Ho Hum, Another Record TV Audience with overall 11.2M Total

I often record the Friday night games and avoid the media( aS I am working), and watch then late night. Sane with games that cross over the same time as church. Upon further research I can still record just not fast-forward. Or as the kids now say skip ahead

According to one article on Rogers' interest in MLSE, Rogers pays $800,000 per Leafs game. Ratings for CFL games are comparable to those of Leafs games, so if we could assume a comparable cost per game for the CFL, that would mean $57,600,000 per year for the CFL. The current deal is for $80,000,000 over 5 years, which works out to $16,000,000 per year. Something tells me they wouldn't actually get that, but it seems like they could shoot for a lot more than what they're getting now.

Ratings for CFL games are slightly higher than the average ratings for NHL games on TSN, but ratings for Leaf games are much higher. Some Leaf games sometimes get as many as 2M viewers, so I doubt the CFL games will fetch the same amount of money.

Whoops. I thought the just under 800,000 average viewers per game was for Leafs only, not NHL total. I thought the number I gave in the last post seemed too high.

Yeah, I would have thought that about the Leafs ratings. I guess that's one reason why TSN I noticed is locking up more Canadiens games, maybe for fear that Rogers might buy the Leafs. It will be a blow for TSN if they can't air Leaf games.

But a number of those games were Leafs.

I think that’s for games on CBC, which do on average draw more than CFL games (probably 1-1.2 million is my guess)
None the less even at a modest raise the CFL should be expecting nearly double what it’s getting a year 25-30 million is NOT unrealistic at all.

Agreed.
However I think the negotiations should start at a minimum $30M and hopefully increase substantially.

How much does frequency come into the equation for the value of a contract?

Yes the CFL might outdraw the NHL on TSN in a per game basis… but there are 77 televised CFL games per year. How many NHL games does TSN carry?

70 games. It’s essentially the very same. TSN also carries about 3-4 NHL games per week.
So it’s reasonable to compare apples to apples in this case.

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CFL compares favorably.

I believe the 2M number only applies to the Hockey Night in Canada numbers which routinely hit the top ten of weekly ratings. I’ve never seen TSN get a top thirty rating with it’s NHL property even with the Leafs.

So what are the numbers for the Grey Cup?

is this including playoffs?

if this is just reg.season then they compare, but the NHL playoffs provide TSN with almost daily games for 2.5 months.
CFL playoffs are 5 games total, including the grey cup.

this could be a factor in trying to get NHL-type money from TSN.

We can't get the sports ratings anymore, but here are the BBM ratings for the top English TV shows in Canada for the week of 22-28 Nov. The CFL kicked a$$
[url]http://www.bbm.ca/_documents/top_30_tv_programs_english/2010/nat11222010.pdf[/url]

That’s a good point and likely would factor. I believe the NHL on TSN deal includes the first 3 rounds of the playoffs and games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals. It’s a weird formula, but there’s certainly more NHL playoff games on TSN than CFL.

Did you miss my posting on Monday rp?

"Here are the numbers and despite all of the hype they appear somewhat less then anticipated and a shade lower then last year.
The only surprise was the RDS highest number ever at 1.1M.

http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=343429"

Thanks ArgoT, I did. I was travelling back home from Edmonton and completely missed that post.

By the way rp, I enjoyed your report from the GC.