Bazinga! CTV is Canada’s Most-Watched Network for 10th Straight Year
– 2010/11 TV Season Report Card confirms CTV as Canada’s #1 network in total viewers and A25-54 for full decade –
– CTV is home to nine of Canada’s Top 10 shows –
– CTV delivers three out of four top new returning programs –
– CTV grows prime time while Global and Citytv decline –
– CTV wins more timeslots than all other networks combined –
TORONTO, May 31, 2011 /CNW/ - With the 2010/11 television season now complete, CTV has once again won the season in total viewers and the key advertising demos A25-54, A18-49, and A18-34, it was revealed today. Based on data from BBM Canada through the end of the season last Wednesday, May 25, CTV is Canada's most-watched network in total viewers and A25-54 for the 10th straight year, making it Canada's #1 network for the past decade.
CTV marks the milestone with nine out of the Top 10 programs in Canada (total viewers) and seven out of the Top 10 programs for A25-54 and A18-49, both led by Canada's #1 program, THE BIG BANG THEORY. The only program in Canada to average more than three million viewers each week, THE BIG BANG THEORY is the first comedy since FRASIER (#1) and FRIENDS (#2) in 1998/99 to reign as Canada's most-watched program overall (see Top 20 chart in link below).
CTV also ends the season as the only network to show growth in key demos this season over last. CTV leads CBC, Canada's #2 network for total viewers, by 50% in prime time, with 1.5 million viewers on average each night.
Read the rest, including BBM numbers, here: http://ctvmedia.ca/ctv/releases/release ... &yyyy=2011