14 million (43% of Canadian population) watched the Grey Cup!

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Saskatchewan heartbreak in Grey Cup witnessed by record television audience

(CP) – 1 day ago

TORONTO — A record TV audience watched the Saskatchewan Roughriders blow the Grey Cup.

Citing preliminary figures, TSN says a combined 6.1 million viewers on TSN and its sister French station RDS watched the Montreal Alouettes' 28-27 win Sunday night in Calgary.

More than 14 million Canadians, or nearly 43 per cent of the population, watched the game in whole or in part. And 8.35 million viewers were tuned into the two networks at 9:49 p.m. ET as Montreal kicker Damon Duval kicked the winning field-goal.

"What a way to end the season, an unbelievable game with more Canadians watching than ever before," CFL commission Mark Cohon said in a statement.

The previous Grey Cup record - at least since television metre measurement was introduced in 1989 - was the Montreal-Edmonton game in 2002 when CBC drew an average of 4.224 million. Combined with RDS, that figure was 5.2 million.

TSN's audience of 5.087 million is also a record for the network, surpassing the 2009 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medal game that attracted 3.7 million viewers.

TSN, which took over showing the Grey Cup last season, said the 2009 championship game was the most-watched telecast on Canadian television this year, ahead of both the Oscars and Super Bowl, although the method of tracking viewership numbers was based on a different system (BBM Nielsen Media Research Mark II meters) prior to the end of August.
 
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I guess SIA was NOT part of that 14 million, as they STILL haven't graded the futures wager.
 

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Awesome news, hopefully it gets a little more popular. CFL is a great sport, would love to get it regularly in the states without having to get a satellite.
 

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So there's only about 35 million people living in Canada? I thought there'd be more.
 

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who cares...

i think 4 million watched it for the actual event and the other 10 million had money on the game
 

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Games aren't supposed to end that way. It was an absolutely fantastic game but the penalty just ruined it. It would have been better if it was never called.
 

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They shouldn't have called the penalty???

Are you joking? It was a legitimate penalty that cost them the cup. You have to follow the rules.
 

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Yup, but in Hollywood entertainment la-la land stuff like that isn't called.

Just saying, for viewing purposes it would have been a better game had that never been called.

It was a storybook game of the underdog beating the juggernaut with emotional ups and downs, but the call was a buzzkill.
 

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