VICTORIA and TORONTO – CHEK TV’s Rock for Relief fundraising concert held last Friday was seen by 20% of British Columbia TV viewers, the broadcaster reported this week.
Rock for Relief featured performances by David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Randy and Tal Bachman, the Tenors, Trevor Guthrie, and current American Idol contestant Lauren Spencer-Smith from Nanaimo, as well as local Vancouver Island favourites Jesse Roper, Carmanah, Aaron Pritchett, Kathryn Calder and many others.
The broadcast helped raise nearly $691,000 for Islanders in need during the Covid-19 pandemic. An additional 250,000 people watched the concert on social media channels, too.
“By any measure this was beyond expectations,” said CHEK general manager Rob Germain in an email.
The station is pushing the sale of concert T-shirts to try to hit the $700K mark. Please click here if you want to buy a shirt and help out.
A living room concert seen around the world Saturday drew even bigger numbers in Canada, according to overnight ratings seen by Cartt.ca. That evening’s broadcast of One World: Together at Home drew more than five million Canadian viewers on the many channels it was available, including CTV, CTV2, TSN, CP24, MUCH, MTV, VRAK, Global, National Geographic, ABC Spark, Citytv, CBC, and TLN Media’s Univision.
This number of course doesn’t count the myriad ways the show was available online, too.
The concert featured many, many international stars.
The next big living room concert is this Sunday’s star-sudded Canadian event, Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble, which will air on a multitude of Canadian broadcasters and their online outlets.
