Early on Wednesday, CBC issued a release declaring that they were Canada’s top choice for election news on Monday. Not so fast, says CTV. A spokesman for the private broadcaster messaged to says that CTV led election coverage for the night among conventional networks. CTV’s coverage, led by anchor Lisa LaFlamme (above) drew 1.1 million
…and not just because, had the Conservatives formed the next government, Erin O’Toole campaigned to defund the public broadcaster’s english TV appropriation. CBC put out a release early Wednesday declaring that they were “Canada’s top source for election news” during Monday evening’s election coverage, drawing more viewers on CBC’s main broadcast network and CBC News
Now that the Canadian federal election is over, how influential was the leader debates heading into the final vote? The total numbers are in, and over 2.5 million Canadians watched the English Leader’s Debate on CTV, CBC and Global on Thursday, Sept. 9. That’s according to the Live+7 ratings data released Tuesday by Numeris. The
After weeks of landing in the No. 2 or 3 spots on Numeris’ list of the Top 30 TV programs in English Canada, Private Eyes finished its summer run in the very top position. Close to 1.4 million Canadians said goodbye to Matt Shade and Angie Everett (Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson) on the final
What is vying with naming Mike Richards the new host of Jeopardy for Worst Call in Television for 2021? Global’s decision to announce, before it aired, that this would be the fifth and final season of Private Eyes. The Jason Priestley/Cindy Sampson Toronto-based detective drama has owned the summer of ’21, averaging over a million
The final week of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games dominated the English Canadian Top-30 weekly ratings, although it missed the No. 1 spot on the list due to a technicality. For some reason, Numeris measures the CTV Evening News from Monday to Friday only, and then breaks out the weekend edition of the same
In TV ratings totals, the first week of CBC’s Summer Olympic Games coverage took the gold medal in Numeris’ weekly Top-30 program rankings. In terms of average minute audience date, CBC’s week-long, prime time average of close to 1.4 million viewers included repeats of several medal-winning highlights. Thay included Maggie Mac Neil (pictured above) and
Despite the headwinds of the pandemic, the 13-hour time zone difference and so many other streaming options, CBC saw some solid and consistent returns from their coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The viewing high point came on August 6, Day 14 of the Games when, live at 10:47 a.m. ET, Julia Grosso’s