Team Canada’s thrilling win over Slovakia last night peaked at 12.25 million viewers in the final minute when goaltender Roberto Luongo preserved the 3-2 victory by deflecting away a shot from his Vancouver Canucks teammate Pavol Demitra. Averaging 9.7 million viewers, the game becomes the third most-watched sporting event of Vancouver 2010, watched in some part by 20.5 million Canadians, or 61% of the population. More than 8.4 million viewers watched on CTV alone, while another 1.2 million watched on V/CPAC. With two days left to go before the end of the 2010 Winter Games, 98.8% of the country’s population – or 33,103,000 Canadians – have engaged with Vancouver 2010 coverage, according to Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium’s CUME index.
Day 15 Average Audiences
OLYMPIC MORNING / LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE 951,000
OLYMPIC DAYTIME / JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE 3 million
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME / JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE 7.7 million
Additional Day 15 Highlights – Television
– Once again, the Consortium’s full-day audience was more than 4 million viewers per average minute. Nearly 83% of the Canadian population watched Vancouver 2010 coverage yesterday on television, representing 27,763,000 viewers.
– 18.9 million Canadians sampled yesterday’s gold medal match in Women’s Curling, in which Canada’s Cheryl Bernard and her rink won silver. Watched on average by 6.8 million viewers (with 1.8 million viewers on TSN alone), overall coverage peaked at 11.3 million viewers.
– On Sportsnet, the Men’s 500m and Men’s 5000m Relay Short Track Speed Skating finals attracted more than two million viewers each. On RDS, 1.06 million watched the Ladies’ 1000m quarter-finals.
– On Day 15, OLYMPIC PRIME TIME reached a new record high, with 7.7 million viewers watching on average throughout the eight-hour program from 6 p.m.-2 a.m. ET.
– OLYMPIC MORNING has now reached more than 24 million viewers.
– JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE delivered 1.05 million viewers for V/CPAC, RDS and RIS Info Sports, while JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE was watched by 485,000 viewers.
Additional Day 15 Highlights – Online
– On Day 15, CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca again saw more than
2 million videos viewed on the sites.*
– For the fourth day in a row, there were more than 15 million page views (15.6 million) on the sites.
– Total page views for the Games now total 187.1 million.
– Top on demand videos for Day 15: #1 Women’s CAN/USA Gold Medal Game Highlights, #2 Women’s Hockey CAN/SWE Highlights (9th day in a row), #3 Bronze Medallist Joannie Rochette’s Free Skate, #4 Gold Medallist Yu-Na Kim’s Free Skate and #5 Joannie Rochette’s OLYMPIC MORNING Interview with Beverly Thomson.
– Concurrent video streams maxed at 88,781 during the Men’s Hockey CAN/SVK semifinal game.*
– Most-viewed athlete information on Day 15 was for Joannie Rochette. Canadian Curling Skip Cheryl Bernard is in the Top 5 for the 10th day in a row, followed by Men’s Skip Kevin Martin. Yu-Na Kim and Canadian snowboarder Kimiko Zakreski round out the Top 5.
Top Five Television Events – Day 15
Total Viewers Event Time (PT) Channels
1. 9.7 million Men’s Hockey: CAN/SVK 18:35 CTV, V/CPAC, OMNI.1, OMNI.2, OMNI AB, OMNI BC, APTN
2. 6.8 million Women’s Curling: CAN/SWE 15:06 CTV, V/CPAC, TSN, RDS
3. 3 million Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 500m Finals 19:17 Sportsnet, RDS
4. 2.54 million Short Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 1000m Quarter-finals 18:17 Sportsnet, RDS
5. 2.46 million Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 5000m Relay Finals 19:54 Sportsnet, RDS
