While the numbers are great, let's not get too smug. We were still skunked by soccer, a sport many us (myself included) tend to trivialize. Yes, it's World Cup - the crown jewel in CBC's summer lineup, played every 4 years etc. vs. just the start of another CFL season, but still.
What was particularly impressive though was the Sunday ratings for B.C. - Edmonton, only 13% lower than the much-hyped Grey Cup rematch on Friday Night Football.
I think it's also the fact CBC is network and tsn iz cable. I think the low jays rating is brutal... Especially since it was the Yankees. They are normally a large draw
It's not at all surprising that the World Cut dominated the ratings, given that it's the best players in the world and only seen once every four years. If you want to see how club soccer does in Canada on TV you only need to keep an eye out for Toronto FC's ratings.
Quoted for truth. You can't judge yourself against World Cup ratings. People who will not watch another soccer game for the next four years watch World Cup constantly.
Lets also not forget the gambling! Even I watched some soccer, although it was just to keep an eye on who I had in the pool… I am sure gambling has a lot to do with the ratings as well…
The Tor-Cal game didn't start until 10PM in the Toronto market, was pre-empted on the main channel by the great SSK-MTL game, didn't end until after 1AM, and was on a Thursday night with at least a decent number of people working the next day. Not surprising if you ask me - and still a fantastic # even when compared to last season.
Well it's great to see those ratings because nobody watched in the states.
Well the 58 000 who did were treated to a great game.
I bet the fact the deal was announced very lated had a lot to do with low ratings.
Hopefully they improve.
I read the article too. The CFL game only outdrew the Arena Football game by 5,000 viewers. With the late announcement, many had inaccurate program guides that did not even mention the game.
Why not. If ice dancing has good to great ratings for 64-96 games in bad timeslots, despite 90-100% of the games not having a 'home team/stars' to root for and has decent numbers for the reruns every night, there's an ice dancing team drawing sellout or near sellout crowds every week 18 times a year with more about to join, each ice dancing team is worth $35 million or more, investors lining up to bring ice dancing teams to their cities (some even simply using ice dancing to get them what they want .. like a stadium), hundreds of games televised from many ice dancing leagues around the world, foreign ice dancing teams come to visit and get big crowds despite the tickets costing an arm and a leg, have a channel that shows ice dancing 18+ hours a day etc. etc. etc. I too would see ice dancing having a great future.