Did Canadian hockey fans stop watching the Stanley Cup playoffs with the elimination of the last remaining Canadian team at the end of the Third Round? That would be a resounding yes/oui. In Game 1 of the finals, played on Tuesday, June 2, the game between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes drew
This week on brioux.tv: the podcast, please welcome a veteran sports reporter and host who, in my opinion, has been better on his feet and in the moment than anybody else in a rink or on a field. I’m talking of course about Scott Oake, who recently announced his retirement from Sportsnet and Hockey Night in
That final game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers had it all — bunts, a near brawl and a broken bat. Everything but a win for Toronto — althought it was a huge win for Rogers Sports and Media. The overnight estimate of the combined Sportsnet and Citytv audience who watched
After 31 years as host of The Fifth Estate, plus another decade winning Emmys for CBS and NBC News, award-winning investigative journalist Bob McKeown is ready to retire. The Ottawa native never shied away from his assignments, especially when it came to reporting on football and head injuries. Back in the ’70s, he was a CFL
After a week off, the Aug. 9 episode of The Amazing Race Canada put that series back on top of the weekly Numeris Top-30 with over 1.6 million total viewers. The episode, which took place mainly in Alberta and British Columbia, featured kite gliding, skeet shooting and skiing. Also among the most-watched shows of the
The Amazing Race Canada was solidly in first place again as Canada’s most-watched broadcast network series the week of July 11-17. It was one of several reality competition series in Numeris’s weekly Top-30 tally of Canadians ages 2+ as calculated over Live+7 day viewing. Citytv’s simulcast of America’s Got Talent and two episodes of Big
For the second week in a row, the french language, Quebec version of The Masked Singer, Chanteurs masqués, was the most-watchd TV show in all of Canada. With 1,978,000 viewers ages two-and-up watching the season finale on TVA in Quebec alone, it outdrew everything in English Canada November 22-28 in total, Live+7 viewing, according to
These are transitional times in the broadcasting business. Things can get very bottom line quickly when ad revenues bottom out. I get it, therefore, when releases are sent signaling the end of an association with a broadcaster who has enjoyed a nice, long career. What I don’t get, lately, is that these folks don’t get