Sochi Olympic TV ratings.

[hwy19man]

It has been fantastic to watch these Olympics, especially live regardless of what time certain events are on.

These numbers are just the total of viewers watching the CBC. The ratings are from just the first weekend of the Winter Games.

Opening Ceremony live on Friday----2,513,000 viewers
Grand total for live, repeats, and digital viewing----6,974,000

The ratings below include all regular and digital viewing.

Saturday afternoon competition----3,325,000
Sunday afternoon competition----2,635,000 to 2,640,000
Primetime repeat----1,415,000

"An afternoon replay drew 1,178,000 and the prime time package 2,385,000."

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/great-canadian-ratings-report-sochi-audiences-cbc-strong-161831704.html

http://www.brioux.tv/2014/02/sochi-o...lion-draw.html

[GirlySports]

this probably doesn't even including everything online or all those telus channels.

The best coverage

[Kelekin]

I'm a statistic :O for real this time.

[Voodooman]

I was out of the country all last week, and just turned on the CBC coverage today....and promptly turned it off as Ron MacLean was waxing poetic about who the Christ knows what. That 30 seconds made me wish that CTV/TSN had the rights again.

Now I'm watching a little curling with the horrible Joan whoever, and the worst curling commentator ever, Mike Harris. Again, TSN just makes them look like amateur hour.

CBC just butchers every sport they cover, (with the exception of HNIC montages). It's a real talent.

[PeteMoss]

The big gain out of this Olympics going to CBC is all of the online/mobile stuff. Bell/Rogers with all their cable/satellite money probably wouldn't have been so generous with the free online or mobile offerings. Now that its out there with this Olympics I don't think they'll be able to not offer it when they take them back.

[hwy19man]

Originally Posted by Voodooman

I was out of the country all last week, and just turned on the CBC coverage today....and promptly turned it off as Ron MacLean was waxing poetic about who the Christ knows what. That 30 seconds made me wish that CTV/TSN had the rights again.

Now I'm watching a little curling with the horrible Joan whoever, and the worst curling commentator ever, Mike Harris. Again, TSN just makes them look like amateur hour.

CBC just butchers every sport they cover, (with the exception of HNIC montages). It's a real talent.

Ron MacLean certainly goes overboard with his poetic stuff on HNIC too and it is tiring. Glenn Healy supposedly doing colour commentary is amateur.

The female curling analyst is Joan McCusker with Harris and Bruce Rainnie doing lead commentary.

The other Olympic hosts are David Amber, Andrew Chang, Andi Petrillo,Scott Russell, and Diana Swain. They do a very good job without the MacLean overboard commentary.

There were lots of negative things with CTV doing the winter and summer game in 2010 and 2012.

[Arsenal14]

Originally Posted by Voodooman

Now I'm watching a little curling with the horrible Joan whoever, and the worst curling commentator ever, Mike Harris. Again, TSN just makes them look like amateur hour.

Agreed. The only good thing is that after the first game Bruce Rainie (or whatever his name is) stopped talking so much and they adjusted his microphone levels so he isn't two octaves deeper than the other two. He's still no Vic Rauter though. Joan was driving me nuts all week with her rants about how unfair the playoff system is (completely ignoring the situation on the mens side where the top teams were pretty close to even) and Mike is very negative in general. There is nobody close to Russ Howard as a curling commentator, he just reads the game so well and can explain what he's seeing to the average viewer.

[Zarley]

I'm really impressed with CBC's coverage thus far. I thought CTV was good too, but CBC just does it a little better. I especially like the selection of former athletes they've got doing colour commentary - Helen Upperton has been fantastic on the sliding sports and Craig McMorris is great on snowboarding.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

The big gain out of this Olympics going to CBC is all of the online/mobile stuff. Bell/Rogers with all their cable/satellite money probably wouldn't have been so generous with the free online or mobile offerings. Now that its out there with this Olympics I don't think they'll be able to not offer it when they take them back.

Wasn't every event from London live streamed for free?

I remember watching random beach volleyball games in the middle of the night.

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by getbak

Wasn't every event from London live streamed for free?

I remember watching random beach volleyball games in the middle of the night.

It absolutely was. I think CBC's coverage has been a step back compared to what CTV provided for the 2010 & 2012 games.

[Kelekin]

Originally Posted by Zarley

I'm really impressed with CBC's coverage thus far. I thought CTV was good too, but CBC just does it a little better. I especially like the selection of former athletes they've got doing colour commentary - Helen Upperton has been fantastic on the sliding sports and Craig McMorris is great on snowboarding.

Helen Upperton has been amazing. Craig McMorris has been...alright. I like that he is excitable, he doesn't seem to know many adjectives though and he is also bad at math (kept saying 250 instead of 270, 430 instead of 450, etc). But he's also really young.

Curling and Figure Skating have been horrendous, though Mike Harris is the only one I can tolerate.

I will say, though, that I would rather listen to hours of terrible commentary than ever have to hear "I Believe" again in my life.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

It absolutely was. I think CBC's coverage has been a step back compared to what CTV provided for the 2010 & 2012 games.

Online I feel like CTV was a lot weaker than what CBC has shown so far. Not in terms of the amount of video, but the statistics that update on the fly are amazing.

[Daradon]

There's been some great viewing I will admit, and not just Canada stuff.

I didn't think I'd care too much about the Olyimpics this year, and I thought the time difference would really be a downer. But once I started watching them, it's hard not to feel the athletes passion.

[hwy19man]

Men's hockey
Russia vs USA----7,200,000
Canada vs Finland----12,000,000 it includes all english and french channels and online viewing.
Norway vs Canada----200,000 online viewers
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...0.html#more-id


Great ratings in the USA as 800,000 online viewers watched the Czech Republic-USA game.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...ticle17009800/

[OffsideSpecialist]

All these people watching the hockey but not other events have been missing out on some great action.

[sureLoss]

NBC says it had 2.1 million viewers watching it's online stream of the USA/Canada hockey game.

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by OffsideSpecialist

All these people watching the hockey but not other events have been missing out on some great action.

Even though overall I really enjoy CBC's coverage of the Games I found it kind of disappointing that they put all of the hockey games on the main network instead of TSN, especially the preliminary games.

A quote I read summarized it really well: "Olympic coverage shouldn't feel like a Hockey Night in Canada triple header with a little bit of SportsWeekend squeezed in between".

[Tsawwassen]

Originally Posted by craigwd

Even though overall I really enjoy CBC's coverage of the Games I found it kind of disappointing that they put all of the hockey games on the main network instead of TSN, especially the preliminary games.

The non-playoff games, TSN had 6 of them and TSN2 had 1 game. Sportsnet had some games too.

[PeteMoss]

https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/s...33092441305090

Woman's gold medal game draws 4.9 million viewers in the US. Most watched hockey games outside of Stanley cup since 2010 Olympics (not sure if he's missing winter classics here)

[Azure]

Nobody should dare to claim that the Olympics don't help grow the sport.

I wonder how many online viewers there were of games around the world.