Quote Originally Posted by Shatto View Post
The success of Premier League TV ratings is both a blessing and a curse for the MLS. On one hand as TV audiences for the Premiere League grow, it might encourage some to try watching MLS broadcasts. But it also has the disadvantage that, as a number of my friends have stated "why watch MLS when I can watch real football"

It will be interesting to follow the progress of the TV ratings of MLS over the next few years. If the numbers start to climb in a significant way, we could see MLS becoming an attractive product for the networks. However, if TV numbers continue to languish with comparatively poor numbers, the networks might decide it isn't worth the expense.
But TFC fans are mainly the young millenials that don't watch a lot of sport on TV, they are streaming on their Iphones and Laptops.
One in four subscribers in this country are cutting the cord and not watching cable/satellite. The future of sports is "streaming" not TV.

As for CFL TV ratings, according to the Damien Cox article in the Star this week, there were over 600k viewers for the Argo/Rider game but only 175,000 viewers in Ontario. Obviously Western viewers are driving the TV ratings. No breakdown of how many of the 175,000 Ontario viewers were in Toronto.