TORONTO – A national average audience of 3.337 million viewers tuned in to see the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23-19 on CBC on Sunday. The 95th Grey Cup Championship drew the sixth highest game-only audience since 1996, when the process of tracking game only audiences began.
The figure is 4% above the 3.202 million viewers that tuned into the 2006 Grey Cup game.
Audiences peaked at 3.791 million viewers between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET. An average of 2.887 million viewers watched the entire broadcast, including the pre-game player introductions and post-game interviews, on CBC.
All audience figures are 2+ average and from BBM.
The top ten game-only audiences to a Grey Cup broadcast on the CFL on CBC, since 1996 when the process of tracking game-only audiences began, are:
2002: Montreal / Edmonton – 4.416 million
2004: Toronto / B.C. – 4.012 million
1996: Toronto / Edmonton – 3.860 million
2003: Montreal / Edmonton – 3.859 million
1998: Calgary / Hamilton – 3.392 million
2007: Saskatchewan / Winnipeg – 3.337 million
2000: B.C. / Montreal – 3.282 million
2006: B.C. / Montreal – 3.202 million
2005: Edmonton / Montreal – 3.169 million
1999: Hamilton / Calgary – 2.878 million
