15.2 million Canadians watch weekend Olympic coverage

TORONTO - More than 15 million Canadians tuned in to watch Olympic coverage on CBC Television on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, claims the CBC.The total number of people who tuned in at some point from the beginning of Friday’s coverage until midnight Sunday (programming which included the opening ceremony and the first two full days of competition), was 15.2 million people. But the numbers pale in comparison to China’s. According to Reuters, the four-hour opening ceremonies on Friday night drew as much as 69% of China’s total audience of 1.3 billion, or 842 million viewers. China, which is largely served...