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I would suspect Growler attendance is around that, possibly a little more. Average attendance numbers probably aren't available yet since it's their first season and the season is still young. Their first home game was a sellout though, at around 6200 people, and night two has 5325 attendees. I would guess it'll even out around 4000-4200 a game, which is around what the Ice Caps averaged in their lame duck (ie. last) year in St. John's, when everyone knew they were leaving so they decided to try and not get any more emotionally invested. EDIT: I found the ECHL's reports on attendance, I'll get you a number. EDIT 2: Good guess on my part, their current average attendance is 3929 a game. |
^ I wonder if there is some hockey fatigue in St. John's with the carousel of teams that have been coming and going over the last 20 years? It's probably tough to build up much of a clientele when every few years it's a new team and a new league starting from scratch again... that type of disruption probably doesn't create the most enticing proposition for local hockey fans. If I was faced with that I'd probably opt to stay home and watch the NHL on TV instead.
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I'm more surprised that the NBL has done so well in the city. There was never any indication that people cared about basketball. |
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I remember the St. John's Ice Caps thread on the Winnipeg Jets forum at the HFBoards years ago. I seem to recall some of the members there stating that the AHL was more popular in St. John's then the CHL.
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And the AHL would be above the CHL. Though obviously some CHL matchups likely give some AHL games a run for their money. |
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Even though it's anathema to some (:P), you get some CFL games that are more entertaining and better executed than some NFL games. |
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CHL rosters aren't as seasoned but no one is there to simply play out the string. |
CFL ratings were up five percent this year, with an average of 730,000 per game. They were up 15 percent in the 18-49 demo. This includes the RDS numbers.
That increase from the 18-49 age bracket is pretty good news. |
This could come under marketing, I met Marcus "the Stro" Stroman today and he related the story below. Nice fella. That's not me in the story. :)
Searching for Stroman: Fan has special encounter with Jays pitcher on Signal Hill |
Vanier Cup averaged 293K viewers on TVA Sports according to their Twitter.
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Physical attendance at Telus Stadium was up this year to 12,380 (from 10,754 in Hamilton last year). The Vanier Cup returns to Quebec City again next year. -------- Richard Therrien outlines that the Canadiens garnered 458K on RDS on Friday Afternoon and 726K on TVA Sports on Saturday night, the highest on the season for the latter. |
I was actually surprised to see empty seats at Laval.
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TV ratings for the Grey Cup are in, and they're not good for the League.
Viewership was 3.1 million, down 23 per cent from last year. This also means that season ratings over last year actually decreased 0.3%. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/26/gr...g-23-per-cent/ |
I was going to post this earlier in the week but I didn't want to give our resident CFL hater any ammunition.
Just to put the above headline into context if people don't read the article it had Ottawa Redblacks/Hamilton Tiger-Cats 729,000 Calgary Stampeders/Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1.2 million I have yet to see a reason why Ottawa constantly rates so low, they have a good fanbase and are an interesting, fairly exciting team to watch. The Redblacks TV ratings have been near the lowest since the get go, something is not right there. This sets up a Grey Cup that will not likely be a great number, Ottawa and the ever present Calgary. The problem with the CFL is that it is competing with it's own history. Other sports get those numbers and they trumpet how great it is and the double digit increases but the CFL gets it and it's a failure. I don't get it. As I've said many times, in the NFL 6-3 is a titanic defensive struggle, in the CFL it's two crappy offenses. |
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