Weekly Top 30 TV Shows (January 28 - February 3), Super Bowl viewed by 6.4 million

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of January 28 to February 3:

Weekly Top 30 TV Shows (January 21 - 27): CSI most watched for 2nd week

BBM released its latest weekly list of Top 30 TV programs watched by Canadians. This is their rankings for the period of January 21 to January 27:

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:

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.

Popular TV shows sorted by genre

Using the same TV audience data from BBM Canada for the 22^nd to 28^th of October, we added the genre of each show to help us understand what types of shows are popular. Below, this graph shows the number of popular programs by genre:

Drama leads with 16 programs, while comedy and reality trail behind with six and five respectively.