CFL to air some games on CTV in 2024

[Aerial]

@Charukfan

…ed by using certain codecs you can get all the benefits of ATSC 3.0 but keep the present ATSC 1.0 standard thus saving all the heavy cost involved in the new standard.You could have CBC, CTV, Global and SRC along with their subnets on one stick in major cities across the country as most have always hadThe signal is uncompressed so it would be better than cable/satellite and you could get 4k as well.

Although it can be a tad more complicated actually:

“Today’s TV audiences are often lumped into two independent categories: The traditional linear TV viewers and the streaming-focused cord-cutters and cord-nevers. But, in reality, the modern TV landscape is far more nuanced. New results from a Kantar survey, commissioned by Amazon Ads, of 1,000 U.S. participants shows that today’s viewers are flexible.1 Viewers today are willing to switch between traditional television and streaming services depending on convenience, price, and other factors when it comes to watching live programming.” …

Differences between vMVPD and MVPD viewers

[Charukfan]

I wonder how much promotion CFL will do and when it will begin

[mikem]

@Charukfan

I wonder how much promotion CFL will do and when it will begin

It will be CTV and TSN that will do the promotion, they are the ones that have to sell air time to advertisers.
The CFL will get their contracted $50 MILLION a year from CTV no matter how many people watch.

[Charukfan]

@mikem

It will be CTV and TSN that will do the promotion, they are the ones that have to sell air time to advertisers.
The CFL will get their contracted $50 MILLION a year from CTV no matter how many people watch.

Oops, typo, I did mean CTV. And to think I worked in promotions and traffic for a spell. Don’t get old

[mikem]

@Charukfan

Oops, typo, I did mean CTV. And to think I worked in promotions and traffic for a spell. Don’t get old

I think CTV/TSN was relieved when the playoffs switched to Saturday last season from Sunday. They can get their ad dollars from the NFL games on Sunday and now they get the Saturday ad revenue from the CFL playoffs on Saturday.

[Charukfan]

Any CTV watchers out there. Have they started doing any promotion of the games/first game yet?

[Paolo_X]

@Charukfan

Any CTV watchers out there. Have they started doing any promotion of the games/first game yet?

I noticed a promotion on TSN for the games on CTV during the game on Saturday last weekend.

[Charukfan]

Getting closer (the CFL on CTV).

We are seeing more and more articles about the diminishing of cable TV, (strangely juxtaposing the CFL’s increasing numbers). but people are turning off of cable in ever increasing numbers.

Is this the experiment to see if CFL can go back to network/OTA. Ironic that most people will view this game on cable TV but it will be higher quality OTA for me.

I also hope the excess of Ottawa games doesn’t turn people off, people obviously do want to see their own teams.

[mikem]

@Charukfan

I also hope the excess of Ottawa games doesn’t turn people off, people obviously do want to see their own teams.

But Ottawa isn’t playing themselves. People will be seeing their team if they are playing Ottawa.

[Charukfan]

@mikem

But Ottawa isn’t playing themselves. People will be seeing their team if they are playing Ottawa.

Yes, that is obvious but we’ll see Ottawa four times, Montreal, Regina and Winnipeg two times, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Hamilton once and won’t see BC at all. Over half the league will only be seen once or not at all in seven games (non playoff)

[EastVanMark]

@Charukfan

Yes, that is obvious but we’ll see Ottawa four times, Montreal, Regina and Winnipeg two times, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Hamilton once and won’t see BC at all. Over half the league will only be seen once or not at all in seven games (non playoff)

That’s an absolute disgrace

[Charukfan]

@EastVanMark

That’s an absolute disgrace

I wouldn’t say that as it likely wasn’t done on purpose. The football schedule was made long ago, I suppose it depends on when CTV knew they were going to air games, which would have been long before they announced they would.

[Charukfan]

The CFL on CTV

(1981-10-12) - Week 15 - Saskatchewan At Hamilton (CFL)

I’m diggin’ that Carling O’Keefe commercial

[mikem]

@Charukfan

Yes, that is obvious but we’ll see Ottawa four times, Montreal, Regina and Winnipeg two times, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Hamilton once and won’t see BC at all. Over half the league will only be seen once or not at all in seven games (non playoff)

The schedule was written last December. I doubt that people will be tuning in because it’s on CTV and they don’t have TSN.
If you are a CFL fan you subscribe to TSN or RDS
If you are a francophone in Quebec you won’t be watching CTV because the only region that gets CTV is the English region of Montreal.

All games are still on TSN so if you aren’t happy about BC games not on CTV you can still watch them on TSN or CFL+ with a VPN.
I don’t think the ratings will be any higher with the games on CTV

[Crash]

@mikem

…CTV and they don’t have TSN.If you are a CFL fan you subscribe to TSN or RDSIf you are a francophone in Quebec you won’t be watching CTV because the only region that gets CTV is the English region of Montreal.All games are still on TSN so if you aren’t happy about BC games not on CTV you can still watch them on TSN or CFL+ with a VPN.I don’t think the ratings will be any higher with the games on CTV

I don’t think tomorrows game is on TSN at all.

In fact the enhanced feed is on TSN+ but the normal game feed is on no TSN network.

[Charukfan]

I will be watching CTV because I don’t have TSN

CTV has always had a 20% larger reach than TSN. I think you can be a CFL fan without subscribing to TSN. You can follow the league legally by watching clips from the website or YouTube. You can follow illegally by one of the methods you mentioned.

Saturday afternoons and Ottawa games may not be an early recipe for success, but I did say that before and was proven wrong on one occasion.

If CTV has properly promoted the first game it should get a decent audience after that we shall see.

[Charukfan]

@mikem

All games are still on TSN

THE BIGGEST GAME ON THE BIGGEST STAGE: 111TH GREY CUP SET TO SHINE ON CTV
Seven fall regular season games and two Grey Cup Playoff matchups also headed to Canada’s No. 1 television brand

TORONTO (June 6, 2024) – The Canadian Football League (CFL) and Bell Media are proud to welcome the 111th Grey Cup on Sunday, November 17, to Canada’s most-watched conventional television network – CTV.

Saturday afternoon CFL contests will be broadcast exclusively on CTV with kickoff times shifting from 4 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.

[Cflbestfan]

Who is on the panel for CTV? Who is announcing?

[BomberJunkie]

So it looks like TSN will be shut out of almost a game a week for the rest of the season. I’m not so sure that was a wise move…

[AYC2112]

@Charukfan

…kip a game and Ottawa again. No other team has three games airing let alone four, and the Lions have none at all. Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary each have one while Winnipeg and Saskatchewan have two games in the schedule.Here’s the problem, for whatever reason, since returning to the league, Ottawa have been the worst team for TV ratings by far. Is this another evil Bell plot?

Could it be their awful lighting for night games?