The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum » Average of 3.5 Million Watch Grey Cup Yesterday

paterson1 · November 18, 2024 6:58 pm

Thanks to the broadcast on both TSN and CTV, early ratings for yesterday's Grey Cup show an increase of 19.9% in English Canada. Quebec was another story with viewers down significantly after last year, when the Montreal Alouettes were in the final. More complete ratings data will be available later in the week. A few surprising breakdowns from football yesterday and some NFL ratings from 3 Down Nation..https://3downnation.com/2024/11/18/111th-grey-cup-english-tv-ratings-spike-french-numbers-drop-with-argos-bombers-in-cfl-title-game/

Last edited by paterson1 (November 18, 2024 7:00 pm)

RadioQuiz · November 18, 2024 7:05 pm

Not even kidding. First I heard of it. I'm not sure how I missed it?

mace · November 18, 2024 7:57 pm

Had the Argos not been in the Grey Cup, I am sure those CTV Toronto numbers would be significantly lower. I know I wouldn't have been watching.

Stefanie · November 18, 2024 8:49 pm

RadioQuiz wrote:
Not even kidding. First I heard of it. I'm not sure how I missed it?

Duh!

cash · November 19, 2024 12:32 am

Number of people who mentioned the Argos today..........

0.0%

g121 · November 19, 2024 7:55 am

cash wrote:
Number of people who mentioned the Argos today..........

0.0%

Do you win a prize for continually trashing what other people like?

While not a classic, the Argo/Bomber Grey Cup game was an entertaining watch. I'm a regular CFL viewer.

BowmanvilleBob · November 19, 2024 8:55 am

A standing O at last night's Raptors game for the Argos as the Grey Cup makes an on-court appearance

mace · November 19, 2024 9:23 am

Chris Berman showed Grey Cup highlights at halftime of the Houston/Dallas MNF game.

Ale Ont · November 19, 2024 9:44 am

Berman has always done that during the Monday Night game.

cash · November 19, 2024 1:29 pm

g121 wrote:
cash wrote:
Number of people who mentioned the Argos today..........

0.0%
Do you win a prize for continually trashing what other people like?

While not a classic, the Argo/Bomber Grey Cup game was an entertaining watch. I'm a regular CFL viewer.

Are you at the huge Grey Cup celebration rally?

BowmanvilleBob · November 19, 2024 1:43 pm

cash wrote:
g121 wrote:
cash wrote:
Number of people who mentioned the Argos today..........

0.0%
Do you win a prize for continually trashing what other people like?

While not a classic, the Argo/Bomber Grey Cup game was an entertaining watch. I'm a regular CFL viewer.
Are you at the huge Grey Cup celebration rally?

Nope, but I am streaming it live on my phone, along with several thousand other people. I'm also listening and watching live reports from most of the major Toronto news outlets who had at or near the top of their newscasts at noon.

paterson1 · November 19, 2024 4:27 pm

Hopefully CTV will continue to carry CFL games next season on Saturday afternoons. Interesting according to the article that the Grey Cup game actually had more viewers in Toronto than the much hyped simsubed Buffalo- Kansas City matchup on TSN/CBS, about 24% more viewers. Now I am sure the Buffalo contest had the more coveted demographics, but it is still significant,

Nice that CTV News Channel, CP24 and CBC News Network made a big deal about the live ceremony at city hall this afternoon. CTV and CP24 have a vested interest of course, but good that there was decent coverage.

mace · November 20, 2024 10:06 am

South of the border, according to Sports Business Journal, the Chiefs/Bills game averaged 31.2M viewers. Excluding Thanksgiving and Christmas Day games, this is the most watched regular season NFL game since the 2007 week 9 game between the Tom Brady 8-0 New England Patriots and the 7-0 Peyton Manning Indianapolis Colts. [Brady won 24-20]

Calhame · November 20, 2024 10:34 am

Between mace and paterson1 the ratio is almost right on.

The population of the USA is approximately 10 times that of Canada so I would expect the 3.5 million stated by paterson1 should equate to 35 million in the USA which approximates the 31 million from mace

paterson1 · November 20, 2024 7:58 pm

A little more ratings information on Sunday's Grey Cup. Sports Illustrated reports that the total reach for the game was 9.9 million viewers. The half time show with the Jonas Brothers had 4.25 million watching on TSN/CTV and RDS. https://www.si.com/cfl/fannation/cfl-news/111th-grey-cup-continues-trend-of-strong-viewership-numbers

cash · November 17, 2025 12:38 am

No one mentioned this game to me today............no one.

mace · November 17, 2025 6:34 am

The advertised start to the game was 6pm. I knew that it would be at least 6:30 before the actual kickoff happened. Still wrong. The game didn't actually begin until almost 6:50. I didn't waste my time with any of the useless pregame crap and continued to watch two of the late NFL games. [KC/Denver, Seattle/LA Rams] Both finished with game ending FG's, one good and one miss. For the record, I also avoid the pregame stuff for the MLB, Stanley Cup and NFL Playoffs.

g121 · November 17, 2025 7:46 am

Not a classic but a fun, entertaining game. Too bad the Als QB Alexander was somewhat restricted by a not-100% hamstring. The Als goalline fumble with 3 minutes left was the killer. Roughie QB Harris had an excellent, mature game (23 of 27 passes for 302 yards).

As an Argo fan, I didn't have a dog in the fight but was pulling for the Roughriders as I really like A. J. Ouellette; he's a beast (so wish the Argos had kept him).

BowmanvilleBob · November 17, 2025 8:14 am

g121 wrote:
Not a classic but a fun, entertaining game. Too bad the Als QB Alexander was somewhat restricted by a not-100% hamstring. The Als goalline fumble with 3 minutes left was the killer. Roughie QB Harris had an excellent, mature game (23 of 27 passes for 302 yards).

As an Argo fan, I didn't have a dog in the fight but was pulling for the Roughriders as I really like A. J. Ouellette; he's a beast (so wish the Argos had kept him).

100% agree. Too bad the broadcast was plagued by frequent audio/video dropouts. Thanks CTV/TSN

paterson1 · November 17, 2025 11:10 am

Wasn't really into the Grey Cup this year for some reason. Maybe because the post season with the Jays was so incredible and exciting. Noticed the annoying technical flubs with the audio and video as BowmanvilleBob pointed out. I don't know if the power outage at the stadium around 4:30pm had anything to do with it. Halftime show wasn't bad, good audio.

Not a big football fan, hardly ever watch the NFL other than the Super Bowl. Unless Buffalo is in the final, likely won't watch much of that either.

For what it's worth, the Grey Cup was #1 on my "trending" feature during the game. CBC's Heartland bounced between #3 and #2 with NFL football from 7-8pm. Another NFL game coming in at #5.

Ratings will likely come out late today or tomorrow, I have a feeling they will be down.

maybo · November 17, 2025 3:58 pm

mace wrote:
The advertised start to the game was 6pm. I knew that it would be at least 6:30 before the actual kickoff happened. Still wrong. The game didn't actually begin until almost 6:50. I didn't waste my time with any of the useless pregame crap and continued to watch two of the late NFL games. [KC/Denver, Seattle/LA Rams] Both finished with game ending FG's, one good and one miss. For the record, I also avoid the pregame stuff for the MLB, Stanley Cup and NFL Playoffs.

Amen, Mace. I haven’t watched a second of pregame material in any sport in decades. Most of it is pure garbage, IMO. I time my watching to coincide with kickoffs, puck drop, first pitch, tip-off, etc.

Unfortunately, I missed the Grey Cup yesterday due to a broadcasting conflict.