Gold-medal game most watched TV broadcast in Canada
Posted March 1, 2010 5:04 pm.
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More than 16.6-million people watched the gold medal men’s Olympic hockey game on TV, Sunday.
It was an epic game that delivered an epic audience. In fact, Sunday’s golden match has become the most-watched television broadcast ever in Canadian history.
Nearly half of the Canadian population watched the entire game on average, while 80 per cent of Canadians (26.5-million) watched some part of the game. The game aired live on nine television networks in eight languages via Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
“Crosby scores! Sidney Crosby! The golden goal! And Canada has once-in-a-lifetime Olympic gold!,” called play-by-play announcer Chris Cuthbert as Canada clinched its record-breaking 14th gold medal of the 2010 Games.
Meantime in the United States, NBC said the hockey final was the most-watched hockey game in the country in 30 years.
In addition, the closing ceremony became the second most-watched broadcast ever in Canada, as 14.3-million viewers said goodbye to Vancouver 2010.
A total of 24.5-million watched some part of that broadcast.
