Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 11/6/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• There wasn't a major week-to-week rally on broadcast with the World Series out of the way, perhaps in part because another piece of special programming showed up and did nearly as well: ABC's CMA Awards. That's up 24% year-to-year, but really it's just a return to the show's typical 2010/2011 level after it had a major hiccup when skedded on Thursday last year.

• The show you'd probably expect to get most hit by the awards is Fox's The X Factor, but even accounting for that, its return to the Wednesday schedule was a disaster, only equaling last week's Tuesday special. Last year the show ended up about 20% weaker after the baseball hiatus than before, so it's not inconceivable it could go back up to a 1.8ish with the CMAs out of the picture. (Its last pre-baseball Wednesday ep had a 2.2.) But even that would be pretty bad.

• The most interesting lineup to watch after the World Series was on the CW, because they seemed to suffer most against it. Arrow indeed picked back up by a couple ticks. However, newbie The Tomorrow People continued to disappoint.

• NBC replaced Ironside with Dateline, which was a solid improvement on that show's last episode but did worse than its normal Friday numbers.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
CMA Awards	4.7	36%					+24%	+169%	+70%	4.3
							ABC:	+169%	+70%
Survivor	2.5	34%	+9%	+0.2	n/a	4/8	-11%	+6%	-11%	2.3
Criminal Minds	2.3	30%	-4%	-0.1	+0.2	7/7	-23%	-4%	-25%	2.2
CSI	1.8	25%	+6%	+0.1	-0.1	6/7	-22%	+6%	-22%	1.7
							CBS:	+2%	-19%
Revolution	1.4	34%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	4/7	-50%	+4%	-60%	1.3
Law and Order: SVU	1.5	34%	+7%	+0.1	+0.0	5/6	n/a	+67%	-63%	1.6
Dateline Wed	1.1	32%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-8%	-51%	1.1
							NBC:	+16%	-59%
The X Factor Wed	1.5	42%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	6/7	-42%	-71%	-43%	1.5
							Fox:	-71%	-43%
Arrow	1.0	45%	+25%	+0.2	n/a	2/5	-23%	+33%	-23%	1.0
The Tomorrow People	0.6	49%	+0%	+0.0	+0.2	4/5	n/a	+9%	-40%	0.6
							CW:	+23%	-30%
							Big5:	-8%	-16%

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.

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