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I am sure that there is no shortage of suckers who will pay to watch the latter event - it is on pay-per-view, correct? - and then will complain about it ad nauseam afterwards.

I just wanted to express my unhappiness again that Bell is simulcasting the NFL opener on TSN and CTV2 but that the Grey Cup can't even get that treatment. Not everyone has cable and the numbers that...

That has always been the concern I have had with this exclusive deal. Trying to divvy it up would cost the league money though.

I believe that you are correct, AV. Remember when Bell/TSN first took over exclusive coverage to CFL games back in 2008? The first move they made was to switch playoff games to Saturdays (save for...

Good point. The Thursday night summer games seem to be doing especially well on TSN. Last year's opener was a Thursday night game.

Arash is pretty far up the Jays' rear ends as the Rogers folks tend to be. I haven't read anything from him but he is probably bragging that the Jays are getting bigger numbers.

Steve might have mistaken the 2.9 million as the average audience vs. the number of unique viewers at any point in the game. I haven't seen the average audience figures yet but they would have been...

I seriously doubt that I have said that the season really starts after Labour Day as I abhor that thinking. What I have said repeatedly is that it is a long season which is why nobody should be...

I concur. You are talking about the 2011 season and the Argos started 1-6 IIRC and didn't get going until it was too late. In fact, the Argos were the best team in the East over the final month of...

Tonight's game in Ottawa was a terrific start to this week's games!

Argos beat the Lions handily just a few short weeks back.

Which other teams in this league this year are winning the majority of their home games? There is Calgary and ...? Ottawa was blown out at home by freaking Montreal the other night worse than the...

Speaking of Steve Simmons, I noticed that his son now works on air for the FAN 590. I wonder how much CFL talk he will engage in.

I believe that watching in bars has been counted in the same way as home viewers with the introduction of the portable people meters over the past decade or so. That makes the low Raptors ratings...

An interesting article from the Ottawa Citizen which discusses the Grey Cup being on cable only:...

I am not crazy about the Saturday game but, for what it's worth, the one time that we had a Friday night playoff game previously did work out well at both the gate and with the TV ratings (Hamilton...

Jim Lang was on Twitter Saturady saying that the CFL should have had their playoff games that day instead because there was no other competition. I pointed out to him that the CFL tried this in '08...

I remember reading in the Globe and Mail in 1983 that this was a problem in Toronto at that time. Can you imagine that? Bars in Toronto pirating Argos games?

The latest numbers are very interesting as the East numbers were strong while the West numbers were a bit weaker:...

Unfortunately, this is the Canadian way. How often have you heard someone denigrate a Canadian cultural product such as a movie by implying it wasn't any good or it won't be any good because it is...

It is a shame that the Grey Cup can't be moved to CTV while the NFL goes to TSN. I think that would be worth another half million viewers at least, especially with all of the promotion that CTV would...

I am not defending the status quo but I do think that there are some valid reasons why the ratings have declined this year at least. Having said this, I also agree that TSN needs to refresh their CFL...

These are my feelings too. I was surprised to see in Zelkovich's column that the Bombers are considered the #2 ratings driver behind the Riders. I have always been under the impression that the top 3...

CFL ratings were down 15% this season but it could have been worse. Zelkovich didn't even mention the Women's World Cup of Soccer which also went head-to-head with the CFL early in the season. I...

Exactly. I think that we just have to accept that the Argos will be even more "under the radar" than they usually are until the Jays' season is over which might not happen until early November. It...