With two chances for Canadian gold falling by the wayside on Saturday, hopes are now on the Long Track Speedskating oval as Cindy Klassen holds the hopes of Canada on her shoulders on Sunday. Klassen won gold in the Turin Games and is now the gold medal hope in the 3,000 meters. This is what is on tap for the Canadian Olympic Broadcasting Consortium for Sunday.
Day 3 Highlights: Sunday, Feb. 14 Feeling The Love: Groves, Klassen and Bilodeau Go for Gold on Valentine’s DayDaily Highlights – Vancouver 2010
Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media ConsortiumDAY 3 – SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
OLYMPIC DAYTIME / JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE Long Track Speed Skating – 2009 World Championship bronze medallist Kristina Groves and six-time Olympic Games medallist Cindy Klassen skate for gold in the Ladies’ 3000m (CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, V, ATN)
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME / JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE Freestyle Skiing: Moguls – Alexandre Bilodeau, Vincent Marquis and Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau look to sweep the podium in the Men’s Moguls (CTV, V, OMNI – Mandarin, ATN)
Figure Skating: Pairs – Three-time Canadian champions Jessica Dubé and Bryce Davison fight to get Canada back on the pairs’ podium as they perform their short program (CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, V, OMNI – Mandarin and Portuguese, APTN)
DAY 3 – ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
OLYMPIC MORNING – Catriona Le May Doan visits with Bev and Jay to talk about the state of Long Track Speed Skating and Canada’s chances at the Games. Emily Brydon’s mother also appears to talk about her daughter’s long-standing ambition to be an Olympic Games alpine skier and about the role the Fernie, BC community played in getting Brydon to the Games.
LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE – To celebrate Valentine’s Day, viewers get an intimate look at the relationship of Charles Hamelin and his girlfriend, Marianne St-Gelais, both short track speed skaters who are vying for gold at Vancouver 2010. Three-time Olympic Games medallist Catriona Le May Doan chats with host Claude Mailhot.
ETALK and FASHIONTELEVISION – FLASHPOINT’s David Paetkau returns to his hometown of Vancouver to celebrate a green Valentine’s Day at Grouse Mountain. Lainey dishes gossip tidbits and celebrity sightings, including a party recap featuring the Holt Renfrew soirée where Jeanne Beker caught up with Dean and Dan Caten of DSQUARED2.
MOD LIVE @ THE BASE – It’s a jam-packed Valentine’s Day with a performance from Bedouin Soundclash and interviews with Brit-singer Estelle and BC natives from MTV’s THE BURIED LIFE! Some of the PEAK SEASON cast drop by to welcome the MOD gang to Whistler.
And one note on the final ratings for Friday’s Opening Ceremony.
Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremony Viewed by 84% of Canadians Watching Television Last Night
- — Nearly 9 million watch on CTV alone —
- — Audience peaks at 15.6 million as Team Canada enters stadium —
— TORCH RELAY: THE JOURNEY HOME is sampled by more than 8 million viewers —Last night’s live coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony delivered an 84 Share, meaning 84% of everyone viewing television in Canada last night was watching the coverage on Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium. Airing live across 11 television networks in 11 languages and online at CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca, the television coverage peaked at 15.6 million viewers at 7:14 p.m. PT when Team Canada entered BC Place during the Parade of Nations. As announced earlier, the broadcast has become the most-watched television event in Canadian history with a preliminary estimated audience of 13.3 million viewers.
On the Consortium websites, nearly one million video views were generated online during the ceremony. A total of 1.6 million unique visitors embraced content on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca throughout the day.
“The Canadian Olympic team will break records at these Games,” said Ivan Fecan, President and Chief Executive Officer, CTVglobemedia and Chief Executive Officer, CTV Inc. “But, the first record was broken last night.”
According to the Consortium’s CUME (Canadian Unique Multimedia Experience) index, 26 million Canadians in all experienced Vancouver 2010 during Day 1 on the Consortium’s platforms, representing 78% of all Canadians.
Day 1 Television Recap:
On English-language television, the Opening Ceremony was watched by nearly 9 million viewers alone on CTV (8,948,000), while all
-sports stations TSN and Rogers Sportsnet delivered an average of 1.32 million and 868,000 viewers respectively.
- On French-language television, the Opening Ceremony attracted an average audience of 942,000 viewers on V, with an additional 906,000 viewers on RDS.
- CTV’s all-day coverage of TORCH RELAY: THE JOURNEY HOME was watched in whole or in part by a staggering 8 million viewers throughout its nine-hour broadcast, and saw an average audience of 700,000.
- The Consortium’s English language OLYMPIC PREVIEW SHOW averaged 4.7 million viewers from 4-6 p.m. PT while the French-language LE GRAND DECOMPTE delivered more than 800,000 viewers.
- Day 1 Online Recap:
- Canadians spent more than 133,472 hours in total watching live video at CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca – the only Canadian sites with live coverage of the Games.*
- Page views for CTVOlympics.ca on Day 1 of the Games reached 9.4 million with 1.7 million video views.
- RDSolympiques.ca delivered 803,443 page views and 151,045 video views, marking the most-trafficked day in the websites’ history.
- Interest in Friday’s tragic luge accident resulted in many site visitors getting acquainted with Canadian luger Jeff Christie. His profile on the site topped all athlete profile views for the day.
- During the Opening Ceremony, more than 50,000 Canadians participated through their online communities in a live chat through the interface live blog on CTVOlympics.ca.
- Within minutes of posting the words to Shane Koyczan’s moving poem, We Are More, roughly 1,000 @CTVOlympics Twitter followers clicked through to the text of the poem on the CTVOlympics.ca site.
So that concludes this post. I can feel my eyes glossing over. I need sleep.
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