With lottery-lucky Toronto Maple Leafs sidelined throughout these NHL playoffs, Rogers-owned Sportsnet had just three of seven hometown Canadian teams to bank on in Round One of these Stanley Cup playoffs. Only one team, the Montreal Canadiens, advanced. (They open the second round against the Buffalo Sabres tonight at 7 p.m.) How much does Sportsnet
Thursday’s overnight estimates indicate that 4,472,000 Canadians watched Sportsnet National’s coverage of Canada’s overtime victory in the 4 Nations Face-off final. Add up all the digital windows and, according to Sportsnet, the big game was watched by an average-minute-audience of 5.7 million viewers, peaking at 7.3 million when Connor McDavid scored the overtime winner. Clearly,
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
Ratings for the second game of this spring’s Stanley Cup playoffs declined by more than half a million viewers from Game One. The overnight estimates from Monday, June 10, show that 1,594,000 viewers across Canada watched the Florida Panthers defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 on Sportsnet national. Another 1,O61,000 saw the game that same night
This week, Disney announced that their much anticipated new streaming service, Disney Plus, will launch in November in the United States. It’s priced to entice even the most ardent Netflix supporter, with the entire suite of Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN all bundled at US$12.99. Disney aims to be consumers’ top choice as viewers continue
I was in Sauble Beach that summer of ’88, looking up at a TV set with several friends watching Ben Johnson smash the 100-meter mark at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.Everybody in the room was standing and cheering after the race. The idea that Canada would win any gold medal at a
“I vill crush you like the pencil neck geeks you are!” BEVERLY HILLS, CA–And now a man who needs no introduction,” said ESPN vice president Connor Schell. “Do it anyway,” said Arnold Schwarzenegger.The former “Governator” was ESPN’s way of getting us to stick around to the very end of this summer’s TCA press tour. While