The series-clinching game that put Vancouver into the NHL Stanley Cup Final brought an average audience of just over four million Canadians to their TV sets on Tuesday. CBC is quite happy over the numbers and provides this press release to us.
CBC’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA DRAWS 4 MILLION VIEWERS TO VANCOUVER/SAN JOSE GAME FIVE
Double overtime game ranks as second largest Stanley Cup Round Three Playoff audience since 1993
Millions of Canadian hockey fans tuned into CBC’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Tuesday night to watch the Canucks earn their spot in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. Game Five between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks drew an average audience of 4.03 million viewers*, only to be surpassed by Game 7 in the Toronto/Los Angeles series in 1993, which drew 4.24 million viewers.
The audience for Tuesday’s Vancouver-San Jose nail-biter peaked at 10.7 million viewers.
* Source: BBM Canada, Total Canada, Overnight, Ind. 2+, AMA, Share, Reach, May 24/11
That will do it.
