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Record numbers for Canada / USA Gold Medal Hockey Game; 16.6M in Canada, 27.6M on NBC

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on March 1, 2010 at 6:39 pm

The Gold Medal Hockey match between Team Canada and Team USA yesterday drew a record 16.6 million viewers in Canada (the biggest television telecast ever in the country) and 27.6 million on NBC (most-watched Hockey game since the 1980 Lake Placid Hockey game). Meanwhile, the closing ceremonies drew 14.3 million viewers in Canada (which makes [...]

Canada-USA Hockey on MSNBC draws 8.2 million viewers; 167 million Americans have watched 2010 Vancouver Olympics

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on February 22, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Last night’s highly anticipated Olympic Hockey match-up between Canada and USA — which ended in USA’s 5-3 upset over Canada — drew an average 8.22 million viewers on MSNBC. That’s just shy of MSNBC’s record average viewership for a program (the networks coverage of John McCain’s concession speech on November 4, 2008 — from 11:19-11:29 [...]

Cable TV Ratings: Caprica Slide Continues; Spartacus Up Again + more

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on February 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm

Bad news for Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica. Week three of the series drew just 1.13 million viewers and a 0.4 A18-49 rating. That was down a steep 20% from last week’s episode (1.41M viewers and a 0.5 A18-49 rating). Caprica is down 29% from its series premiere (1.60 million viewers).

Also on Friday, the new [...]

Miss America 2010 Draws 4.5M Viewers; Best Performance for the Pageant in Cable

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on February 2, 2010 at 9:17 pm

TLC’s telecast of the Miss America 2010 beauty pageant on Saturday night drew 4.5 million viewers, an improvement of 1 million viewers or 29% over last year’s telecast and a record showing for the beauty pageant on cable.

The show was also first for the night among all ad-supported cable networks — with the exception of [...]

Cable TV Ratings: Caprica Still Weak; Spartacus Up; Pro Bowl Most-Watched in Decade

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on February 1, 2010 at 8:25 pm

The NFL’s decision to hold the Pro Bowl the week before and in the same city as the Super Bowl (Miami) turned out to be a great call. The 2010 Pro Bowl drew a 7.1 HH rating and 12.3 million viewers on ESPN Sunday night. That was 40% above last year’s telecast on NBC and [...]

Hope for Haiti Now Telethon Averages 24.1M Viewers (Seen By 83M); Raises $61M

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on January 25, 2010 at 11:55 pm

The two-hour Hope for Haiti Now telethon on Friday night averaged 24.11 million viewers for its two hours with 83 million viewers tuning in (6-minute average) at some point during the telecast. The telethon raised more than $61 million. Head on over the jump to read the press release.

Spartacus Premieres to Record Ratings on Starz

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on January 25, 2010 at 11:36 pm

The series premiere of the Starz original series Spartacus: Blood and Sand got off to an impressive start for the pay-cable network on Friday night. The drama — which Starz renewed for a 2nd season even before its first debuted — pulled in 659,000 viewers (and a 0.3/1 A18-49 rating/share) on Starz with another 578,000 [...]

Weak Start for Syfy’s Caprica

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria on January 25, 2010 at 11:24 pm

The two-hour series premiere of the Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica got off to a weak start on Friday night, drawing just 1.602 million viewers and a 0.4/1 A18-49 rating/share.

It should be noted however, that this pilot episode was actually already released on DVD and Blu-ray several months ago and has also been available to [...]

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