The regular season TV ratings were up this season and the playoffs very high ratings. 2.3 Million Canadians watched the KC/New England game.
https://3downnation.com/2019/01/23/i...ough-the-roof/
The regular season TV ratings were up this season and the playoffs very high ratings. 2.3 Million Canadians watched the KC/New England game.
https://3downnation.com/2019/01/23/i...ough-the-roof/
The 2018 NFL season has beat the 2018 CFL season in terms of overall entertainment IMO. The NFL will always have duds but it's hard to really compare 9 teams with 32.
That's one of the biggest (and least surmountable) problems the CFL faces IMO. Every other major league in the world has 20 or more teams, which means lots of variety in matchups. The CFL can get a bit stale when the same team is on Thursday or Friday Night football several weeks in a row. If all (or at least seven or eight) teams were entertaining (as has been the case at times in the past), it wouldn't matter as much. But when there are two or three bad or uninspiring teams, a lot of games are not very enticing to tune into.
Year of the Rocket: John Candy, Wayne Gretzky, a Crooked Tycoon, and the Craziest Season in Football History (https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/pro...of-the-rocket/)
Bouncing Back: From National Joke to Grey Cup Champs (https://bit.ly/3fvip5x)
YOTR YouTube https://bit.ly/37jtG4f
BB YouTube https://bit.ly/2TSYPs7
I see slimjim/jayahre/Flutie/countless other usernames has returned yet again.
It's time the main network (CTV) started to carry games or this a battle the CFL will always lose.
We'd all like that, but I don't see it. Unless another network(s) can guarantee every regular season and playoff game is televised without a reduction in rights fees, the CFL will be exclusively on TSN indefinitely.
Also noteworthy that there are no Sunday CFL regular season games opposite the NFL in 2019. I bet this was requested by CTV/Bell. They don't want anything to cut into their NFL cash cow.
I also blame Trump. The more he criticizes the NFL, the bigger it gets.
I think we need to accept that the CFL is not going back to a conventional broadcaster for any significant number of games. CBC is largely out of sports production, Global was never in it, and CTV clearly isn't going to change its current (highly successful) business model in the foreseeable future. It's slightly conceivable that a second player could come in next time, but it would likely be a cablenet (Sportsnet) and would likely have only a small package of games. I'd say there's no chance of Sportsnet trying to outbid TSN for the full, or majority, rights. Sportsnet has all the live-sports inventory it needs between Jays, hockey and half a share of the Raptors. There's no room there for more than a single CFL game each week (which would be great, but would likely dilute how much TSN is willing to pay for rights).
Year of the Rocket: John Candy, Wayne Gretzky, a Crooked Tycoon, and the Craziest Season in Football History (https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/pro...of-the-rocket/)
Bouncing Back: From National Joke to Grey Cup Champs (https://bit.ly/3fvip5x)
YOTR YouTube https://bit.ly/37jtG4f
BB YouTube https://bit.ly/2TSYPs7
These No Funners numbers are insignificant to me especially as CTV and TSN promoted the crap out of them and the simulcast on so many stations.
If our league had 50% of the promotion and not to mention the main CTV network and the obnoxious over the top hours of pre game, we would once again dominate the NFL in viewership.
How sad this is our country and our own network has sold out the tradition.
Cameron Dukes + Dan Adeboboye + Kevin Mital + David Ungerer + Damonte Coxie + DaVaris Daniels + Dejon Brissett = Unstoppable Force
Whether or not a troll started this thread, it's a worthy topic.
One of the main reasons Ambrosie was hired was to chase down new revenue streams, but maybe we should be careful what we wish for. If, in some alternate universe, the CFL had one of those multi-billion dollar TV contracts that every sport league chases, imagine how much tickets would cost. I would be watching every game on TV. I've been to one Leafs game in 15 years, and that was only because I got free tickets.
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