The victory that put the Toronto Blue Jays into their first World Series in 32 years was also a big win for Sportnet. The Rogers’ specialty channel issued a release Tuesday claiming that the Game 7 victory over the Seattle Mariners was the most-watched Blue Jays game ever. The American League Championship clincher was watched
An overnight, estimated 4,385,000 Sportsnet National specialty viewers watched Sunday night’s game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners. The Jays’ 6-2 victory staved off elimination and forced tonight’s seventh and deciding game, which will also be played at the Rogers Cenre in Toronto. Sportsnet’s half-hour pre-game show drew an average minute audience
Win or lose on the field, the Toronto Blue Jays remain the only game in town in terms of live broadcast and specialty viewership across Canada. With numbers for Friday night’s Fifth Game of the series in Seatle still to come in, here is how the first four nights rated (all data measured in average
So…how are the Toronto Blue Jays doing in the ratings this post season? They are killing it. Not just smoking the Yankees in four; they are by far, not even close, the hottest show on Canadian television. UPDATE: With overnight numbers for Wednesday’s ALDS series winning victory still to come, here is how the Jays
CBC certainly let you know the 2025 Juno Awards were coming. There was host Michael Bublé, in countless promotion spots for well over a month, getting more air time than a Poilievre attack ad chiding Mark Carney for sneaking up on him in the polls. Sneaky! It had to help that the show, broadcast live
What hasn’t Ken Levine done? He’s an Emmy-winning screenwriter who has — with writing partner David Issacs — written for some of television’s best comedies. You may have heard of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Frasier. In his spare time (!) he has also been a disc jockey, a major league baseball play-by-play announcer, a cartoonist, a playwright, a director,
This past spring, the CBS action-drama Tracker became an instant hit, emerging as the No. 1 US network series of the season. On this episode, I speak with the tracker himself, Justin Hartley, who was in Toronto last June promoting the series at the CTV upfront. After a career in soaps (Passions; The Young and the
Evanka Osmak helps us keep score most nights along with Ken Reid at the Sportsnet Central desk. She’s taking her own shot now in the publishing world with her first novel, a cool book for kids ages 6-11 titled “Ali Hoops.” The PlumLeaf Press release, featuring illustrations by Megan Chew, is all about a young