What will it take for Toronto to love the Argos?

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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.

but only?? it was 660,000 with no RDS, no ESPN counted. 660K on a friday night is very good. more than this watch but the way the ratings work with Numeris is that it is continuous viewers that account for the 660K. 175,000/660,000 = 27% in Ontario. For a later night game isn't that pretty good? Cox will always give the CFL a negative spin. here is TSN's take on things


Rights holder TSN posted a 12 per cent increase in their Week 1 viewership numbers over 2017, despite the fact the season has been moved up by a week. The 2018 campaign kicked off on June 14 while last year’s regular season began on June 22.

The most-watched game of the week was Friday’s contest between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Toronto Argonauts at Mosaic Stadium in Regina with an average audience of 660,500 English-language viewers. That was followed closely by the Calgary Stampeders’ game with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, which drew 651,700 on Saturday.

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Rights holder TSN posted a 12 per cent increase in their Week 1 viewership numbers over 2017, despite the fact the season has been moved up by a week. The 2018 campaign kicked off on June 14 while last year’s regular season began on June 22.

The most-watched game of the week was Friday’s contest between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Toronto Argonauts at Mosaic Stadium in Regina with an average audience of 660,500 English-language viewers. That was followed closely by the Calgary Stampeders’ game with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, which drew 651,700 on Saturday.

When I saw those numbers last week, I was surprised. I was not expecting them to be that good so early in the season. And coinciding with that, with the amount of cord cutting going on, those numbers were very encouraging.