– TSN celebrates the past year with a record Grey Cup, large audiences and growth across all business platforms –
– TSN is the #1 specialty channel in Canada across
all key male and female demographics –
TORONTO (December 23, 2009) – 2009 has been one of the most successful and significant years in TSN’s history. In addition to achieving record television audiences for its key broadcast properties, TSN saw significant growth across all of its business platforms.
With multi-year agreements in place with all of its major partners, TSN will continue to be at the forefront of every major sporting event in 2010 including delivering extensive coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games from February 12 to 28. Read more…
– Grey Cup Weekend and big NHL and NFL games highlight impressive stretch –
Toronto, ON (December 4, 2009) – TSN has capped off an outstanding four day stretch. With its packed-schedule of marquee events between November 28 and December 1, TSN saw its average 24-hour audience almost double compared to its season average. According to preliminary data from BBM Canada, TSN was the second most-watched network in all of Canada – just behind CTV– from Saturday to Tuesday.
TSN’s overall audience between November 28 and December 1 was 20% higher than Global’s average audience and 31% higher than CBC’s average audience.
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–2009 GREY CUP is the most-watched program on Canadian television this year –
– TSN sets a network audience record with 5.087 million viewers for classic game –
– 1.009 million viewers watch the Alouettes win on RDS –
Toronto, ON (November 30, 2009) – It was a GREY CUP classic and now it’s a GREY CUP record. More Canadians watched the GREY CUP last night on TSN and RDS than ever before. Preliminary overnight data from BBM Canada confirms that 6.1 million viewers watched last night’s thrilling CFL championship game – making it the most-watched GREY CUP ever* as well as the most-watched telecast of the year in Canada**.
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– Fans will be able to download and watch the entire 2009 GREY CUP on their computer, iPod, iPhone and on Apple TV –
For the first time ever, CFL fans across Canada will have the chance to own the Grey Cup. TSN today announced that the 2009 GREY CUP broadcast will be made available from the iTunes Store in Canada, giving fans the opportunity to relive all the action from Sunday’s big game anytime they want. TSN’s 2009 GREY CUP broadcast will be available in the iTunes Store (www.itunes.ca) for downloading to a Mac or PC, iPod with video, iPhone or a television with Apple TV.
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3,650,000 – # of viewers for the 2008 Grey Cup on TSN and RDS
1,050 – Combined weight in pounds of the CFL on TSN panel
250 – Estimated # of watermelon helmets TSN will show on air during its two day Grey Cup coverage
150 – # of technical and production staff working on TSN’s Grey Cup broadcast
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