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Strong start for the CFL on TV. Let's hope they can keep it up through this year and onwards!
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Glad to see those Formula numbers. I was a casual F1 fan until I started watching Drive to Survive on Netflix. Now I’m hooked! Like the European soccer, love watching with a coffee the qualis and racing weekend mornings.
The production and access to the teams is amazing. I believe they turned it up a level since a US entertainment company bought F1. |
Bombers get their first sellout with the banjo bowl. Hopefully attendance for Winnipeg can average out to 28-30k by the end of the year.
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Crowded night up against the Federal debate:
Sept 9 Jays/Yankees: 969,000 (SN) Bucs/Cowboys: 790,000 (TSN/CTV2) US Open: 534,000 (TSN) Debate: CTV/CP24/BNN/CTVNC: 1.01M CBC/CBCNC: 963k Global: 538k https://twitter.com/AHBSeaborn/statu...04698383269889 |
I am surprised the tennis is that low.
Though I am positive the numbers on RDS were really good. A few years ago when Bianca Andreescu was in the US Open, her semi-final got 350,000 and her final got 750,000 on RDS. And she isn't from Quebec. My guess is that last night the semi-final probably topped the 350,000 figure on RDS fairly easily. |
And BTW... Go Félix! :cheers:
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Honestly wonder about these numbers sometimes, I think it was Genie Bouchard's number at the US Open that surprised me at how low it was. I'm going on memory and may have this all wrong but it was well publicized, it should have been better. In today's market it would be great but this was back in 2014.
I looked it up: Bouchard's final loss to Petra Kvitova averaged 1.1 million on TSN, a number that would have been substantially higher had it gone more than two sets. It drew an average of 1.8 million when French-language RDS's ratings are thrown in -- a record for tennis in this country. Making those numbers even more impressive is the fact that Saturday at 9 a.m. ET (6 a.m. on the West Coast) is hardly prime viewing time. It's better than I remember but I guess I was expecting Olympic size numbers because of the buildup. Also wonder why Ottawa RedBlacks numbers are so low and have been since the beginning. They have an engaged fan base, they've never been a boring team and they found success quickly. I know at one time Ottawa was not a metered market but I'm pretty sure they have been for a while now. Maybe, similar to TFC, all their fans are in the stadium. |
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There was a tremendous buzz about Leyla here Saturday afternoon and social media was almost as active as a Habs playoff game. We went to some friends for dinner that evening and when we got there our hosts (not known for being tennis fans) were watching the match on TV. |
For those who can read French here is an article from La Presse published earlier this summer about NHL TV ratings.
https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...re-au-pays.php Most interesting to me is that the Ottawa Senators get higher ratings in French than in English. |
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So when the Redblacks are the Als' opponent there is definitely that boost, though RDS ratings for Reblacks-Argos, Redblacks-Elks are obviously considerably lower. |
RDS CFL ratings are in another league when the Alouettes are playing, compared with any other CFL games they show.
Even Grey-Cup-with-Alouettes vs. Grey-Cup-without-Alouettes is a ten-fold difference. Think 1 to 1.5 million vs. 150,000. |
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It is interesting to me how many people come out of the woodwork for these types of major tennis events given that I only know of a few people who play regularly and only one couple who are dedicated tennis fans to the extent that they travel to watch the major tournaments around the world, etc. |
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There is just something about a hard-fought one-on-one duel. (And one that is less barbaric than boxing or UFC.) |
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Tennis has a couple of good events throughout Canada aside from the Rogers Cup in Montreal and Toronto. I think there are good level tennis Challenger events in Vancouver and Gatineau each year among others. Looking forward to having the Davis and Fed Cups again given our national strength at this stage. |
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I guess later I only followed the big name, big game events. Borg/MacEnroe at Wimbledon, Jimmy Connors etc. Now, the only tennis I'll watch is if a Canadian makes it to a final and I didn't even bother to watch Fernandez this time. All this got me to thinkin'. I always wanted a pair of classic Stan Smiths and they have somehow eluded me, time to pay Amazon a visit. |
ATP and WTA tennis (similarly to F1) also has an international jet set aura about it that appeals to a lot of people.
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