Toronto, ON (November 8, 2010) – TSN continues to set new benchmarks for CFL television audiences with Saturday’s Saskatchewan-Edmonton game attracting an average audience of 1.35 million viewers – making it the most-watched regular season game in CFL history!
The record game cements the 2010 season as the most impressive regular season ever for the CFL in terms of television audiences. Audiences on TSN are up 35% compared to last season’s average audience. Highlighting the schedule were 14 games that recorded audiences of more than one million viewers.
The CFL ON TSN also saw significant growth in several key demographics with audience in the 18-34 demographic up 53% compared to last season!
The second point after the title says "CFL averaged more than 807,000 viewers on TSN throughout the 2010 regular season", so either you missed that or I'm not sure what you're asking for.
I’d like to know the average by team as well. And NO this is not about who is number, so relax Mr. America and Oilrocker. Just to show where the league needs the most work.
Great numbers. RDS is not included so Alouette games would be a lot higher stil!!
So apparently the CFL is on its death bed?
Anyways, big TV deal in a couple years.
These numbers speak to the good work done by TSN promoting the CFL, but as well to the popularity and passion the CFL enjoys in this country.
A little birdie has told me that because the numbers are so high that TSN is going to be airing at least two preseason games next year. The little birdie believes they will be Rider games.
Good news for the League for sure.
The bidding war better start at the end of next year at a minimum $25M per year.
Now if we can get Ottawa back and a new team in Moncton, this average will even increase more to well over 1M per game.
they need to try and get as much money as they can from TSN. for years the CFL has been jobbed by Newspapers out East, lack of quality coverage all year (CBC) and poor committment.
now the CFL has things in their control.. they need to get money from TSN!
then they can give the Players a nice big increase in Salaries, and not just by 200,000 but by a Million or so.
give the team some levy room to keep their good players and build up their teams!
I can see it now boys!! the CFL in 2016 will be flying high!, and people will be laughing and having fun!
the other thing the CFL could do with the increase, is increase their starting rosters from 42 to 46..
I’m pretty sure that part of the ratings increase is due to the “Personal People Meter” pager-like device they started using August 31, 2009 to track veiwership. That’s why there was a large bump last year, but only for the last half of the season. So this is the first full season that the PPM’s have been used.
I was going to mention that, so the 35% increase is probably a bit of an exaggeration. On the brighter side, though, according to Chris Zelkovich (who used to post the numbers on his blog), CFL got a bigger bump from the ppm system than most other sports did.