CBC’s Olympic television coverage averages 1.271 million viewers
TORONTO — CBC’s English-language coverage of the Rio Olympics averaged 1.271 million viewers, an 11 per cent increase over the 2012 London Games.
The primetime average was 2.315 million, 23 per cent more than four years ago, CBC said Tuesday.
The most-watched moment of the Games, according to the CBC, was the men’s 200-metre sprint final, which drew 7.2 million viewers.
Some 32.1 million Canadians tuned in to CBC’s English and French coverage at some point during the Aug. 5-21 Games, the network said.