Tuesday’s semi final 4 Nations Face-off game between Canada and Finland drew an overnight, estimated audience of 2,202,000 on Sportsnet National. Canada won that game in a bit of a nail-biter at the end by a score of 5-3 to advance to tonight’s final against the United States. This audience for this game will easily
Global in Canada was a new network on the air about a year when, in 1975, it imported a little weekend show from NBC. Known back then as Saturday Night, it soon added Live and turned out to be one of the smartest buys the Canadian network has ever made. Five decades later, Global celebrated
Last Saturday’s fight-filled 4 Nation Face off tilt between Canada and the USA was a ratings winner on both sides of the border. After the anthem-booing was over last Saturday in Montreal, an overnight, estimated, 2,879,000 hockey fans ages 2+ watched the game on Sportsnet National+. The United States took the first head-to-head tilt between
It was a blowout, with the Philadelphia Eagles up over the Kansas City Chiefs 34 – 0 early in the third quarter. The Half Time show with Kendrick Lamar? Pretty much meh. The commercials? Not that great this year. Add it all up and is it any surprise that the Super Bowl audience in Canada
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards drew an overnight, estimated 1,416,000 viewers Sunday night on Citytv. That is down from the 1,760,000 who watched the Grammys live one year earlier on City. Keep in mind that with Live+7 and even 30 day playback and digital data, those totals will both swell much higher. Despite appearances from
What happens when you pick up your Rogers Ignite xfinity remote and give the command, “Flavour”? Up pops two links on your screen: one for CORUS’s rebranded Flavour Channel and the other for Rogers’ newly-acquired Food Network. Sneaky, huh? And, no, it doesn’t work the other way. Utter “Food Network” and all you get is
If only this was really the world. This was the view from our living room as the Games of the 2024 Olympics wrapped in Paris. The Olympic ideal seems so far removed from the fractured state of planet Earth, politically, environmentally and on so many other levels. Hats off to France and their Olympic organizers
While it wasn’t the happy ending many Canadians had hoped for, it certainly was a tremendous draw. Sportsnet claims that an average minute audience of 7.55 million Canadians ages two and up watched Monday’s seventh and final game of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs. They saw the Florida Panthers win their first ever NHL championship,