TV ratings

[Neely2005]

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...221855538.html

As far as raw numbers go, the CFL game won (517,000), baseball came second (465,000) and the NFL lagged far behind (105,000.) In reality, baseball took the night since most likely another army of Canadians watched on Fox, whose Canadian viewers aren't tracked. The NFL game, possibly the worst matchup of the season, was aired on Sportsnet360, a channel that viewers may have had to conduct forensic searches to find.


They've been doing well in the USA too. This was from the end of September:

The overnights are in, with the Sask vs Als drawing an excellent 818,000 (English audience only), while N.E. vs Atl did 509,000 (TSN/NBC).

The Saturday night Argos vs Esks did a surprising 821,000, going up against HNIC at 928,000 (Combined games). Great numbers again, even beating out the Blue Jays! (who are lucky to break 300,000 these days...much to the surprise of some Toronto sports writers)

Speaking of ESPN, the ratings are in for the Esks vs Bombers on ESPN2, which averaged 201,000 viewers (over 194 minutes). That's pretty darn good, especially going head-to-head against a live NCAA football game on ESPN.

Ratings for other U.S. cable sports programing being televised in that Friday night time slot:

MLB Tonight (live): 240,000 (MLB Network)
CFL Esks vs Bombers: 201,000 (ESPN2)
NFL Total Access: 167,000 (NFLN)
MLS (live): 131,000 (NBCSN)
WNBA playoffs (live): 89,000 (NBA TV)
UFC Tonight: 80,000 (FOXSNThe overnights are in, with the Sask vs Als drawing an excellent 818,000 (English audience only), while N.E. vs Atl did 509,000 (TSN/NBC).