The average audience of 6.9 million viewers (English and French) here broke a lot of Canadian sports viewership marks, and even beat the Canadian audience for The Big Bang Theory's series finale.
Friday's Game 4 saw a higher average English-language audience in Canada than this year's Super Bowl (which wasn't simsubbed).
While many have wondered about Canadian team playoff exits and what that means for Rogers' NHL deal, they've actually had more Canadian teams make the playoffs on average than TSN/CBC did in the last five years of their deal.
CBC's average primetime audience rose to 3 million for the PyeongChang Olympics, up from the 2.7 million they had in Sochi. Over 85 per cent of the Canadian population watched some of the Games. That's a contrast to the declines NBC has seen.
Any analysis of Canadian versus American TV ratings needs to account for the population difference in the two...
