We’re now officially at the midway point of the Winter Olympics. CTV is riding momentum to the finish and here is what it and the other networks in the Olympic Broadcast Consortium are showing on Saturday.
DAY 9 – SCHEDULED SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE• Alpine Skiing: Ladies’ Super-G – The ‘Speed Queens’ return to the hill with their sights set on the podium as Emily Brydon and Britt Janyk hit the slopes, taking on 2010 Downhill gold medallist Lindsey Vonn from the U.S. (CTV, V, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE
• Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 1000m – Brothers Charles and François Hamelin take to the ice looking to share the podium (CTV, TSN, V, OMNI – Cantonese, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)• Short Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 1500m – Kalyna Roberge and veteran Tania Vicent represent Canada’s best chances in this event (CTV, TSN, V, OMNI – Cantonese, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
• Long Track Speed Skating: Men’s 1500m – Former training partners Canadian Denny Morrison and 2010 Long Track 1000m gold medallist Shani Davis of the U.S. turn the ice white hot in the battle for gold (CTV, V, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
• Bobsleigh: Men’s Two-Man – Five-time Olympic Games competitor Pierre Lueders and 2010 World Cup gold medallist Lyndon Rush take their preliminary runs on the world’s fastest track (CTV, RIS Info Sports, OLN, ATN – Gujarati, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
• Curling: Men’s – Undefeated Team Canada (4-0) faces off against 2009 World Champion David Murdoch of Great Britain, who sits 2-2 (Rogers Sportsnet, RIS Info Sports, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)
DAY 9 – ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
• OLYMPIC MORNING – With a recent Super Bowl victory under his belt, Reggie Bush (also know as the beau of reality TV star Kim Kardashian) chats with Daryn Jones. The hosts will also discuss the top performers of the ice dance competition and if Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have what it takes to win gold.• LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE – Well-known French Canadian stand-up comedian Louis-José Houde chats with host Claude Mailhot. Danièle Sauvageau appears in-studio to offer her analysis of the women’s hockey competition at Vancouver 2010.
• ETALK and FASHIONTELEVISION – ETALK surprises golden boy Alexandre Bilodeau with a visit from his comedic idol. Ben Mulroney also goes skating with Nancy Robertson, CORNER GAS alum and star of the new CTV series HICCUPS.
• MOD LIVE @ THE BASE – Jacob and Chris from Hedley co-host the show with MuchMusic VJs Sarah Taylor and Jesse Giddings, and Jully Black and the PEAK SEASON cast drop by the set. Saturday’s Victory Ceremony concert features Welsh rockers Stereophonics.
• DIGITAL LOUNGE – The Canada vs. USA men’s hockey game is previewed and interviews with Jamie Salé and David Pelletier are featured.
And some ratings information from Day 8.
Vancouver 2010 Audience Day 7 Recap: Canada/Switzerland Hockey Game Peaks at 12 Million Viewers
- – OLYMPIC PRIME TIME registers largest audience to date with nearly 6 million viewers from 6 p.m. – 2 a.m. ET –
– 4.1 million see Canada’s seventh medal presented to Christine Nesbitt Thursday night –
– Consortium websites record 190,000 live video views last night –Vancouver, BC (February 19, 2010) – Sidney Crosby’s game-winning shootout goal for Team Canada was watched by an incredible 12 million viewers, preliminary overnight data from BBM Canada data confirms. The 3-2 overtime win over Switzerland was watched on average by 6.8 million viewers, with 769,000 viewers on V/CPAC and RDS. Nearly 19 million Canadians tuned in to some part of the game. After Day 7, 96.3% of the population – or 32.27 million Canadians – have engaged with Vancouver 2010 coverage, according to Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium’s CUME index.
Day 7 Average Audiences
OLYMPIC MORNING/LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE: 807,000
OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE: 2.8 million
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE: 5.94 million
Seven Days, Seven Medals
1 GOLD Alexandre Bilodeau 02/14 Freestyle Skiing / Men’s Moguls 7.3 M 2 SILVER Jenn Heil 02/13 Freestyle Skiing / Ladies’ Moguls 6.6 M 3 BRONZE Kristina Groves 02/14 Speed Skating / Ladies’ 3000m 5.0 M 4 GOLD Maëlle Ricker 02/16 Ladies’ Snowboard Cross 3.7 M 5 SILVER Marianne St-Gelais 02/17 Short Track Speed Skating / Ladies’ 500m 3.5 M 6 SILVER Mike Robertson 02/15 Men’s Snowboard Cross 3.0 M 7 GOLD Christine Nesbitt 02/18 Speed Skating / Ladies’ 1000m 1.5 M
Additional Highlights – Television
- Through 7 days, 31.7 million Canadians have experienced the Games on television, representing 94.6% of the population.
- 77% of Vancouverites have watched some of the Games outside of their homes.
- On CTV alone, the Team Canada hockey game (5.02M) doubled SURVIVOR (Global/CBS, 2.45M) from 8-9 p.m. ET.
- Christine Nesbitt’s gold medal performance in Speed Skating (Ladies’ 1000m) was watched by 1.5 million viewers; later last night, 4.1 million viewers watched her presented with her medal during the Victory Ceremony on CTV and RDS.
- The CAN/GER match in Women’s Curling delivered 1.25 million viewers for TSN, while 1.37 million viewers watched the Men’s Free Skate.
- Curling was also a big draw on Rogers Sportsnet, with 909,000 viewers tuning in to see Kevin Martin skip his fourth win for Canada over France.
- JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE delivered 696,000 viewers for V/CPAC, RDS and RIS, while JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE was watched by 374,000 viewers.
Additional Highlights – Online
- Page views on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca since the beginning of the Games have now topped 80 million.
- After a six-day run, “Opening Ceremonies” was knocked off the podium by “Shaun White” as the most-searched term on Consortium sites.
- Total video consumption continues to rise. More than half a million hours of video was viewed on Day 7, and video visitors are watching more than one hour of video on average.
- Live events continue to draw great crowds online as almost 190,000 video views of live Games coverage were generated last night.
- Canadians are following Team Canada medal winners as the top-viewed on-demand videos were the Ladies’ Speed Skating 1000m gold medal winning performance by Christine Nesbitt, and Marianne St-Gelais’ interview with Brian Williams following her silver win in Short Track Speed Skating.
- People want to know more about Canadian curlers as the top athlete profiles on Day 7 were: #1 Cheryl Bernard (Curling) and #2 Kevin Martin (Curling). Also of interest were #3 Maëlle Ricker (Snowboard), #4 Johnny Weir (Figure Skating), #5 Christine Nesbitt (Speed Skating).
Top Five Television Events
Total Viewers Event Time (PT) Channels 1. 6.8 million Hockey: Men’s CAN/SUI 16:35 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS, OMNI.1, OMNI.2, OMNI AB, OMNI BC, APTN 2. 2.5 million Figure Skating: Men’s Free Skate 17:07 CTV, V/CPAC, TSN 3. 1.5 million Long Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 1000m 13:20 CTV, V/CPAC 4. 1.4 million Alpine Skiing: Ladies’ Super Combined 9:30 CTV 5. 1.3 million Snowboard: Ladies’ Halfpipe 16:00 CTV, V/CPAC, APTN
Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium is delivering 4,800 total hours of coverage from the 2010 Winter Games. Every second of Olympic Games competition will be available live on one of the Consortium’s platforms – CTV, V (and CPAC), Rogers Sportsnet, TSN, RDS, RIS Info Sports, OMNI, OLN, APTN, ATN, CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.
That does it.
