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Originally Posted by osmo
You may have most of those numbers representative of BC and the lower mainland.
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Or you may have most of those numbers coming from Toronto and the GTA.
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Originally Posted by osmo
If we can't see the number distribution, we have no idea if 200,000 or 20,000 people in Toronto watched the game.
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And for that exact same reason, we have no idea if 600,000 or 700,000 people in Toronto watched the game.
We do know, however, that Toronto Argonauts games consistently generate some of the highest ratings in the CFL and that one of the top regular season games last season was between the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (two GTA teams) with
956,000 viewers.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats game this weekend against the Calgary Stampeders, a Western team, generated 490,000 viewers. But even if we defy conventional wisdom and attribute as much as half of the viewers to Hamilton, that's only 245,000 viewers. Subtract that number from the 956,000 viewers that watched the Toronto/Hamilton game last season, we are left with 711,000 unaccounted viewers. I suppose you will tell us all those viewers came from Saskatchewan or BC or anywhere other than the GTA, since the rest of Canada is famous for its passionate interest in purely GTA CFL match-ups?
The above calculation is hardly precise. But the general point is sound: how credible is it to keep explaining away Toronto's consistently high television ratings by always attributing the vast majority of their viewers to everyone except Torontonians themselves?
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