Soccer beats hockey in Canada? Last Friday’s FIFA World Cup match between Canada and Herzegovina, on linear channels alone, drew an overnight, estimated, average minute audience of close to 3.9 million viewers. Most watched on TSN (2,899,000), others on CTV (910,000). An unknown number streamed the game on Crave, so expect the combined-combined total to
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
I kid the folks at Rogers Sports and Media. That headline is just our little joke here at brioux.tv. Please don’t raise my cable bill. Still, if the last Canadian team left in the hunt for the Stanley Cup loses Game Five of the third round Friday night, Rogers-owned Sportsnet’s biggest draw will be gone.
Can the Montreal Canadiens ride a plucky rookie goalie all the way to the Stanley Cup final? First, Jakub Dobeš and his teammates will have to get past their NHL Eastern Conference Final opponent, the Carolina Hurricanes. Puck drops Thursday night at 8pm on CBC, Sportsnet and TVA and on TNT and truTV in the
The Montreal Canadiens — the one team remaining in the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs — continues to win over hockey fans from all across Canada. Take a look at the overnight estimated data from Game Four of the Canadiens 2nd Round series against the Buffalo Sabres (and their Canadian anthem-singing fans). That game on Tuesday,
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
With Joni Mitchell’s return to Canada the big draw, Sunday night’s 2026 Juno Awards played to an overnight, estimated average minute audience of 765,000 CBC viewers. The public broadcaster’s research department pegs that as up 11 per cent over 2025. Not bad considering multi-nominated Justin Bieber was a no-show. Sunday’s two-hour-plus music industry showcase also
The Super Bowl, held Feb. 8 in San Francisco, ranked as the second most-watched ever in America with an average minute audience of over 124.9 million viewers. How, you ask, did it do in Canada? In terms of same day estimates, and seen across Canada on a total of 31 CTV and TSN stations, the