I received a reply from the CBC and I thought I'd share it.
Now this doesn't mean squat but at least someone in the CBC is at least considering the proposal. CBC Audience Services (CBC) Nov 25, 11:30 EST Good morning xxxxx, Thank you for contacting the CBC and for your compliments. We are thrilled that you enjoyed our coverage of the Vanier Cup and I am more than happy to pass your thoughts along to our production team and crew if you'd like. I know how much they will appreciate your kind words. As for your suggestion, I will pass this along to our team for consideration. You bring up a very good point as the quality of USports is not limited to football. Hockey and track and field are only two USports which offer a great deal of excitement, so we will definitely consider more sports. Thank you again, Donald, but if you need anything else, please do not hesitate to let us know. Have a great week, xxxxx! Kind regards, Seamus Keane CBC Audience Services |
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They better hope the Cats make the finals the year they host, because they're going to be papering the house otherwise. |
^ I can see Hamilton doing something similar to Calgary...instead of having temporary bleachers at both ends of the place as shown in the original renderings, maybe they'll just do it at one end and put in temporary suites at the other.
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But then I had a look and Saskatoon has only hosted it once. And some other cities that I thought might have hosted at least once (Halifax, London) never have. So the Vanier Cup was in Toronto at various venues for close to the first 40 years of its existence. Since then it's been mostly hosted in CFL-level cities and Quebec City, which is the closest-thing to a CFL-level city without actually being in the league. Plus Saskatoon one year. So pairing it with the Grey Cup isn't really cheating anyone out of anything. And least not if you look at how things have traditionally been done. I already thought it was a decent idea, and now I think it's an even better idea. Back in my Grey Cup-going days, the Vanier Cup (regardless of the teams) on the Saturday is definitely something my buddies and I would have attended. |
As we allow ourselves to drift into the path of those who dislike the CFL and want that narrative out there, let's remember that it was a successful Grey Cup. Please don't feed the you know whats.
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^ Yeah, the Vanier Cup was for many years like the Grey Cup - basically a Toronto institution. Which on some levels made sense for the Vanier, as it's way more accessible to U Sports football schools than a place like Winnipeg or Saskatoon.
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When will the viewership ratings come out for last nights game? They can't be as dismal as last years 3.1 million viewers.
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107th GREY CUP Presented by Shaw Audience Grows 19%
3.9 Million: average viewership 4.6 Million: peak viewership 9.6 Million: overall viewership of some or all of the coverage More stats, including half-time show numbers and digital streaming (up 77%) here: https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pr...n-tsn-and-rds/ |
Very good numbers had it been a closer game the ratings probably would have been better but with two blue collar football markets playing to end 20+ year droughts it meant much better ratings than the Stamps being in the cup every year.
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That’s good ... obviously the two cities were highly interested plus it had home field interest in Alberta.
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My first thought was that I was expecting a bigger audience, but it was a game between two cities of less than a million people, so there isn't the built-in casual audience bigger cities have (like Toronto two years ago). This is a good number for the league, hopefully they can build on it. The online numbers in particular demonstrate that there is a market for the CFL amongst young cable cutters.
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If you aren't a hardcore fan, being able to get big events on an a la carte basis like that certainly makes cable cutting easier. |
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I would love to see London do something with TD Stadium here. It can be expanded enough (it was built to host the Canada Summer Games in 2001 and I think they put in enough temp seats to being it to almost 20k from it's regular 8000). But really it's a cold boring place, the seating area sucks, with about 100 chairs, a couple thousand benches with backs and the rest are regular aluminum benches, and attendance never justifies a larger seating capacity. Plus, as I said above, Tim Horton's Field is less than 90 minutes away (7 of the 11 OUA football teams are within that radius of it, London being the furthest), so it really makes sense to just use it in Southern Ontario. I could see Ottawa hosting it soon as well, given the success of the Panda game and at least both teams are now competitive. If not sooner, then I would say for sure when the Ottawa next hosts the Grey Cup. Moncton could host as well, and for sure Halifax if they get their stadium done. It will just come down to the competitiveness of the teams in the Atlantic I think. Saint Mary's used to be like Laval, they had an amazing 15 year run, but it's been a long time since they or any other Atlantic team made it to the Vanier. |
^ Ottawa would make a good Vanier Cup location because in addition to the city's competitive teams and reasonably good support for them, it's also very convenient to a good number of other schools in Quebec and Ontario.
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There is less of the "ewww it's not big time enough for us so we can't be bothered" attitude like you have in some other places. |
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2013 Grey Cup - 4.5M - Saskatchewan & Hamilton - in Regina 2014 Grey Cup - 4.1M - Calgary & Hamilton - in Vancouver 2015 Grey Cup - 4.3M - Edmonton & Ottawa - in Winnipeg 2016 Grey Cup - 3.9M - Calgary & Ottawa - in Toronto 2017 Grey Cup - 4.3M - Calgary & Toronto - in Ottawa 2018 Grey Cup - 3.1M - Calgary & Ottawa - in Edmonton 2019 Grey Cup - 3.9M - Winnipeg & Hamilton - in Calgary 2019 notables: 2019 NBA Finals - Game 6 - Warriors & Raptors - 7.7M 2019 NBA Finals - Game 5 - Warriors & Raptors - 6.4M Super Bowl LIII - 4.34M (CTV only) 2019 Stanley Cup Finals - Game 7 - St. Louis & Boston - 4.15M 2019 World Junior Hockey Championships - Quarterfinals - Canada/Finland - 4.0M 2019 Grey Cup - Winnipeg & Hamilton - 3.90M 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs - Round 1 - Boston & Toronto - 3.72M 2019 US Open Women's Final - Andreescu v Williams - 3.40M |
^ Pretty damn impressive considering that unlike most of those events, the Grey Cup is not available on free TV and therefore has a more limited pool of potential viewers. To pull in that many viewers when you're available on a cable channel demonstrates the value of the league to Bell Media. No surprise they re-upped for more money.
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Piecing together some info from various articles over the years:
RDS or TVA Sports ratings Grey Cup with Alouettes playing: 1.25 to 1.5 million Grey Cup without Alouettes: 250,000 Typical Super Bowl: 800,000-1 million Alouettes regular season game: 250-300,000 Alouettes playoff game: 400,000-500,000 Montreal Canadiens regular season game: 750,000-1 million Montreal Impact regular season game: 150,000-200,000 Montreal Impact "big game" (ie Champions League final): 500,000 |
CFL's tv ratings are very healthy and stable the main issue is filling stadiums. Teams gotta be quick to adjust like the eskimos are and have special deals to get kids in the stadium. I know BMO is switching to a party deck this year where the steel temp bleachers will be removed in the endzone. BC lions might be wise to change their seating configuration at BC place tarp the endzone seats on both the lower and upper deck and sell seats just facing the field of play on both lower and upper deck as it gives fans a much better view of the field and were always more popular with Lions fans then the endzone seats are.
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