Ok, here is what is on tap for CTV and its sister networks in the Canadian Olympics Broadcast Consortium for today.
Day 10 Highlights: Hockey Rivalry Continues: Team Canada Looks to Put Team USA On Ice, Sunday, Feb. 21Daily Highlights – Vancouver 2010
Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media ConsortiumDAY 10 – SCHEDULED SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Ski Cross – Three-time World Cup gold medallist Chris Del Bosco looks to strike gold in Ski Cross, which makes its Olympic Games debut (CTV, RDS, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)Bobsleigh: Men’s Two-Man – Pierre Lueders and Lyndon Rush race for a spot on the podium as they take their final runs on the world’s fastest track (CTV, V, RIS Info Sports, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Curling: Women’s – Skip Cheryl Bernard and Team Canada take on the U.S. in its first of first of two matches today (CTV, V, APTN, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Curling: Men’s – A perfect 5-0, Kevin Martin and Team Canada challenge Markus Eggler and Team Switzerland in Sunday’s match (TSN, APTN, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE
Hockey: Men’s – With first place in Group A on the line, Team Canada looks to defeat Team USA on home ice in a rematch of the Salt Lake City 2002 men’s gold medal game (CTV, V, OMNI – Italian/Cantonese/Punjabi, THE FAN Radio Network, Corus Québec, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)Long Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 1500m – Canada is looking to sweep the podium as Vancouver 2010 gold medallist Christine Nesbitt, Vancouver 2010 bronze medallist Kristina Groves, and 2009 World Cup bronze medallist Brittany Schussler race for gold (CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, RDS, ATN – Urdu, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Figure Skating: Ice Dance – 2009 World Championship bronze medallists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir currently sit in second place after the compulsories (CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, V, RDS, ATN – Punjabi, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Curling: Women’s – Currently tied for first, Team Canada faces China in its second match of the day (TSN, RDS, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
DAY 10 – ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
OLYMPIC MORNING – Hockey analyst Gino Reda discusses the highly publicized rivalry between Team Canada and Team USA and provides analysis on Sunday’s game between the two teams. Also Fred Ewanuick, Gemini-Award winning actor and star of the new CTV sitcom DAN FOR MAYOR, is on hand to share what it’s like to host the Victory Ceremonies.LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE – Former NHL head coach Jacques Demers discusses the upcoming Team Canada game against Team USA. Gaétan Boucher, four-time Olympic Games medallist in Long Track Speed Skating and member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, chats with host Claude Mailhot.
ETALK and FASHIONTELEVISION – Lainey has all the gossip from the night’s hottest parties, while Jeanne Beker chats with Stephan Moccio about his hugely successful single, I Believe.
MOD LIVE @ THE BASE – Stereos, discovered on MuchMusic’s DISBAND, drop by for an interview and an acoustic performance, while OneRepublic talk about being in Whistler during the Games. Sunday’s Victory Ceremony concert sees Trooper and Loverboy perform.
DIGITAL LOUNGE – Vancouver 2010 Ladies’ Halfpipe gold medallist Torah Bright and Men’s Figure Skating silver medallist Evgeni Plushenko talk about their recent victories. Also, the Canada vs. USA hockey game is previewed, along with stories from Molson Canadian Hockey House.
And the ratings for Day 8 of the Winter Olympics.
Vancouver 2010 Audience Day 8 Recap: 4.6 Million Watch Jon Montgomery Win Gold for Canada
- – Fellow Skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth draws 4.4 million –
– CAN/DEN Men’s Curling delivers 1.4 million viewers on TSN –
– Canadians have watched an average of 21.5 hours of Games coverage so far –
– Teens 12-17 are avid viewers of Consortium coverage –It was a late night gold medal for Canada, but a peak of 4.6 million viewers were watching as Jon Montgomery triumphed in Skeleton. Montgomery’s final heat was watched on average by 2.2 million viewers, peaking as he was announced the winner at 11:33 p.m. ET. Earlier, 4.4 million viewers watched Mellisa Hollingsworth’s fifth place finish in the same sport. After Day 8, 96.7% of the population – or 32.4 million Canadians – have engaged with Vancouver 2010 coverage, according to Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium’s CUME index.
Day 8 Average Audiences
OLYMPIC MORNING/LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE 897,000
OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE 2.6 million
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/
JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE 4.53 million
Additional Day 8 Highlights – Television
- Over eight days, OLYMPIC PRIME TIME is averaging 5.15 million viewers, while OLYMPIC DAYTIME averages 3.63 million and OLYMPIC MORNING 1.1 million.
- The 31.86 million Canadians who have watched Vancouver 2010 on television so far have viewed an average of 21.5 hours of coverage.
- Teens aged 12-17 are becoming some of the most avid consumers of Vancouver 2010 coverage. Yesterday, 75.4% of Teens 12-17 watched some Consortium coverage, one of the highest reaches of any demo.
- TSN saw million-plus audiences for Men’s Curling (CAN/DEN, 1.4 million viewers) and Figure Skating (Ice Dance: Compulsory Dance, 1.3 million viewers).
- 606,000 viewers watched the Czech Republic defeat Latvia 5-2 in Men’s Hockey on Rogers Sportsnet.
- JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE delivered 496,000 viewers for V/CPAC, RDS and RIS, while JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE was watched by 393,000 viewers.
Additional Day 8 Highlights – Online
- Day 8 brought yet another 10 million + page views to CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.
- There were more than 1.6 million video views on Day 8, bringing the total number of videos watched online to 14 million.
- Hockey continues to dominate on demand video viewing. Highlights from Canada vs. Switzerland Men’s Hockey is the most-watched video from Day 8, followed by highlights from Canada vs. Sweden Women’s Hockey, representing almost 200,000 video views. The third most-watched video was Jon Montgomery’s gold medal run in Skeleton.
- Curlers continue to be the most-viewed athlete profiles on the sites with Team Canada Curling Skips Cheryl Bernard, Kevin Martin and recently-benched US Skip John Shuster all making the list. Rounding out the list are Canadians Mellisa Hollingsworth (Skeleton) and Patrick Chan (Figure Skating).
- Audiences continue to network online with almost 9,000 interactions this week alone on CTV Olympics Facebook Fan page.
- In addition, there are hundreds of interactions each day through main Twitter accounts @CTVOlympics and @RDSolympiques, and additional sport-specific accounts. Social media sites account for tens of thousands of referrals to CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca each day.
Top Five Television Events – Day 8
Total Viewers Event Time (PT) Channels
1. 4.4 million Skeleton: Women’s Heat 4 16:55 CTV, V/CPAC, OLN, RIS
2. 2.24 million Skeleton: Women’s Heat 3 15:45 CTV, OLN, RIS
3. 2.18 million Skeleton: Men’s Heat 4 19:50 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS, OLN, APTN, RIS
4. 2.06 million Curling: Men’s Canada/Denmark 14:05 TSN, Sportsnet, RDS, APTN
5. 2 million Skeleton: Men’s Heat 3 18:20 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS, OLN, APTN, RIS
Linkage is next.
