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calgaryrocks · 01-26-2010, 04:16 PM

And this week's ratings winners: the NFL and, no kidding, bowling

You kind of expected that the NFL conference finals would draw some pretty big audiences, especially considering how the late game turned out. Overtime, even one in which a coin toss tends to decide the winner, is a pretty big attraction.
What you don't expect is that bowling would score a top-10 finish.
On the former, CTV scored audiences of more than 2 million for both NFL finals (2.6 and 2.3). For those keeping score, that trumped the CFL's divisional finals, which attracted 2 million for the Western game and 1.35 million for the Eastern blowout. It should be noted that the CFL games were on TSN, which has a smaller reach than CTV.
On the latter, huh? How did bowling draw a bigger audience on a Sunday afternoon than the Raptors did on Friday and Sunday nights? The only possible explanation is that people were channel surfing and came across the sight of a woman, Kelly Kulick, making history by beating the guys.
The other is that people found bowling so exciting, they couldn't turn off their sets. Nah, we'll go with the previous theory.
Here are the most-watched sports events in English Canada over the past weekend, according to BBM Canada ratings:
1. NFL, Vikings at Saints, Sunday, CTV: 2,605,000
2. NFL, Jets at Colts, Sunday, CTV: 2,326,000
3. NHL, Leafs at Panthers/Rangers at Canadiens, Saturday, CBC: 1,451,000
4. NHL, Blackhawks at Canucks, Saturday, CBC: 1,139,000
5. Curling, Grand Slam final, Sunday, CBC: 600,000
6. NHL, Hockey Night In Canada pre-game show, Saturday, CBC: 498,000
7. Curling, Grand slam quarterfinal, Saturday, CBC: 388,000
8. Bowling, PBA Tournament of Champions, Sunday, TSN: 373,000
9. Tennis, Australian Open, Saturday, TSN: 356,000
10. NFL, NFC pre-game show, Sunday, CTV: 322,000
11. NBA, Raptors at Bucks, Friday, TSN: 267,000
12. NFL, NFL Countdown, Sunday, TSN: 265,000
13. NBA, Lakers at Raptors, Sunday, Score: 256,000
14. Curling, M&M junior men's final, Sunday, TSN: 249,000
15. NHL, Penguins at Flyers, Sunday, TSN2: 193,000*
* Viewers on NBC not calculated

nice for the NFL to not really have to compete with anything in sports on sunday, and they get to be on ctv so people with only 3 channels can watch it

and bowling? really?

01-26-2010, 04:16 PM	#67
calgaryrocks Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Nov 2003 Exp:	And this week's ratings winners: the NFL and, no kidding, bowling You kind of expected that the NFL conference finals would draw some pretty big audiences, especially considering how the late game turned out. Overtime, even one in which a coin toss tends to decide the winner, is a pretty big attraction. What you don't expect is that bowling would score a top-10 finish. On the former, CTV scored audiences of more than 2 million for both NFL finals (2.6 and 2.3). For those keeping score, that trumped the CFL's divisional finals, which attracted 2 million for the Western game and 1.35 million for the Eastern blowout. It should be noted that the CFL games were on TSN, which has a smaller reach than CTV. On the latter, huh? How did bowling draw a bigger audience on a Sunday afternoon than the Raptors did on Friday and Sunday nights? The only possible explanation is that people were channel surfing and came across the sight of a woman, Kelly Kulick, making history by beating the guys. The other is that people found bowling so exciting, they couldn't turn off their sets. Nah, we'll go with the previous theory. Here are the most-watched sports events in English Canada over the past weekend, according to BBM Canada ratings: 1. NFL, Vikings at Saints, Sunday, CTV: 2,605,000 2. NFL, Jets at Colts, Sunday, CTV: 2,326,000 3. NHL, Leafs at Panthers/Rangers at Canadiens, Saturday, CBC: 1,451,000 4. NHL, Blackhawks at Canucks, Saturday, CBC: 1,139,000 5. Curling, Grand Slam final, Sunday, CBC: 600,000 6. NHL, Hockey Night In Canada pre-game show, Saturday, CBC: 498,000 7. Curling, Grand slam quarterfinal, Saturday, CBC: 388,000 8. Bowling, PBA Tournament of Champions, Sunday, TSN: 373,000 9. Tennis, Australian Open, Saturday, TSN: 356,000 10. NFL, NFC pre-game show, Sunday, CTV: 322,000 11. NBA, Raptors at Bucks, Friday, TSN: 267,000 12. NFL, NFL Countdown, Sunday, TSN: 265,000 13. NBA, Lakers at Raptors, Sunday, Score: 256,000 14. Curling, M&M junior men's final, Sunday, TSN: 249,000 15. NHL, Penguins at Flyers, Sunday, TSN2: 193,000* * Viewers on NBC not calculated nice for the NFL to not really have to compete with anything in sports on sunday, and they get to be on ctv so people with only 3 channels can watch it and bowling? really? __________________ GO FLAMES, STAMPEDERS, ROUGHNECKS, CALVARY, DAWGS and SURGE!