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Many of the sports that do well on Canadian TV are heavily slanted towards 55+ because those are the people primarily still captured by ratings. The commercials and types of advertisers running during events are always an easy indicator of how old the audience is. Quote:
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That said, I would never say that it hasn't become quite popular in Canada over the years. If it hadn't it might actually register as the most unsuccessful mass media marketing blitz in history. They've even been pushing it really hard in Quebec in the past five years or so. Especially RDS which is of course allied with TSN and, by extension, ESPN. Though AFAIK we don't have any live coverage of games on Quebec networks until the very end of the tournament. But they do chat it up on sportscasts and magazine shows occasionally. Not long ago you never used to hear anything about it here. |
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No doubt about that! |
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I'm assuming curling streaming numbers are less than NCAA for both legal and illegal streams in Canada. Curling's audience is going to be primarily focused on cable figures given demographics of viewing audience. |
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I picked a bracket because my son wanted me to be in his bracket group but I had no idea what I was doing and haven't watched a second of MM. Though I do check the SCORE app (which is fantastic btw) quite a bit for all sorts of sports. |
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We often talk sports: mostly NHL and hockey in general but also Olympics, MLS, FIFA WC, tennis, F1 and combat sports. A bit of NFL, a bit of CFL. Baseball very occasionally. Over all these years NCAA MM has never come up in the discussions. |
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Was the IIHF world hockey championship final between Canada and Finland broadcast anywhere in English?
I watched it on RDS network 1 but did not see it on TSN, Sportsnet or even the CBC. CBC were showing rugby between Fiji and Samoa, with their own announcers! Sportsnet also had some regional Australian rugby (Warringah?) on one of their channels. |
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I didn't watch the game but I certainly saw enough mentions of it in my twitter feed to make me believe it was available somewhere?!
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I didn't even know it was being played I was at the gym with 20 different tvs on and they only had basketball and race car driving on.
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CF montreal only averaging 13700 fans a game 26th in mls attendance. Team is winning so I gotta think the location of Stade Saputo must be hurting them? I wonder if they relocated to molson stadium and renovated it would they have better attendance downtown?
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Montreal will be in danger of moving if they don't get those significant renovations to stade saputo in the near future. They play in an MLS 1.0 stadium which doesn't provide the revenue streams that the other newer stadiums enjoy. Same applies to Vancouver. Both teams are last in terms of revenue in the MLS losing buckets of money every year.
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Attendance for the Canadian Premier League looks pretty bad for the most part. The league definitely lost momentum due to COVID.
I try to watch whatever highlights of the games whenever available: -Edmonton games announce attendance around 500, but it looks like there are around 100 people there. -Winnipeg games announce crowds around 2500, but it looks like 1000 or so people in attendance. -Calgary games announce crowds of 3-4000...looks about right. -Pacific FC games announce crowds around 3,000...looks about right - Halifax Wanderers no longer sellout but come pretty close so they are still going strong. -York...no idea, but I remember their attendance was pretty terrible in the past. -Hamilton averages around 3,000...looks about right. -Ottawa averaging between 3-4000...hard to tell how many people are there as almost the entire crowd is on the same side as the camera. Attendance is noticeably down from 3 year ago. I'm sure some of that may be due to the lingering effects of COVID, but not necessarily all of it. It will be interesting to see how some of the teams deal with terrible attendance and financial losses in the coming years leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Will they be willing to sustain losses that likely add up to millions of dollars in the hopes of a turnaround in 5 or 6 years...or will some owners throw up their hands and walk away? Edmonton is a team to watch. The owner had to find additional ownership/investors for the team last year or earlier this year from what I heard. That team has been hemorraging money for years going back to their North American Soccer League days. |
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