Now that Hell has frozen over and The Toronto Maple Leafs made in past The Tampa Bay Lightning in Round One, will Rogers finally see an enormous surge in Stanley Cup viewership? The fifth game in the tight series, a victory for Tampa that put a temporary chill in Leaf National parade route plans, drew
Fifty years ago this month, the Canada vs USSR eight game hockey tournament of 1972 galvanized the nation. One of the standouts for Team Canada was Montreal Canadiens defenseman Serge Savard. While TV ratings were an even more inexact science back then, it is estimated that 16 million Canadians, out of a nation of 22
No surprise as the Stanley Cup final round between the champion Colorado Avalanche and the Tampa Bay Lightning topped the weekly list of most-watched shows in Canada the week of June 20-26. The final four games averaged over two million viewers per game on Sportsnet and CBC combined. Here’s how the Top-10 played out on
Add the total audience watching two Stanley Cup final round games on Sportsnet National and on CBC; average them out and you get a little over 1.7 million hockey fans — the biggest Live+7 total 2+ audience in Canada the week of June 13-19 according to Numeris. Jeopardy! continues to draw, ranking eighth and 13th
Another Stanley Cup playoff run has come and gone. For me, however, nothing will ever top the drama and intensity of the 1972 Canada-U.S.S.R Hockey Summit Series. Fifty years later, Scott Morrison’s new bestseller brings it all back again. “1972: The Series That Changed Hockey Forever,” from Simon & Schuster, is the ultimate guide to
Geez, summer, eh? If you’re not streaming Prime Video’s new Canadian comedy original The Lake you’ve probably been outdoors and in one. If you’re still watching conventional network television, however, you’ve been watching two things: news and sports. CTV, for example, had three newscasts in the Top 10 June 6 to 12 led by top-rated
The the arrival of June and the end of the official TV season, ratings take their annual summer nap. With big imports such as Survivor and The Good Doctor resting until Fall, only three shows in English Canada cracked the million viewer mark the week of May 30-June 5 according to Numeris. Number One was
We here at brioux.tv have been suggesting for weeks now that the way data service Numeris lumps all of the NHL playoff coverage into one Top-30 weekly tally doesn’t really provide a true competitive picture. Comparing a one-hour simulcast of Survivor or The Good Doctor, for example, to a weekly, seven-night, multi-game, four-and-a-half-hour timeslot average