Spotted Ratings, Sunday 2/28/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Academy Awards ended up with a 10.5 demo, down 5% from last year. The red carpet segments (2.6/4.0/5.9) were in the same general vicinity year-to-year-wise. 
• AMC's The Walking Dead dropped to a 6.08 against the Oscars.

• Sunday was all about the Academy Awards, and the show appears to have slowed its rate of decline from last season but not erased it entirely. In the prelims, the show averaged an 11.0 at 8:30, a 9.6 in the 9:00 hour and a 9.1 in the 10:00 hour. That adds up to roughly a 9.7, down 6% from last year's 10.3 prelim. It will adjust up after accounting for West Coast viewing. (Last year went from a 10.3 prelim to an 11.0 final.)

• The other three networks were in newsmagazine/repeat/movie mode. All three networks averaged about a 0.7 for the night; CBS aired 60 Minutes (0.8/0.8) and movie Last Vegas (0.5/0.6), NBC had Dateline (0.9/1.0) and movie Ted (0.6) and Fox had comedy repeats (0.7/0.7/0.9/0.5/0.7/0.5).

FULL TABLE:

Name	A18-49	Skew	Last	Lastn	LeLa	Rank	wy2y	TLa	Ty2y	True
Oscar Red Carpet p1	2.6	29%				1/1	-4%	+100%	+100%	2.5
Oscar Red Carpet p2	4.0	32%				1/1	-2%	+208%	+208%	2.8
Oscar Red Carpet p3	5.9	34%				1/1	-8%	+228%	+168%	3.6
Academy Awards	10.5	39%				1/1	-5%	+467%	+356%	5.9
60 Minutes (R)	0.8	16%	-27%	-0.3	+8.7	4/4		-30%	-45%	0.8
60 Minutes (R)	0.8	18%	0%	0.0	-9.7	4/5		-16%	-24%	0.8
Movie: Last Vegas	0.6	20%				1/1		-50%	-50%	0.8
Dateline (R)	1.0	22%	+25%	+0.2	-0.3	1/14		-15%	-20%	1.0
Movie: Ted	0.6	39%				1/1		-25%	-40%	0.8
The Simpsons (R)	0.7	50%	-13%	-0.1	-0.7	8/13	-30%	-36%	-50%	0.8
Bob's Burgers (R)	0.7	51%	+75%	+0.3	+0.4	1/2		-13%	-61%	0.7
The Simpsons (R)	0.9	52%	+29%	+0.2	+0.1	8/14		-31%	-62%	0.9
Cooper Barrett's Guide (R)	0.5	48%	+67%	+0.2	+0.4	1/3		-29%	-79%	0.6
Family Guy (R)	0.7	53%	+75%	+0.3	+0.2	4/5		-46%	-46%	0.9
Bordertown (R)	0.5	46%	+25%	+0.1	+0.3	1/3		-62%	-62%	0.7

Net	TLa	Ty2y
1	+442%	+400%
2	-33%	-44%
3	-40%	-29%
4	-34%	-63%