Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 6/16/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The NBA Finals adjusted up to 8.9 with 23.25 million viewers, up by 1.3 points from the previous couple games. That's 31% above last year's Game 5 finale and a slightly better finale spike than last year's series. The soccer on Fox inched up to 1.8, as did America's Got Talent (2.3) to go even week-to-week.

• ABC's NBA Finals basketball wrapped up for the series with a preliminary 7.2 rating from 9:00-11:00, which is 10-15% above the low-6 prelims for recent games (which adjusted up to mid-7's). It'll probably adjust up more due to the championship moment coming after primetime, but a double digit average feels like a reach. Still, it'll easily destroy the 6.8 average for last year's finale.

• Fox was also in the sports business on this night with another USA group stage match in the Women's World Cup. It averaged a preliminary 1.7, two tenths above the Friday prelim 1.5 which adjusted up to a 1.6 final, despite the NBA competition preventing it from spiking in the 9:00 hour. (The Friday prelim breakdown was 1.3 -> 1.4 -> 1.6 -> 1.7; this one was 1.6 -> 1.8 -> 1.7 -> 1.6.)

• NBC's original lineup had to endure another big dose of sports. While America's Got Talent (2.2) held up OK again, I Can Do That (1.3) got slammed against the bigger NBA hour.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night	1.4	38%	+56%	+0.5	n/a	1/6	n/a	+27%	+56%	1.7
NBA Countdown	2.2	43%	+47%	+0.7	+0.5	1/6	n/a	+16%	+144%	2.8
NBA Finals	8.9	49%	+17%	+1.3	+0.7	1/6	n/a	+32%	+1087%	10.4
							ABC:	+31%	+717%
NCIS (R)	0.9	15%						+20%	+0%	1.2
NCIS: New Orleans (R)	0.7	15%						-7%	-30%	1.3
48 Hours (R)	0.7	18%						+0%	-18%	1.4
							CBS:	+5%	-16%
America's Got Talent Tue	2.3	29%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	3/4	-2%	-1%	-12%	2.7
I Can Do That	1.3	37%	-19%	-0.3	+0.0	4/4	n/a	-19%	+0%	1.7
							NBC:	-6%	-9%
Women's World Cup Soccer	1.8	45%	+13%	+0.2	n/a	1/2	n/a	+100%	+243%	2.3
							Fox:	+100%	+243%
The Flash (R)	0.3	35%						-14%	+50%	0.4
iZombie	0.3	40%	-40%	-0.2	-0.1	14/14	n/a	-45%	+0%	0.5
							CW:	-33%	+20%
							Big5:	+18%	+144%

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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