4.17million viewer on average watched Sunday Jays playoff game

[Mikeleelop]

that's average!!

 

over 9.4million watched at one point or another

 

Come on Rogers, open up the chequebook and sign a couple starters for 2016

[Stangstag]

Plz Shapiro, DO NOT sign Price for 200 million

[Trouba95]

We'll sign Zimmer and Heyward. Trade for another stud starter. Edited October 13, 2015 by Trouba95

[HERPDERP]

Sell the farm for Carrasco please

[eastcoastjaysfan]

These are insane numbers. Absolutely mind blowing. This has to be one of the highest watched Canadian program of alltime?

[eastcoastjaysfan]

So according to Wiki... Keeps this in perspective. Still amazing numbers though.

 

Canada[edit]

The most watched television broadcast in Canadian history was the Gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics, played between the United States and Canada at General Motors Place (renamed "Canada Hockey Place" for the Olympics) in Vancouver. A confirmed 16.6 million Canadians watched the whole game, roughly one-half of the country's entire population.[35] A groundbreaking 26.5 million Canadians watched some part of the game, over 80 percent of the country's 34-million-person population.[36] According to multiple sources, 13.3 million Canadians watched the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, which was the previous record.[37]

 

Many believed the final game of the 1972 Summit Series had up to 18 million viewers, but this was not so; only 4.3 million people watched it. 10.3 million people watched the ice hockey gold medal final of the 2002 Winter Olympics.[38]

[Cyborg]

I'm sure yesterday was even more, being Thanksgiving and all and a day game.

[Sammy225]

These are insane numbers. Absolutely mind blowing. This has to be one of the highest watched Canadian program of alltime?

 

Would love to see what it would be if the game was not in the afternoon on Wednesday

[Laika]

Imagine a game 7 of the World Series...

[eastcoastjaysfan]

These are definitely the types of numbers that would motivate Rogers to open the chequebook during the offseason though.

 

I can't even imagine how much more they're bringing in via ad revenue.

[GreekFatAss]

That is a $160 million payroll territory right there.

[Krylian]

that's average!!

 

over 9.4million watched at one point or another

 

Come on Rogers, open up the chequebook and sign a couple starters for 2016

 

They'll definitely sign a couple of starters with Price, Buehrle, and Estrada all FA's... And Dickey with an option.

[Krylian]

The payroll won't be much different.

 

Is anyone factoring the Canadian dollar into this?

[Jonn]

A team that makes the playoffs yearly would bring the 4m fans a year at the dome. Nothing about these tv ratings surprise me. Its still impressive Ofcourse

[Grant77]

Anyone have US ratings for any of the series for comparison? They have 10x the population, but I bet the ratings won't reflect that.

[Dylan]

wow, those are great stats! .. too bad tomorrow's game isn't at 7

[Nafro]

There were 4 Americans who watched the game. 3 of the 4 believe Canadians live in igloos, and the reason we can't catch...is because we have seal flippers for hands. (Of note though it explains why the cheering at the RC is so loud!)

[John_Havok]

Anyone have US ratings for any of the series for comparison? They have 10x the population, but I bet the ratings won't reflect that.

 

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/10/13/cable-weekly-top-25-the-walking-dead-is-no-1-for-oct-5-11-2015-ahs-hotel-opens-well/478339/

 

They just break down the 18-49 adults demographic so it's not quite apples to apples gsince we don't know what demographic the 4.17 million was.... but still.

 

The numbers up ere right now are amazing

[Grant77]

"The Cubs/Cardinals game averaged 5,376,000 viewers, with a peak of seven million total from 9:00-9:15 PM.

 

The Mets/Dodgers game averaged 4.7 million viewers, peaking at 5.1 million total from 10:30-10:45 p.m."

[Laika]

Anyone have US ratings for any of the series for comparison? They have 10x the population, but I bet the ratings won't reflect that.

 

The Blue Jays national TV market would be bigger than any other team's TV market, so the necessarily really fair comparison would be the nationally televised games, if you want to point to the US' entire population size.

 

This Wiki article (link) has all the World Series ratings.

 

In recent years your looking at 10-16 million average viewers per game, and over 20 million average if it's a game 7.

 

So Canada seems more than twice as baseball hungry right now as the US in general.

 

Another decent comp would be the wild card games, because they were nationally televised and the Yankees were in one of them. I found this:

 

NEW YORK -- With the Yankees playing, baseball's wild-card game has drawn its largest television audience in its short history.

 

The Houston Astros' 3-0 win over New York in the American League wild-card game Tuesday night on ESPN averaged more than 7.6 million viewers.

 

The network said Wednesday that's up 36 percent from the 5.6 million for last year's National League game between the Giants and Pirates on ESPN, which was the previous high. It's up 46 percent from the 5.2 million for the 2014 AL game between small-market Kansas City and Oakland on TBS.

[Laika]

I think with baseball you get a lot of viewers that top watching when their team is out of it. It's not quite like football where people watch the Super Bowl no matter what.

[leaffie]

There were 4 Americans who watched the game. 3 of the 4 believe Canadians live in igloos, and the reason we can't catch...is because we have seal flippers for hands. (Of note though it explains why the cheering at the RC is so loud!)

 

Now that was funny!!!!!!! Laugh of the day.

[Nafro]

"The Cubs/Cardinals game averaged 5,376,000 viewers, with a peak of seven million total from 9:00-9:15 PM.

 

The Mets/Dodgers game averaged 4.7 million viewers, peaking at 5.1 million total from 10:30-10:45 p.m."

 

Wow so the amount of Canadian viewers is comparable to a game involving Chicago/St. Louis and New York/Los Angeles. That is incredible!

[43211234]

Anyone have any details on Sportsnet's postseason broadcast deals? Do they pay a flat fee to play the broadcast and get all ad revenue they produce? Or maybe fox/tbs/ESPN gets a portion of the revenue?

[RealAccountant]

How do these numbers compare to the leafs 2013 numbers

[Abomination]

Anyone have any details on Sportsnet's postseason broadcast deals? Do they pay a flat fee to play the broadcast and get all ad revenue they produce? Or maybe fox/tbs/ESPN gets a portion of the revenue?

 

I looked for that, but wasn't able to find anything. I'm curious too.

[John_Havok]

Anyone have any details on Sportsnet's postseason broadcast deals? Do they pay a flat fee to play the broadcast and get all ad revenue they produce? Or maybe fox/tbs/ESPN gets a portion of the revenue?

 

Purely a guess on my part, but I would suspect that the broadcast rights holder should receive a flat fee for the broadcast(likely very inflated for the post season) but all ad revenue on the sportsnet channel should remain with sportsnet since they are the channel that purchased the rights to the brodacst in Canada.

[500LevelSTH]

Sportsnet broadcast deal is for Jays, all postseason, MLB network and MLB.tv. TSN has a national package of Sunday games and select midweek games.

 

Basically, the higher the ratings, for the entire post season broadcasts in canada, jays and non jays games, means Sportsnet will have to cut its US partners a larger cheque once the longterm agreement they have expires and they renegotiate

[intentional wok]

There were 4 Americans who watched the game. 3 of the 4 believe Canadians live in igloos, and the reason we can't catch...is because we have seal flippers for hands. (Of note though it explains why the cheering at the RC is so loud!)

 

Me, IRL:

 

http://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M8d048d652b12b00f54060eccf9dd2a1eo0&pid=15.1

 

(from L to R: me, my sister, my cousin)

[TheHurl]

So the Jays are now drawing what Big Bang Theory did in it's 2014 heyday