Weekly Top 30 TV Programs, January 14-20

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of January 14 to January 20:

Overnights: Sunday, Monday; NFL AFC, NFC drop 16%,10%

Overnight ratings for Sunday and Monday TV shows, courtesy of Bill Brioux:

Sunday

Program	Network	Viewers
NFL Playoffs: AFC Baltimore – New England	CTV	1,985,000
NFL Playoffs: NFC San Francisco – Atlanta	CTV	1,838,000
Dragons' Den	CBC	1,346,000
Heartland	CBC	869,000
Republic of Doyle	CBC	753,000

Sportsnet nets huge numbers in first post-lockout NHL broadcasts

While Hockey Night in Canada broke audience records for their Saturday afternoon and prime east games, hockey fans also tuned to Sportsnet to watch regional broadcasts of their favourite teams on Sunday and Monday. In doing so, a viewership record was broken for a Leafs game on the Rogers-owned sports channel. Here are the audience numbers for the Sunday games from the Sportsnet press release:

Sunday, Jan. 20

·         San Jose Sharks @ Calgary Flames on Sportsnet West at 4 p.m. MT: attracted an average audience of 296,000 viewers, marking a 120% increase from the Calgary Flames vs. St. Louis Blues broadcast on Sportsnet West on Oct. 10, 2011 (134,000 viewers).

·         Edmonton Oilers @ Vancouver Canucks on Sportsnet West at 7 p.m. MT: attracted an average audience of 386,000 viewers, marking an increase of 24% from the Edmonton Oilers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins broadcast on Oct. 9, 2011 (310,000 viewers). This was the third most-watched Oilers game of all-time on Sportsnet West.

·         Edmonton Oilers @ Vancouver Canucks on Sportsnet Pacific at 6 p.m. PT: attracted an average audience of 623,000 viewers, marking an increase of 32% from the Canucks vs. Columbus Blue Jackets broadcast on Oct. 10, 2011 (473,000 viewers). This was the fifth most-watched Canucks game of all-time on Sportsnet Pacific.

NHL returns, Hockey Night sees record audiences

Turns out NHL fans forgot that they had a plan to boycott NHL games on TV. Fans returned in huge numbers while breaking audience records for Hockey Night in Canada's afternoon and East games. And CBC exhales. The Globe and Mail reports:

The Saturday afternoon matchup between the Ottawa Senators and Winnipeg Jets grabbed 1,930,000 viewers (aged 2+) on average, up 36 per cent from the previous record of 1,094,000 (set on Feb. 11, 2011). Citing data from the TV ratings service BBM Canada, CBC said the figure represented a 156 per cent rise from the same weekend last year, when a mid-season game pulled in only 588,000.

Oprah interview with Lance Armstrong watched by 715,000 on OWN Canada

Oprah's interview, part one, with Lance Armstrong aired Thursday on OWN Canada and it was the "highest rated English language cable show" in our country. From The Hollywood Reporter:

The Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive interview peaked at 838,000 total viewers during the 90-minute broadcast, according to BBM Canada data, with the average audience coming in at 715,000 total viewers.

That made the Armstrong interview the highest-rated show Thursday across all Canadian English-language cable networks for adults and women in the 25-to-54 demo.

A large audience for a specialty channel and an apparent success for OWN Canada considering their difficulty in expanding viewership.

Weekly Top 30 TV Shows, January 7 - 13

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of January 7 to January 13:

Notes: The “+/-” is calculated as the difference in viewers from the the previous week to the current week. The “% ∆” is calculated as the percentage change in the number of viewers between the two weeks.

Notes from BBM Canada: "This chart shows the Top 30 TV programs for all national networks and Canadian English specialty networks for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their AMA...The chart also indicates the broadcast outlet on which the program aired and the program’s start and end time (shown in Eastern Time)." Demographic: All Persons 2+.


Dragons' Den and Shark Tank were virtually tied this week.

CSI gained 33% more viewers that week, while audiences of Dragons' Den and Once Upon A Time decreased by 23% and 21% respectively.

Weekly Top 30 TV Shows, December 31 - January 6

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of December 31 to January 6:

  

Notes: Viewership is the average minute audience.

Notes from BBM Canada: "This chart shows the Top 30 TV programs for all national networks and Canadian English specialty networks for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their AMA...The chart also indicates the broadcast outlet on which the program aired and the program’s start and end time (shown in Eastern Time)." Demographic: All Persons 2+.

Overnights (January 11-15), Golden Globes Most Watched Ever

UPDATE: Included Tuesday's overnight ratings.

Some recent overnight ratings including the Golden Globes were tweeted by Bill Brioux and Richard Koo:

Program	Network	Day	Viewers
Marketplace	CBC	Friday	1,047,000
Golden Globes	CTV	Sunday	3,409,000
Dragons' Den	CBC	Sunday	1,256,000
Republic of Doyle	CBC	Sunday	720,000
Heartland	CBC	Sunday	943,000
The Simpsons	Global	Sunday	1,004,000
Murdoch Mysteries	CBC	Monday	969,000
Mr. D	CBC	Monday	579,000
The Ron James Show	CBC	Monday	490,000
Rick Mercer Report	CBC	Tuesday	975,000
This Hour Has 22 Minutes	CBC	Tuesday	822,000
Cracked	CBC	Tuesday	552,000
NCIS	Global	Tuesday	2,450,000
NCIS LA	Global	Tuesday	2,183,000

TV audience numbers over Fall 2012

Every week, BBM publishes reports of the most watched TV programs in the country and many of them were posted on this blog. With the TV viewership figures of these popular shows, let's see how our viewing habits have varied over the course of the Fall TV period.

Weekly Top 30 TV Shows, December 24 - 30

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of December 24 to 30:

Notes: Viewership is the average minute audience.

Notes from BBM Canada: "This chart shows the Top 30 TV programs for all national networks and Canadian English specialty networks for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their AMA...The chart also indicates the broadcast outlet on which the program aired and the program’s start and end time (shown in Eastern Time)." Demographic: All Persons 2+.

When most of us had our TV sets turned off during the holidays, these are the shows that everyone else were watching: news programs, holiday movies. No American reality shows. No American comedies.

Five out of the six most watched TV programs during the Christmas break were either CTV or Global news.

Earlier in the week, ratings for each of the World Junior Hockey round robin games were released which provides us with more insight.

Overnights: Murdoch Mysteries watched by over a million

The latest overnight TV ratings from Bill Brioux:


Sunday Night (January 6)

Program	Network	Viewership
Heartland	CBC	992,000
Dragons' Den	CBC	1,589,000
Republic of Doyle	CBC	802,000
Mob Doctor	CTV	614,000
Family Guy	Global	680,000

CBC's new season began on Sunday.


Monday Night (January 7)

Program	Network	Viewership
Murdoch Mysteries	CBC	1,184,000
Mr. D	CBC	609,000
The Ron James Show	CBC	468,000
Anger Management	CTV	972,000
College Bowl Championship	TSN	519,000

As noted by Bill, Murdoch Mysteries' overnight rating is a record high for the show.

Mr. D welcomed guest star Russell Peters on the season premiere.

World Junior Hockey Championship pulling in smaller audiences

This year's World Junior Hockey Championship is over and the viewership for the round robin games this year are much lower than last year's. The games involving Canada were played live at 4:30 a.m. EST with one played at 9 am against Russia. TSN has a breakdown of the audience sizes of their live and repeat telecasts of the round robin games (largest audiences are in bold):

Wednesday, Dec. 26
• Canada vs. Germany
o Live at 4:30 a.m. ET – 372,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 12 noon ET – 849,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 7:30 p.m. ET – 178,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 10:30 p.m. ET – 39,000 viewers on TSN2

Friday, Dec. 28
• Canada vs. Slovakia
o Live at 4:30 a.m. ET – 286,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 12 noon ET – 610,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 7:30 p.m. ET – 496,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 10:50 p.m. ET – 58,000 viewers on TSN2

Sunday, Dec. 30
• Canada vs. USA
o Live at 4:30 a.m. ET – 561,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 12 noon ET – 904,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 8 p.m. ET – 191,000 viewers on TSN2

Monday, Dec. 31
• Canada vs. Russia
o Live at 9 a.m. ET – 1.6 million viewers on TSN
o Encore at 12 noon ET – 447,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 7:30 p.m. ET – 412,000 viewers on TSN
o Encore at 11:20 p.m. ET – 59,000 viewers on TSN2 

New Year's Eve: Global in Niagara beats City in Toronto

New Year's Eve in Niagara Falls was broadcasted on Global, while City, formerly known as Citytv, aired their outdoor events in Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton. The number of Canadians who watched one of these events indoors on a television are shown below in network press releases. First, Global in Niagara:

TORONTO, January 2, 2013 – Playing host to Canada’s top New Year’s Eve bash, ET Canada kicked off 2013 with a bang! Broadcast live from one of North America’s natural wonders, the fourth annual ‘New Year’s Eve at Niagara Falls’ garnered 846,000 (2+, National) viewers on Monday night with a total reach of 6.0 million (2+, National).

Hosted by Cheryl Hickey and Matte Babel, with the help of Rosey Edeh, the two-hour coast-to-coast countdown was up 12% (2+, National) for Global Television from last year with viewership peaking at 12am with 2.0 million viewers.

Now, City in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton:

TORONTO (January 2, 2013) Broadcasting live in front of more than 100,000 Canadians from three party centrals across the country in Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton – the City New Year’s Bash 2013 attracted a record-breaking 5.9 million unique viewers, tuning into some or all of the four-hour broadcast. 1.7 million Canadians tuned-in at midnight ET to see City personalities welcome in the New Year with the ultimate countdown spectacle featuring fireworks and an exclusive performance of “Auld Lang Syne” by multiplatinum-selling group, The Tenors.  

Kicking off the festivities live from Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square starting at 10 p.m. ET, the City New Year’s Bash 2013 rang-in the New Year in Toronto rocking an average audience of 546,700 viewers (P2+) and drawing 4.5 million unique viewers tuning in to some or all of the broadcast. In Canada’s largest city, the City New Year’s Bash 2013 outperformed Global’s New Year’s Eve at Niagara Falls by 70% among 2+ viewers, and 101% and 145% among key demos among A25-54 and A18-49, respectively.

Immediately following the Toronto event at midnight ET, the party continued live from Olympic Plaza in Calgary and Churchill Square in Edmonton as the City New Year’s Bash heralded in 2013 in the west, drawing an average of 406,900 viewers (P2+) and a total reach of 2.8 million viewers.

Global in Niagara beats City in total viewers, average number of viewers, and viewers at midnight. While the City New Year's Bash appealed to a wider audience this year, from 5.1 million last year to 5.9 million this year (a 15.7% increase), the other new year's eve figures on City have dropped since last year. In 2012, the Toronto event attracted a much larger average TV audience of 652,100 (16.2% decrease in 2013) and 422,000 (3.6% decrease in 2013 including Edmonton event) watched the Calgary event, on average.

Weekly Top 30 TV Shows (December 17-23); NCIS takes #1 spot

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of December 17 to 23:

Notes: Viewership is the average minute audience.

Notes from BBM Canada: "This chart shows the Top 30 TV programs for all national networks and Canadian English specialty networks for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their AMA...The chart also indicates the broadcast outlet on which the program aired and the program’s start and end time (shown in Eastern Time)." Demographic: All Persons 2+.