http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/nbcs...off-night.html
Always good news that Hockey is doing well in the states. While Canada's numbers may fall this year at least the Rogers deal is long term and I have no doubt Canada will bounce back.
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Despite significant sports competition out there, NBC’s NHL coverage across its channels is posting ratings gains. Earlier this week, NBC announced that its regular season-coverage on NBCSN (94 games) pulled in 378,000 viewers on average, the best numbers for a full season of hockey on cable in 22 years and a eight percent boost over last year’s 349,000. The 11 NHL on NBC games also rose, climbing six per cent year over year and pulling in 1.545 million viewers on average. As NBC announced in a series of tweets Thursday, too, the first night of the Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday drew record audiences:
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Best playoff start viewership ever as well.
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Last night’s Game 1 tripleheader on @NBCSN & @USA_Network produced BEST EVER NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Opening Night w 0.47 ON rating, up 15%
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