This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to take one last look at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games. We talk viewing numbers, down compared to Vancouver, naturally, but up in digital. You can read more about that here in this Olympic ratings report I wrote for The Canadian Press.Scott wondered how CBC and NBC did
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson started off asking about the Olympic ratings. Specifically: how commissioner Gary Bettman can be threatening to yank the NHL out of the Olympics when hockey is gaining viewers in America.NBC reported Wednesday that the USA-Czech quarter final game was streamed by close to 800,000 viewers, the most-streamed Olympic sporting event
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson made the mistake of asking me about the 50th anniversary of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.So then I talk for 10 minutes, straight. I finally calm down and also yak about the Olympic coverage. You can listen to the entire podcast here.I was in New York for the anniversary and
The Death March with Cocktails known as the Winter gathering of the Television Critics Association press tour is just about at an end. Some folks have stayed an extra day or two to get their pictures taken with the Sesame Street gang, meet Bob Newhart, George Takei and other Pioneers of Television and visit the
This week, Scott Thompson from Hamilton’s CHML had a few questions about the TV coverage of the passing of Nelson Mandela. Scott asks where this ranks on the big TV event scale. I think we’re in such a temporal age that I doubt we’ll be talking much about Mandela once the usual 48- or 72-hour
I’ve been on the road and hard to reach but finally caught up this week with my old pal Scott Thompson from Hamilton’s News Talk Leader, CHML. He reached me in Vancouver while I was visiting the set of When Calls The Heart, a turn-of-the-century Mountie drama coming in late winter/early spring to Super Channel.Scott,
This week, on SiriusXM’s Canada Talks with Arlene Bynon (Channel 167), the two of us go over the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. The broadcast was a big hit, drawing 17.63 million overnight viewers on CBS. That makes it the most watched Emmy Awards Stateside since 2005.In Canada, the awards were up just slightly on CTV,
For the past month I’ve been joining Arlene Byson on SiriusXM’s “Canada Talks” for a weekly chat about what’s new in television. This Monday, Arlene (right) wondered if groundbreaking shows such as Breaking Bad are chipping away at broadcast network ratings.There is no doubt that Walter White and Company have had an impact. One look at