The closing week of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games impacted broadcast television viewership across English Canada. Not so much because Games coverage took over but because so many US procedural simulcasts were sidelined. Here is how the Top-10 TV shows performed the week of February 14 to 20 according to Numeris (average-minute-audience, 2+ totals): 9-1-1
“Doing better than we usually do,” is not the boast you used to hear from an Olympic broadcaster. The Beijing Games, however, presented all kinds of challenges this winter for both NBC in the States and CBC in Canada. (See photo above.) Still, CBC found several positives in the report they issued Tuesday after compiling
CBC’s coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics fell short of the Top-10 podium in English Canada the week the Games began. The public network’s primetime re-broadcast of the opening ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 4 drew an average minute audience of 970,000 total 2+ viewers according to Numeris for a 14th place finish. The next highest
Jimmy Kimmel asked his audience this question Tuesday night: Are you watching the Olympic Winter Games from Beijing? In the studio audience there were crickets. “The U.S.– we’ve won no gold medals so far,” he told his audience. “Canada has one. So worst comes to worst, we just go up there and take theirs.” By