The Rob Lowe firefighter drama 9-1-1: Lone Star continued to perform well across Canada this winter, topping all shows in terms of total audience ages 2+. Several other imported procedural dramas followed as schedules got more or less back to normal post-Olympics. Seven of the Top-10 were CTV shows, with Global claiming the other three
The closing week of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games impacted broadcast television viewership across English Canada. Not so much because Games coverage took over but because so many US procedural simulcasts were sidelined. Here is how the Top-10 TV shows performed the week of February 14 to 20 according to Numeris (average-minute-audience, 2+ totals): 9-1-1
“Doing better than we usually do,” is not the boast you used to hear from an Olympic broadcaster. The Beijing Games, however, presented all kinds of challenges this winter for both NBC in the States and CBC in Canada. (See photo above.) Still, CBC found several positives in the report they issued Tuesday after compiling
There was no surprise with Numeris’ weekly report of Top-30 TV shows in English Canada for the week of February 7 to 13: The Super Bowl was by far the biggest draw of the week, month and year. CTV drew a total audience of 7.225 million viewers for the telecast, with an additional 1.265 million
CBC’s coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics fell short of the Top-10 podium in English Canada the week the Games began. The public network’s primetime re-broadcast of the opening ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 4 drew an average minute audience of 970,000 total 2+ viewers according to Numeris for a 14th place finish. The next highest
A tight, exciting game capping one of the best NFL playoffs runs ever helped Super Bowl LVI reverse the downward ratings trend in recent years of TV’s biggest draws. In Canada, the 2022 Super Bowl, won in the dying minutes by the Los Angeles Rams over the Cincinnati Bengals, attracted an average audience of 8.1
On January 30th, more than two million Canadian viewers watched Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs go down to defeat at the hands of the Super Bowl bound Cincinnati Bengals. The NFL playoff game topped all other shows in English Canada the week of Jan. 24 to 30. Here is how the Top-10 performed
Hey Bills mafia — in case there was ever any doubt, there are a lot of Buffalo football fans in Canada. That heart-stopping finish between the Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, January 23 helped boost CTV’s NFL coverage to the No. 2 spot on the English Canadian Weekly Top-30. According to data