Canada’s Olympic Broadcasting Consortium’s Schedule for Day 7 of the Winter Olympics

Let’s provide you with the coming attractions on the Canadian Olympic Broadcasting Consortium which is impressing me now that I have an online feed to watch the CTV’s networks.

Day 7 Highlights: Thursday, Feb. 18 – Back with a Vengeance: Team Canada Faces off Against Switzerland in Men’s Hockey

DAY 7 – SCHEDULED SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE  
Long Track Speed Skating: Ladies’ 1000m – 2009 World Champion Christine Nesbitt and Vancouver 2010 3000m bronze medallist Kristina Groves could share the podium as they both race for the gold (CTV, V, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)

Curling: Men’s – Following a strong start on Day 5 in which they went 2-0, Team Canada looks to continue its winning streak as it takes on Sweden in the first of two matches today (Rogers Sportsnet, V, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)

Curling: Women’s – Canadian skip Cheryl Bernard, now 2-0, leads her team against Germany (TSN, RIS Info Sports, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)

OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE  
Hockey: Men’s – Sid The Kid leads Team Canada in a quest for redemption against Team Switzerland, which beat Canada during the round robin in Turin 2006 (CTV, RDS, OMNI-Italian/Cantonese/Punjabi, APTN, THE FAN Radio Network, Corus Québec, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)

Figure Skating: Men’s – Defending Olympic Games gold medallist Evgeni Plushenko of Russia leads by a slight margin after the short program; Canadian Patrick Chan sits seventh heading into the free skate (CTV, TSN, V, ATN-Punjabi, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)

Curling: Men’s – In its second match of the day, Team Canada takes on France (Rogers Sportsnet, RDS, CTVOlympics.ca, RDSolympiques.ca)

Skeleton: Men’s and Women’s – Olympic Games bronze medallist Mellisa Hollingsworth, Olympic Games silver medallist Jeff Pain, and three-time World Cup gold medallist Jon Montgomery are on the fast track to the podium as they take their qualifying runs on the fastest track in the world (RIS Info Sports, OLN, ATN-Tamil, CTVOlympics.ca, RSDolympiques.ca)

DAY 7 – ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
OLYMPIC MORNING – Members of the Canadian luge team discuss the intricacies and dangers of the sport, Olympic gold medallist Duff Gibson previews the skeleton event and Canada’s chances at gold, while CTV travel expert Loren Christie samples B.C. cuisine with Jeff Hutcheson at Robson Square.

LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE – With more than 20 years of biathlon experience under her belt, Martine Albert offers her take on the biathlon competition. Hockey expert Norman Flynn provides his perspective on the men’s hockey tournament.

ETALK and FASHIONTELEVISION –Tanya Kim goes dancing with SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA couple Tara-Jean Popowich and Vincent Desjardins and talks to them about their first Olympic Games experience. Ben Mulroney gets candid with Canadian crooner Michael Bublé.

MOD LIVE @ THE BASE – DJ and producer Deadmau5 joins the party at the Garibaldi Lift Co., along with U.S. cross-country skiier Kikkan Randall. Tomorrow’s MuchMusic broadcast of the Victory Ceremony features Hedley.

DIGITAL LOUNGE – The slam poet from the Opening Ceremony Shane Koyczan is featured, hockey analysts Gino Reda and Doug MacLean talk men’s hockey and Matt Wells continues to welcome Canadian medallists.

And now the ratings in Canada.

Vancouver 2010 Audience Day 5 Recap: 6.2 Million Watch Team Canada Defeat Norway 8-0

• – Afternoon audience of 3.7 million watch Maëlle Ricker win Canada’s second gold –
  – 1.2 million watch Men’s Short Program on Sportsnet –
  – Curling draws more than one million viewers on TSN –
  – Day 5 sees 1.1 million live video views on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca –

Nearly 9 million Canadians were cheering on Team Canada in the final minute of last night’s Men’s Hockey game vs. Norway, preliminary data from BBM Canada confirms today. The game averaged 6.2 million viewers nationally, with 839,000 viewers on V/CPAC and RDS. The hockey game boosted OLYMPIC PRIME TIME’s average audience to the highest yet of the Games, with 5.7 million viewers. Overall, 32 million Canadians have experienced Vancouver 2010 through Day 5 on the platforms of Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, according to its CUME index, representing 95.4% of the population.

Average audiences of coverage by Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium for Day 5 of the 2010 Winter Games.
OLYMPIC MORNING/LE RÉVEIL OLYMPIQUE 824,000
OLYMPIC DAYTIME/JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE 3.1 million
OLYMPIC PRIME TIME/
JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE 5.7 million

Additional Highlights – Television

• 81% of all people in English Canada and 74% of all Francophones in Quebec experienced the Games on television yesterday.
• As of Day 5, more than half of the Canadian population has watched Vancouver 2010 on a television located outside of their homes.
• The mid-afternoon audience watching Maëlle Ricker win Canada’s second gold medal at the 2010 Winter Games peaked at 5.9 million viewers as she crossed the finish line, while an average audience of 3.7 million watched the event.
• 1.25 million viewers on Rogers Sportsnet watched Patrick Chan’s seventh place finish in the Short Program of Men’s Figure Skating.
• CAN/SUI Women’s Curling and CAN/GER Men’s Curling delivered 1.16 million and 1 million viewers respectively on TSN.
• JEUX OLYMPIQUES AUX HEURES DE GRANDE ÉCOUTE delivered 562,000 viewers for V/CPAC, RDS and RIS, while JEUX OLYMPIQUES EN JOURNÉE was watched by 510,000 viewers.

Additional Highlights – Online

• CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca set a personal best yesterday for live video online with 1.1 million live videos viewed on the sites.
• The highest number of concurrent live streams during the 2010 Games so far happened during the Canada vs. Norway Men’s Hockey Game / Men’s Figure Skating Short Program with 57,000 peak concurrent views (Conviva)
• Day 5 ended with a record 55 million total page views on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.
• In addition, there have been more than 5 million unique visitors to both sites since the Games began.*
• Canadians have watched a total of 1.4 million hours of online video since the beginning of the Games.
• Maëlle Ricker’s gold medal-winning Snowboard Cross event was the most-watched on-demand video of Day 5
• Top 5 athletes by profile on Day 5: #1 – Kevin Martin; #2 – Alexandre Bilodeau; #3 – Maëlle Ricker; #4 – Andrei Markov; #5 – Patrick Chan
• Live blogs on Consortium sites have seen almost 300,000 participants.
• Audience engagement with Consortium brands continues to rise day by day with almost 8,000 followers on Twitter to @CTVOlympics, @RDSolympiques and sport-specific Twitter feeds, and 20,000 friends on Facebook

Top Five Television Events

Total Viewers Event Time (PT) Channels

1. 6.2 million Men’s Hockey: CAN/NOR 16:35 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS

2. 3.7 million Ladies’ Snowboard Cross (Medal Round) 14:29 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS

3. 2.1 million Ladies’ Snowboard Cross (Qualification) 12:00 CTV, V/CPAC

4. 2.08 million Figure Skating: Men’s Short Program 16:22 CTV, V/CPAC, Sportsnet

5. 1.9 million Men’s Curling: CAN/NOR 09:10 CTV, V/CPAC, RDS, APTN

That does it. Back on Thursday.