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All Canadian teams are now eliminated from further Playoff play and it is an all American playoffs now...
How happy are the management/advertising execs at Sportsnet and CBC? One would believe that this will definitely affect viewership and overall interest in the quest for Lord Stanley's mug!
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"Canadian bassed teams..."
Ain't that the truth...fishing season is here...
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there have access to the ratings for last night's Leafs and Raptors games? I suspect the Leaf game outdrew the Raptor game by at least a 2 to 1 margin because it was a game 7 for the Leafs and only a clinching series game for the Raptors. The Raptors also turned the game into a blowout rather early. At the local pub watching the game, I noticed four screens had the Leaf game [with sound] and one small screen, normally reserved for CP24, had the Raptors.
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CBC, I'd wager, is indifferent, as Rogers gets all the revenue earned on games broadcast on its network.
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mace wrote:
Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there have access to the ratings for last night's Leafs and Raptors games? I suspect the Leaf game outdrew the Raptor game by at least a 2 to 1 margin because it was a game 7 for the Leafs and only a clinching series game for the Raptors. The Raptors also turned the game into a blowout rather early. At the local pub watching the game, I noticed four screens had the Leaf game [with sound] and one small screen, normally reserved for CP24, had the Raptors.
I was hoping to get them to tune into the PEI election returns, but to no avail.
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This will certainly give me more time to listen to WFIR Roanoke on 960 in the evenings.
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it's not this year's sales revenue that will be the biggest problem. in most cases, the buys have already been made for all 4 rounds... but imagine being the Rogers sales rep trying to build interest for next-year's playoffs. tanked ratings this year will limit the rate card for post-season 2020.
based on the performances by the leafs/jets/flames in April 2019, how much confidence will advertisers have in deep playoff buys a year from now?
splunge wrote:
it's not this year's sales revenue that will be the biggest problem. in most cases, the buys have already been made for all 4 rounds... but imagine being the Rogers sales rep trying to build interest for next-year's playoffs. tanked ratings this year will limit the rate card for post-season 2020.
based on the performances by the leafs/jets/flames in April 2019, how much confidence will advertisers have in deep playoff buys a year from now?
That's not entirely true. If the ratings fall too far in the next round big national advertisers will sometimes ask for bonus spots on other shows on other Rogers channels to make up the difference in lost viewership from hockey.
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The numbers are in and they're not good. When a show called "Mary's Kitchen Crush" on CTV outdraws a Stanley Cup playoff game on a weekend, it's a bad sign.
Rogers sings the Blues as hockey hits skids
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And with the Blue Jays sucking hind tit this year...
I just laughed out loud as I typed that...
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of fellows...