This week with CHML’s Scott Thompson, we get right to the main event, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.Scott has a complaint: how come the CTV feed doesn’t look as good as the images over at TSN? Hadn’t noticed that myself but maybe others have. Scott watches the Games on a non-high-def receiver, but the
NBC, like CTV, struck Olympic Gold with their coverage of Friday’s opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Games.According to fast affiliate Nielsen data, NBC scored 34.45 million viewers for their entire prime time coverage from 8 to 11 p.m. The NBC window on the games drew a peak audience of 38.04 million at 9 p.m.
Mixed reviews are coming in on Friday night’s three-plus hours Vancouver Olympic Games opening ceremonies. The Toronto Star had their theatre guy Richard Ouzounian review it and he ripped it like a bad opening on Broadway. “They eyes of the world were on us and we put them to sleep” was his lede. Then he
Tonight’s the night, Canada. CTV, Rogers and other members of the broadcast consortium will deliver the first made-in-Canada broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games, live from Vancouver.When I spoke with prime time host Brian Williams earlier this week, he said the facilities at the International Broadcast Centre are “jaw-dropping.” This from
I’ve been tricked into filing a weekly recap of the new Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains which will appear here each Friday morning. I’m the “Rudy” of a panel of experts who will also weigh in each week: Amber Dowling, editor of TV Guide Canada, Michael Bolen, who blogs about Survivor for The National Post at
CTV could score 10 million viewers Friday night with its coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Winter Games. Thanks to the new ratings ‘roids, these sports-mad Portable People Meters, and Sundays’ four hour Olympic Informercial-slash-Super Bowl broadcast–not to mention CTV’s nightly evening Olympic infomercials-slash-suppertime news hours, the Games are set to blow everything
While there was still plenty of Super Bowl stories to pick through–including a rehash of David Letterman’s Leno/Oprah airlift–this week’s radio chit-chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson eventually gets around to the Olympic Winter Games. As you may have heard, CTV is carrying the big show this year, starting Friday live from the Opening Ceremonies in
CTV’s four hour Olympic Infomercial Sunday night was the most-watched Olympic infomercial ever. The network issued a release Monday stating it was also Canada’s most-watched Super Bowl broadcast.Goosed to crazy new heights thanks to those ratings ‘roids, the new BBM Canada Portable People Meter data, CTV says an overnight, estimated 6,025,000 Canadians watched the network