Awful Announcing
Rogers' Sportsnet Now crashed during the first half of Game 5 of the NBA Final. Bell's Fibe TV crashed in the final 30 seconds there. And Fibe TV's app crashed during the final moments of Game 6, causing viewers to miss the moment where the Raptors officially won the NBA championship.
Helwani gave a passionate speech about what he thinks the Raptors' win meant to Canada.
Just about 2,000 miles off there, TSN.
The solid (but not spectacular) rating slots in the middle of the pack when compared to prior Game 6 ratings.
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.
The injury to Kevin Durant obviously casts a bit of a shadow over the NBA Finals, but the overnight rating for Game 5 was easily the best of the series.
Friday's Game 4 saw a higher average English-language audience in Canada than this year's Super Bowl (which wasn't simsubbed).
Toronto's home market doesn't help American television ratings, but the possibility of a competitive series has to be promising.
After getting bumped on standby from multiple flights and an ill-timed Pei Wei run, Tas Melas missed out on seeing Toronto clinch the East.
This graphic put Hamilton south and west near Windsor, and Oshawa as far east as Kingston.
There's a lot to keep track of during the next 10 days.
Which NBA games do you need to watch in March?
"We don’t play as many of the so-called ESPN games, why is that? We’ve had one of the best records the last five years in the league so I don’t understand why the NBA does not give us, I think it’s a bunch of BS if you ask me, that they don’t give us more games."
Drake really is multi-talented.
