Crain's Chicago Business reports: Canada's gold-medal hockey victory Sunday over the United States was the most-watched hockey game in 30 years and drew an astounding 23.4 local rating on WMAQ-Channel 5. The rating peaked at 28.7 (more than 1 million homes) at 4:45 p.m.
Nationally, Canada's 3-2 overtime win drew an average viewership of 27.6 million, the most watched hockey broadcast of any kind since the USA vs. Finland 1980 gold-medal game in Lake Placid on Feb. 24, 1980 (32.8 million). The "Miracle on Ice" USA-Russia semifinal game that aired on tape delay on Feb 22, 1980, drew 34.2 million viewers.
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Huge ratings??!!
Bob Costas, how hard would it have been to tell everyone you were broadcasting to that the quarterfinals were on MSNBC???
Nothing like 40 seconds of hockey after 2 hours of Costume Ice Dancing! LMAO
It was a great game !
Ervin O. Raab
It wasn't on MSNBC that's why it got huge ratings.
What should the NHL learn?