NHL Local TV Ratings on the Rise

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edited December 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
NHL Local TV Ratings on the Rise

Awesome to hear this. BTW I'm watching the NY Islanders (4-2 Caps) and what are those e 4 stripes on the top of the right shoulder of the Isles jersey???
According to Nielsen, seven of 30 NHL teams are showing an increase of at least 33% in local television ratings from last season.

Granted, it's early in the season, but the league has to be happy seeing huge viewership increases in markets like Washington (140%), Chicago (71%), New York (33%), and Los Angeles (33%).

Also on the list of big gainers: San Jose (50%), Denver (36%), and Phoenix (33%). Even Buffalo, where ratings have always been strong, is showing a double-digit increase so far (14%).

Nationally, Canadian broadcasters are doing well.

Hockey Night in Canada viewership has grown in all time slots, with the pregame show making the largest gain. It's averaging 527,000 viewers, for an increase of 56 per cent over last year.

The Game 1 audience is 1.348 million, up 13 per cent.

Game 2's 763,000 is 19 per cent higher than last year.

... TSN's NHL telecasts have an average audience of 496,000 viewers, up 21 per cent from last year.

RDS is averaging 773,000 viewers for Montreal Canadiens games, available nationally, up 21 per cent.

GO BRUINS

Peace
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    ahh... so the front runners in boston are finally jumping on the bruins band wagon?
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,435
    good to see. i'd be curious to see the numbers for purchases of the center ice package.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,630
    i'm hearing they want to go back to ESPN.
    I miss igotid88
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    igotid88 wrote:
    i'm hearing they want to go back to ESPN.

    worst move was leaving ESPN after the lock out. let's see.... you are trying to lure fans back after losing an entire season, so lets not renew our contract with the biggest sports network in the country and instead, have our games televised on a channel called OLN that only 20% of US households have.

    nhl2nite on espn2 was the shit.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    wide screen tv's and hd is why
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    ps -

    there was nothing like gary thorne calling NHL playoff games.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    cutback wrote:
    wide screen tv's and hd is why

    HD and widescreens make it better, but it still really isn't a sport that translates well on TV (as much as I love it).

    I never understood how a sport translated well on TV until I went to an NFL game. Football is unbelievably boring live but it is really good on TV. Conversely hockey is ok on TV but it is blows away any other sport out live.
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  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,435
    Songburst wrote:
    HD and widescreens make it better, but it still really isn't a sport that translates well on TV (as much as I love it).

    I never understood how a sport translated well on TV until I went to an NFL game. Football is unbelievably boring live but it is really good on TV. Conversely hockey is ok on TV but it is blows away any other sport out live.

    plus football your view is much better on tv due to all the replays. chances are when the coach challenges a play and you're sitting in the stands you don't know what the correct call is.
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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    plus football your view is much better on tv due to all the replays. chances are when the coach challenges a play and you're sitting in the stands you don't know what the correct call is.

    For sure. The football game I went to was a good game (Adrian Peterson ran for 296 yards, there was a missed field goal returned 109 yards for a touchdown) but the game was so boring to watch.

    There's nothing better than watching a playoff hockey game (especially in Canada) in terms of atmosphere and entertainment.
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    singularity wrote:
    ahh... so the front runners in boston are finally jumping on the bruins band wagon?
    Not me...still find this sport really boring.

    Get rid of the goalie and I'll start watching it. :p
    you know, make it more like football on ice rather than soccer...;)
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  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,435
    Songburst wrote:
    For sure. The football game I went to was a good game (Adrian Peterson ran for 296 yards, there was a missed field goal returned 109 yards for a touchdown) but the game was so boring to watch.

    There's nothing better than watching a playoff hockey game (especially in Canada) in terms of atmosphere and entertainment.


    Some American arenas are good like that, MSG, Joe Louis, but still don't beat Canada, especially places like Calgary and Vancouver.
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    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
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    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Songburst wrote:
    HD and widescreens make it better, but it still really isn't a sport that translates well on TV (as much as I love it).

    I never understood how a sport translated well on TV until I went to an NFL game. Football is unbelievably boring live but it is really good on TV. Conversely hockey is ok on TV but it is blows away any other sport out live.


    totally agree....but it is more enjoyable to watch hockey on a wide screen as apposed to old tv's and i think hd is bringing the more casual fan back to watching the sport :)
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    LongRd. wrote:
    Not me...still find this sport really boring.

    Get rid of the goalie and I'll start watching it. :p
    you know, make it more like football on ice rather than soccer...;)

    haha, get rid of the goalie? that'd be some interesting stuff.

    reminds me of when i was younger and we would play roller hockey at the local courts and we would lie the garbage pails down and that was our net... you would have to make it in the small circular opening, without a goalie.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    Some American arenas are good like that, MSG, Joe Louis, but still don't beat Canada, especially places like Calgary and Vancouver.

    Minnesota is a good place to see a game (playoff or otherwise) -- I haven't been to too many games in the states. Minny, Buffalo, Chicago. All were good, but none came close to playoff games in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary or Saturday Night at Maple Leaf Gardens (and I HATE the Leafs).
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  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,435
    Songburst wrote:
    Minnesota is a good place to see a game (playoff or otherwise) -- I haven't been to too many games in the states. Minny, Buffalo, Chicago. All were good, but none came close to playoff games in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary or Saturday Night at Maple Leaf Gardens (and I HATE the Leafs).

    You're right, I forgot about Minnesota. The atmosphere in Toronto and Montreal is also good, though the new buildings seem to have a different feel than places like the Maple Leaf Gardens and Montreal Forum.
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    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    singularity wrote:
    ahh... so the front runners in boston are finally jumping on the bruins band wagon?

    Interestng you would say this and IF you're referring to me get up and check the Boston Bruins Thread and see whether I regularly post there or NOT.

    There's no BAND WAGON comng from me, Please clarify.

    A
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    singularity wrote:
    haha, get rid of the goalie? that'd be some interesting stuff.

    reminds me of when i was younger and we would play roller hockey at the local courts and we would lie the garbage pails down and that was our net... you would have to make it in the small circular opening, without a goalie.
    I did like playing Intramural Floor Hockey in college, that was fun. The goaltenders never add enough paddings to block the shots so there were lots of goals scored! :p
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  • rival.
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    g under p wrote:
    Interestng you would say this and IF you're referring to me get up and check the Boston Bruins Thread and see whether I regularly post there or NOT.

    There's no BAND WAGON comng from me, Please clarify.

    A

    ah, i'm just bitter the rangers got their asses handed to them tonight.



    i like the peace symbol!
  • g under p
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    LongRd. wrote:
    I did like playing Intramural Floor Hockey in college, that was fun. The goaltenders never add enough paddings to block the shots so there were lots of goals scored! :p

    When we play street hockey we used Cricket pads for the goalies to drive up the scoring. Being the goalie made the game much more of a challange to stop the ball but I loved it cause i played tough like G. Cheevers. :)

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    singularity wrote:
    ah, i'm just bitter the rangers got their asses handed to them tonight.



    i like the peace symbol!

    :)

    Didn't even check to see what the Rangers did tonight. A
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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