Here’s the schedule on CTV and its sister networks in the Canada Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
Day 13 Highlights: It’s the Quarter-finals in Men’s Hockey as Four Teams Vie for a Berth in the Semis, Wednesday, Feb. 24DAY 13 – SCHEDULED SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE
Long Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 5000m – Clara Hughes looks to defend her Olympic Games gold medal from Turin 2006 and two-time Vancouver 2010 medallist Kristina Groves sets her sights on the podium (CTV, RIS Info Sports, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Hockey: Men’s Quarter-final #1 – The first of four quarter-final games takes place as teams vie for a spot in the semifinals (Rogers Sportsnet, V/CPAC, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Cross-Country Skiing: Men’s 4x10km Relay – Alex Harvey, Devon Kershaw, Ivan Babikov and George Grey look to improve on their fifth place finish at the 2009 World Championship and land on the podium (CTV, OLN, RDS, RIS Info Sports, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE
Hockey: Men’s Quarter-final #2 – Quarter-final #2 takes place with a berth in the semis on the line (CTV, V/CPAC, OMNI – Italian/Cantonese/Punjabi, APTN (Cree), THE FAN Radio Network, Corus Québec, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Hockey: Men’s Quarter-final #3 – Two teams face off in the third of four quarter-final match-ups (TSN, V/CPAC, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Hockey: Men’s Quarter-final #4 – The final quarter-final match-up of the day (CTV, RDS, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Bobsleigh: Women’s – Two-time Canadian national champion Helen Upperton and World Cup gold medallist Kaillie Humphries compete to win Canada’s first medal in Women’s Bobsleigh (Rogers Sportsnet, RIS Info Sports, ATN – Gujarati, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
Short Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 3000m Relay – Canada’s relay team, the only Short Track team to win a medal at every Olympic Games since the event debuted, goes for gold (TSN, RDS, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
DAY 13 – ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
OLYMPIC MORNING – The cast of MTV’s PEAK SEASON joins Seamus O’Regan and Melissa Grelo in Whistler to compete in a series of Olympic Games Challenges.
LE REVEIL OLYMPIQUE – An Olympic Games gold medallist in Moguls at Lillehammer 1994, Jean-Luc Brassard appears in-studio. Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton analyst Jean-Paul Baert chats with host Claude Mailhot.
ETALK and FASHIONTELEVISION – Leah Miller chats with Juno Award-winning songstress Jully Black about performing at the Games and her dreams of competing as a Skeleton racer while Jeanne Beker goes on a pin trading expedition.
MOD LIVE @ THE BASE – illScarlett drops by the Whistler set for an interview and acoustic performance. Australian rockers Jet talk to VJs Sarah Taylor and Jesse Giddings about their Canadian experience at the Games. MuchMusic presents the Victory Concert ceremony featuring INXS.
DIGITAL LOUNGE – The Virtue and Moir families share their stories about gold medal winners Tessa and Scott and the team discusses men’s hockey.
And you have Monday’s ratings in Canada.
Vancouver 2010 Audience Day 11 Recap: 7.05 Million see Virtue and Moir Win Gold
- – Women’s Hockey sees its largest audience yet as 3.6 million watch Canada defeat Finland –
– Rogers Sportsnet achieves first-ever two million plus audience with Free Dance – – OLYMPIC MORNING on CTV
has now reached more than half of the country’s population, seen by nearly 17 million viewers –Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s first North American gold in Ice Dance was witnessed by 7.05 million viewers last night at 11:38 p.m. ET as their scores were announced. More than 15 million Canadians watched some part of the four-hour event, which achieved an average audience of 3.5 million viewers. Ice Dancing also proved to be a huge hit for Rogers Sportsnet, which achieved its highest audience ever and its first two million plus audience with 2.03 million viewers alone. After Day 11, 97.8% of the population – or 32.76 million Canadians – have engaged with Vancouver 2010 coverage, according to Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium’s CUME index.
Day 11 Average Audiences
OLYMPIC MORNING/LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE 652,000
OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE 2.3 million
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE 5 million
Additional Day 11 Highlights – Television
- 25.2 million viewers watched Consortium coverage yesterday, representing three quarters of the Canadian population.
- The Women’s Hockey semifinal win for Canada over Finland was the most-watched sporting event of the day with 3.6 million viewers, the largest audience for any Women’s Hockey game so far and 42% higher than the CAN/SVK game.
- The Victory Ceremony in which Virtue and Moir were presented with their gold medal was watched on average by 5.24 million viewers.
- Curling continues to be a big draw: 1.1 million watched skip Cheryl Bernard lead Canada to a win over Sweden on Sportsnet while 652,000 saw Kevin Martin and his squad remain undefeated with a win over Great Britain on TSN.
- JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE delivered 560,000 viewers for V/CPAC, RDS and RIS, while JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE was watched by 322,000 viewers.
Additional Day 11 Highlights – Online
- Day 11 saw another 12 million page views on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.
- 2.2 million videos were viewed, including 1.3 million live event video views.
- Top on demand video was the highlight reel from the Men’s Canada vs. USA hockey game with 156,000 views, followed by (for the fourth day running) Women’s Hockey Canada v. Sweden highlights. Various videos featuring Virtue and Moir take the final three spots in the Top 5, and include their last ice dancing performance before their Gold Medal winning skate, followed by Olympic Journey – Virtue and Moir.
- Virtue and Moir also dominated the top photo galleries on Day 11. The Ice Dancing Gallery was in top spot, their dedicated gallery and the Free Dance Gallery are all in the Top 5. Latest Photos and Wipeouts round out the list.
- Team Canada curlers remain determinedly in the top spots for most viewed athletes with Cheryl Bernard and Kevin Martin both claiming Top 5 status. Figure skaters Joannie Rochette and Tessa Virtue are also in the Top 5, along with double Gold Medal winning German Biathlon competitor Magdalena Neuner.
- Top sports are #1 Hockey, #2 Figure Skating, #3 Curling, #4 Nordic Combined and #5 Freestyle Skiing.
Top Five Television Events – Day 11
Total Viewers Event Time (PT) Channels
1. 3.6 million Women’s Hockey: CAN/FIN 17:05 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS, OMNI.2, OMNI AB, OMNI BC, APTN
2. 3.5 million Figure Skating: Ice Dance Free Dance 16:52 CTV, V/CPAC, Sportsnet, RDS, OMNI.1
3. 1.8 million Women’s Curling: CAN/SWE 14:05 CTV, Sportsnet, RDS
4. 1.71 million Cross-Country Skiing: Ladies’ Team Sprint Free Final 13:00 CTV, RDS, OLN
5. 1.7 million Cross-Country Skiing: Men’s Team Sprint Free Final 13:29 CTV, RDS, OLN
Sources Television: BBM Canada
Online: Omniture unless otherwise indicated
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That’s it.
