Canadian Sports Ratings Update: February 25, 2013
Here are the latest sports ratings, including the Scotties and the first Jays game of the season. All numbers are BBM 2+ AMA.
Tournament of Hearts
ON-QC, Feb 19, TSN: 518, 000
ON-CAN, Feb 22, TSN: 596, 000
ON-MB, Feb 23, TSN: 822, 000
CAN-MB, Feb 24, TSN: 635, 000
BC-CAN, Feb 24, TSN2: 287, 000
ON-MB, Feb 24, TSN: 1.057 million
NHL
PIT-WPG, Feb 15, CBC: 772, 000
PHI-MTL, Feb 16, RDS: 912, 000
OTT-TOR, Feb 16, CBC: 2.248 million
VAN-CHI, Feb 19, SNP: 483, 000
LA-EDM, Feb 19, TSN: 506, 000
NASCAR
Daytona 500, Feb 24, TSN: 691, 000
MLB Spring Training
Jays Central, Feb 23, SN: 206, 000
TOR-DET, Feb 23, SN: 456, 000
NBA
LAL-BOS, Feb 7, TSN: 43, 000
CHI-DEN, Feb 7, TSN: 25, 000
LAC-TOR, Feb 8, TSN: 148, 000
TOR-NY, Feb 13, SN: 224, 000
MIA-OKC, Feb 14, TSN: 127, 000
Rookie Game, Feb 15, TSN: 64, 000
All-Star Game, Feb 17, TSN: 309, 000
MEM-TOR, Feb 20, SN: 164, 000
Thanks to: Jamie Campbell, Bill Brioux, Whitey Fisk, Bob Weeks
Those baseball numbers are incredible for spring training. 450, 000 would be good for a regular season game against Detroit on a Saturday afternoon. But what’s most amazing, the repeat of 1993 World Series game on Sunday afternoon scored around 150, 000. And we all thought the 200, 000 range was crazy for 20-year old hockey broadcasts on the CBC last fall.
The Scotties ratings are about consistent with 2012, drawing around 50, 000 more viewers this year.B
Written by canadiansportsmedia
25 February, 2013 at 10:57pm
Posted in Ratings
Tagged with CBC, daytona 500, HNIC, Jays, mlb spring training, nascar, nba, NHL, Sportsnet, tournament of hearts, tsn
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Would love to see the ratings that the Daytona 500 got in Canada…
Scott Nicholls
26 February, 2013 at 3:45pm
Got numbers for the Daytona 500 yet?
David Kirton
26 February, 2013 at 3:50pm
Daytona 500 average audience was 691, 000. Second highest ever.
canadiansportsmedia
27 February, 2013 at 6:16pm
Daytona 500 must have been viewed by less than the 2011 record audience of about 700K. If it was viewed by more than this you would expect a press release. I am surprised the record was not broken as it is not as if the race was against any major competition.
Sean
26 February, 2013 at 4:30pm
that is assuming there is nothing else to do but watch sports on tv
lo
26 February, 2013 at 11:20pm
True on the 1st part (and I’ve asked TSN about the ratings). 2nd part would depend on how you define major competition. Sure there was no hockey, but a curling game that almost got 300k on a digital channel is fairly major. And there was a WGC event on Global, but without Tiger or Rory it probably didn’t do any great numbers.
canadiansportsmedia
26 February, 2013 at 11:49pm
This may be a little off topic but, what ever happened to Eric Francis on CBC’s Hotstove? He used to be a panellist,. but I haven’t seen him at all during this season.
Viraj
26 February, 2013 at 11:17pm
HNIC seems to just be going with their regular studio guys now for the Hotstove segment (Stock, Weekes, Healy, and Friedman). In my opinion the Hotstove should be more for the insiders and journalists like Friedman and writers such as Francis. Having just the same studio analysts doesn’t really differentiate the segment much from the rest of the studio show now.
KGNKH1
27 February, 2013 at 5:54pm
I think I’d rather have Healy and Weekes over Francis. He wasn’t much of an insider either.
canadiansportsmedia
1 March, 2013 at 8:43pm
Do the CBC numbers include the Flyers @ Habs game too?
Solanges
1 March, 2013 at 6:31pm
Yes.
canadiansportsmedia
1 March, 2013 at 8:43pm