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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Don't overestimate the bandwagon fans. If the Jays revert back to their norm of mediocrity (always possible) it won't take long for the Blue Jays interest to erode back to what it was before.
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Except that 'what it was before' was still easily the most TV viewers for any MLB team. Though it can get a bit confusing since I believe Canada and the US track slightly differently. But, for the last year I could quickly get numbers for both, the 2013 Jays averaged 554,000 viewers for a last place team. The Yankees that year led the American heap with a little over 200,000 households.
Though the bandwagon effect last year was crazy. I can't find full numbers, but if you include playoffs, Rogers would have been close to 1 million per game (and well over 3 million for playoffs alone), and the Jays utterly crushed ratings for everything else - hockey, NFL, CFL, everything.