Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 6/10/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• The NBA Finals (5.9) continued on its nearly dead-even year-to-year pace; this game was a single tenth ahead of last year's Game 3.

• In the first of the annual showdown between the NBA and America's Got Talent, Talent took a 10% week-to-week hit. However, The Night Shift (1.5) remained impressively steady.

• On cable, Pretty Little Liars (1.1) returned down from last summer's 1.3 premiere, while newbie lead-out Chasing Life (0.5) had an unpromising start. (The first post-PLL episode of last year's Twisted had a 0.5, but that episode had been previewed months earlier; the first completely new episode rose to 0.7 the next week.) And the declines continued for USA's Royal Pains (0.6), which opened up season six at a new series low.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night	1.0	34%	-9%	-0.1	n/a	3/3	-9%	-9%	-17%	1.3
NBA Countdown	1.6	41%	+23%	+0.3	-0.1	2/3	-16%	+45%	-16%	2.3
NBA Finals	5.9	51%	-2%	-0.1	+0.3	3/3	+2%	+329%	+7%	8.0
							ABC:	+240%	+4%
NCIS (R)	0.9	14%						-14%	-18%	1.2
NCIS: Los Angeles (R)	0.7	14%						-30%	-33%	1.0
Person of Interest (R)	0.6	16%						-25%	+0%	0.9
							CBS:	-23%	-20%
America's Got Talent Tue	2.6	29%	-10%	-0.3	n/a	3/3	-13%	-9%	-10%	3.4
The Night Shift	1.5	28%	+0%	+0.0	-0.3	2/3	n/a	+3%	-51%	1.7
							NBC:	-6%	-24%
Riot	0.4	43%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	3/4	n/a	-11%	-77%	0.5
I Wanna Marry Harry	0.4	51%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	2/4	n/a	+14%	-75%	0.7
							Fox:	+0%	-76%
Famous in 12	0.3	60%	+50%	+0.1	n/a	1/2	n/a	+50%	+50%	0.4
Supernatural (R)	0.3	60%						+0%	+50%	0.4
							CW:	+20%	+50%
							Big5:	+51%	-19%

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.