Raps season opener gets terrible ratings (54,000 viewers)

[Rhettmatic]

These ratings are scary bad. The team is owned by media companies. Can't possibly see management keeping the status quo:

@simmonssteve: Television ratings from opening night of each season. Leafs 2.3 million. Jays 1.4 million. Argos 673,000. Raptors 54,000. More in Sunday column

[TheDoctor]

What channel was that on? I was at the game... but that's part of the problem too.

[TheFreshPrince]

Wow that's depressing.

[DWiz]

The product on the floor is terrible, so go figure. 54k ? yikes

[Dr Octagon]

Put the game on TSN3 Pacific, that should help increase those numbers.

[Lazy]

This team is horrible... why would anyone want to watch these bums?

[Throwback24]

An 8th seed push will fix our ratings moving forward. All in on the Raptors campaign.

[Yorkex]

Not everyone has SN1 and TSN2 - these people dont think!
What the hell do they even show on those 2 channels ? :/ ....always trying to rip off people. Good for them, bastards.

[James_Raptors]

Absolutely disgusting and depressing.Hell, my wife and I planned our week leading up to the Raptors opener, so that we were free for a special dinner and made it an all night affair.Granted we may not be in the norm, but to think that the viewership was that low , just.. hurts.

[carl_english]

How many people are subscribed to TSN2? These guys need to put it in the main channels
That's another problem, there is no consistency in the scheduling so people don't know when and where to watch. It would make sense to simplify it by having one channel hold it for one year(SN) then the other channel hold the rights the second year(TSN). Kapiche? They can even let Coin Toss Ross do the coin flip.

[bradonlywins]

i bet more people streamed it than watched it on those special networks ...these channels are a joke showing curling wrestling and poker all the time

[Lord_Zedd]

Put the game on TSN or Sportsnet and maybe we'll talk. Not to mention world series was on the same time too.

What numbers did they seriously expect when they broadcast their games on Sportsnet 1 or TSN 2?

[wolfv]

I wish this team would have their games on just ONE channel. Can't the score/sportsnet 360 just show all their games? It would really help in building a consistent audience. All this TSN/TSN2/SN/SN1 stuff is confusing. I don't even know what channel the games are on half the time and I'm a fan

[Nosike17]

Just put the damn games on TSN.

Impossible for most college students to watch games on TSN2, most apartments/residences/dorms just offer basic cable.

[UnderdogRaptors]

putting the home opener on tsn 2 is one of the dumbest things you can possibly do

[Zeno]

Wow, that's Expos level.

[Rhettmatic]

How many people are subscribed to TSN2? These guys need to put it in the main channels
That's another problem, there is no consistency in the scheduling so people don't know when and where to watch. It would make sense to simplify it by having one channel hold it for one year(SN) then the other channel hold the rights the second year(TSN). Kapiche? They can even let Coin Toss Ross do the coin flip.

According to this article, TSN2 has 6.3 million subscribers: http://sportsbusinesscanada.com/amazing ... nada-tsn2/

[LeetGoose]

I hope this makes it clear to whoever is in charge of putting Raptor games on TSN2 that making people pay for a channel to watch a team that has been below average for years is not going to work. So instead of 3 hours of curling, how about you put the Raptors on TSN or Sportsnet 360.

[DWiz]

I wish this team would have their games on just ONE channel. Can't the score/sportsnet 360 just show all their games? It would really help in building a consistent audience. All this TSN/TSN2/SN/SN1 stuff is confusing. I don't even know what channel the games are on half the time and I'm a fan

Its pretty bad that I needed to order 4 different channels just to watch one team.

[bradonlywins]

Does anyone know if sportsnet 360 will still have court surfing or was it cancelled i really hope not