mrsocko wrote:puinha wrote:LittleOzzy wrote:610,000 average views.
Much better number then game one. Impressed, should grow even more for games 3 & 4 away.
As i live in Europe, i'm not confortable discussing numbers or tv shares but u are saying that tsn had 610000 viewers?
Toronto as what, 4 million people? And Canada? I think canadians dont like basketball at all with those numbers... If it was a NHL playoff game what would the number of viewers be like?
My Euro Brother, Toronto has 6.5 Million people. Canada has 35 million people. In Europe the average attendance for the Euro league final was 15169 in 2012. Yesterday for the first round of the playoffs the Raptors sold out the arena with 19800 seats sold at $317 a ticket average. That's about 250 Euros. That's the highest ticket price in the NBA.
Canada likes Basketball very much. By the way what do the Euro league playoff tickets cost? Do you know how many people watch the games on Euro TV?
I'm happy basketball getting more popular in Canada, but you should not look into Euro numbers for comparison as you would be disappointed. When for example Zalgiris (local Lithuanian team) goes deep (final four) in the Euroleague (granted its been a long time they did so), the TV audience was higher than the Raptors last game coverage. Mind you Lithuania has about 12 times smaller population than Canada.
TV audience obviously depends on the matchups. In Barcelona-Olympiacos Euroleague final 4 game, TV audience in Spain average 891k (peaked 1,2mln) and averaged 1,044 mln in Greece (peaked 1,885 mln). And again, have in mind Greece has 3 times lower population yet average over 1mln audience per game.
And it's not like basketball is number #1 sport in Europe, just like its battling Hockey in Canada, here football (americans would call soccer) reigns all over TV channels..