37	0.6					-31%	-41%	0.67
Celebrity Apprentice	5.30	1.5	+15%	-33%	8/12	-32%	+18%	-32%	1.73
The Cleveland Show	2.14	1.0	+0%	n/a	19/22	-23%	+25%	+0%	1.08
The Cleveland Show	2.43	1.1	+10%	n/a	18/23	-15%	+10%	-15%	1.42
The Simpsons	4.09	1.9	-5%	+10%	18/21	-10%	-5%	-14%	2.15
The Simpsons	4.52	2.1	+11%	+73%	14/22	+0%	+31%	+24%	2.13
Family Guy	5.28	2.6	+8%	+31%	10/22	+0%	+8%	+0%	2.55
Family Guy	5.16	2.5	-4%	+24%	14/23	-4%	+32%	-4%	2.52

KEY (click to expand)

Viewers - The total number of viewers (age 2+, in millions) that watched the program.
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 percent 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 that have aired so far this season.
y2y - The show's A18-49 rating compared to its rating a year ago.
TLa - The show's A18-49 rating compared to the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - The show's A18-49 rating compared to the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True2 - The second edition of True Strength, 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.