Millions of Canadians Continue to Flock to TSN and RDS for the World Juniors

TORONTO (December 31, 2015) – TSN continues to attract major audiences for Team Canada games at the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship. Preliminary overnight data from Numeris confirms that audiences are up 41% for Team Canada’s first three games compared to the last tournament held in Europe (the 2014 IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP in Malmo, Sweden). To date, more than 9.8 million Canadians have tuned in to watch some or all of TSN and RDS’s wall-to-wall coverage of the World Juniors in Helsinki, Finland. An average audience of 1.4 million viewers tuned in to TSN (1.28 million) and RDS (170,000) for Canada’s 6-1 rout over Denmark on December 28, while 1.69 million viewers tuned in to TSN (1.46 million) and RDS (234,000) for Canada’s 3-2 victory over Switzerland on December 29. Overall, 4.1 million unique Canadian viewers tuned in to watch the Canada-Denmark game on TSN and RDS, while 4.3 million unique Canadian viewers tuned in to TSN and RDS for the Canada-Switzerland game. On Boxing Day, an average audience of 2.9 million Canadians watched Team Canada’s opening game against USA, making it the most-watched World Juniors opening game ever held outside North America, and the top-rated hockey game on any network to date in the 2015/16 broadcast year. <<NOTE TO MEDIA: Additional audience data from the World Juniors will be available in the coming days.>>  TSN and RDS’s World Juniors coverage continues with the quarter-finals on Saturday, Jan. 2, highlighted by Team Canada taking on Finland at 11 a.m. ET.  Broadcast Schedule TSN’s broadcast schedule for the remainder of the 2016 IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP is as follows: Saturday, Jan. 2

• Quarter-final #1: Denmark vs. Russia at 7 a.m. ET on TSN
• Quarter-final #2: Slovakia vs. Sweden at 9 a.m. ET on TSN
• Quarter-final #3: Canada vs. Finland at 11 a.m. ET on TSN
• Quarter-final #4: Czech Republic vs. USA at 1 p.m. ET on TSN

Sunday, Jan. 3

• Semifinal #1 at 9 a.m. ET on TSN
• Semifinal #2 at 1 p.m. ET on TSN

Tuesday, Jan. 5

• Bronze Medal Game at 9 a.m. ET on TSN
• Gold Medal Game at 1:30 p.m. ET on TSN

*Schedule subject to change Source: Numeris For electronic measurement data that dates back to 1994. Audiences prior to August 31, 2009 are based on BBM Nielsen Media Research Mark II meters.