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150 pts &100 off the bench are not the only impressive numbers from last night’s @Raptors series-clincher over @BrooklynNets. Game 4 was most-watched 1st-round NBA playoff game ever in Canada, with 1.3M average national audience. Up 67% over last year. Aggregate = 3.2M Canadians. https://twitter.com/TheSportMarket/s...033798144?s=19 -------- How is Canadian Soccer doing on TV (CBC Aug 15 and TSN on Aug18,21 )? Here are some numbers for. @CanPl vs. @MLS based on AMA (Average Minute Audience 2+). York9-AtleticO (not live): 64,000; HFX-Pacific: 86,000 TFC-Whitecaps#1: 95,800 TFC-Whitec.#2: 88,100. https://twitter.com/KRunitedMedia/st...064127488?s=20 |
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GTA millenials and younger are NBA fans over NHL. MLB was making here but then we lost all of our fun and cool players. I remember 5 years ago so many little kids dressing like Bautista for Halloween.
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Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018 ESPN has tried to focus more on sports, but that changed with George Floyd Ben Strauss Washington Post June 6, 2020 |
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TFC has always struggled to get good TV ratings and you might remember that their fans on here would say that it's because their audience is so tech-savvy that they all stream the games - in (allegedly) hugely disproportionate shares compared to any other team. But in terms of eyeballs in front of TV screens, Vancouver has more viewers than Toronto (certainly relative to the size of the market), and of course Montreal does as well. |
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They used to publish the weekly sports ratings and stop at 100k. TFC rarely made the list, Vancouver would be near the bottom but what intrigues me is the proximity of CPL to the TFC ratings. What does that say? |
Anyone know if boxing is back on in Montreal these days or is it just the TopRank and PBC fights on ESPN and FOX out of the U.S. still?
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L'Impact are generally in the 175-200k range. All of this pre-COVID of course. |
Yeah I am a big boxing fan I love how Montreal respects the sweet science and is such a great fight town. GGG and Lomachenko are my favorite fighters these days.
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It's not ubiquitous by any stretch, but I hear it at the office, at kids' activities when dads are hanging out, etc. |
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BTW the voices on this trailer are the actual ring announcers and TV commentators, they aren't dubbed script for the movie by a narrator. |
Canada has a very rich history of great fighters that goes unnoticed at times which is sad from Sam Langford maybe one of the greatest fighters of any era, Lennox Lewis, Donovan Razor Ruddock, Donny Lalonde who almost beat Sugar Ray Leonard in his prime for the championship in 1988, Arturo Gatti, Jean Pascal, Tommy Burns, George Chuvalo, the Hilton Brothers.
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It also should be noted that CBC is more accessible than TSN when comparing the two. TFC games versus MTL/VAN aren't really competitive. I don't blame people for not tuning in. The CPL winner versus (probably) TFC will be fun, though. |
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I've been saying for years that one of the reasons why CFL viewership has dropped is due to the exclusive TSN control and its limited reach. Wouldn't it be nice if CPL was more popular in Canada than MLS and its Van/Mtl/Tor crying to be let in? Dare to dream. |
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Either way, MLS teams would not benefit from moving from MLS to CPL as things currently stand. CPL would have to become wildly popular and MLS would need a significant decline for this scenario to make any sense whatsoever. |
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Yes, I realize that TFC are having a decent run right now. |
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It could conceivably happen that the CPL could become more popular than MLS (we have to distinguish between popularity and financial value). Aside from each team's own area, what cross Canada support/appeal does MLS have? They are in a conundrum where there are at the same time too few and too many teams. While you can arguably make the case that both the NHL and CFL have a "Canada's team" and by default so are the Jays and Raps, MLS lacks this dynamic. TFC at best could capture the huge GTA market but they've already grabbed the brass ring and attendance started to decrease right after they won. IMO the honeymoon is over for MLS in Canada, you might see a surge if either Montreal or Vancouver are close to the prize but I really don't see where the growth will come from in Canada. |
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I eventually moved into a condo building which came with cable. I started watching CFL again but lots of people likely moved over to the NFL/NCAA when it moved to TSN. I know 'football' people in Toronto who've never watched a CFL game and would have trouble naming all the teams. |
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Slightly OT for this thread, but:
https://mediaprocanada.tv/en/news/ca...orts_in_the_us Canadian Premier League's Island Games To Air on Fox Sports in the US A total of 23 first-stage games will be broadcast across FS2 and Fox Soccer Plus, with live coverage beginning last week. The first game, the fixture between Pacific FC and York9 FC, was the highest-rated program of the day on FS2. --- Granted, FS2's schedule is filled with a lot of re-runs of borderline niche sports, but still good to see Canadian content broadcasting abroad. The big thing in this agreement is the Caribbean gaining access to CPL matches which is a pretty big market for players and fans. This is in addition to broadcast agreements currently in place for India and parts of Africa for the Island Games. |
via @SportsnetPR: Raptors/Celtics games six averaged 1.6M viewers.
--- Raptors second round game 7 last year against Philly had a 2.2M average so we're mostly right in line with last season. |
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Are you ready for some footbaaaallll !!!
It's good to have football back - especially with fall-like weather kicking in much earlier than normal. |
Last night’s NFL season kickoff game between Kansas City and Houston has set a new record for most-watched Thursday Night Football season opener, attracting an average audience of 904,000 viewers to @CTV and @TSN_Sports, an increase of +15% over last year. https://t.co/3Py7NiWpvg
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Also, "4.5 million unique Canadian viewers tuned in to watch some part of the Chiefs’ 34-20 victory."
Nice, and Thursday nights games aren't generally as liked by NFL fans to begin with for some reason. I wonder how many were like me and were watching for free with an antenna. |
I wonder how many watched the first few minutes to see if there would be an anthem protest or how an Argos crowd looked in that stadium before moving on to something else.
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I guess I can see how posting about NFL ratings is informative and in keeping with the spirit of this thread, but I don't really get why some of the postsare celebratory.
"Woo-hoo! 4 million Canadians watched the final episode of American Idol or Temptation Island! Hooray for us!" |
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Ratings for damn near everything must be up across the board this year, no? In the past I haven't typically watched much TV apart from Jets and CFL games as well as the news, but I sure as hell have been watching a lot more TV in 2020...
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