Sportsnet reporting big ratings win with Blue Jays wild card game
Posted Oct 5, 2016 5:21 pm.
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The Toronto Blue Jays may have come out on top in their wild card game against the Orioles but they weren’t the only one big winners Tuesday night.
According to Sportsnet, the showdown between Toronto and Baltimore was their most watched program in 2016, with an average audience of 4.02 million viewers.
Overall more than 9 million Canadians watched some part of the broadcast with the audience peaking at the bottom of the ninth inning with none out.
After the game was done, an average audience of 1.04 million viewers watched Sportsnet Central’s hour-long post-game coverage, the most-watched Sportsnet Central this year.
Rogers Broadcasting says it was also Sportsnet’s fifth-most watched broadcast of all time.
