TSN’s live coverage of the World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game on Tuesday scored a national average-minute audience of 3.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. These preliminary overnight ratings are 2+ and exclude pre and post-game. Levels peaked at 3.8 million during the final half hour. The program is the second-most-watched in TSN’s 20-year history, with the 2003 gold medal game still topping it. The six-game average was 1.6 million viewers, beating the 2003 tournament, which nabbed 1.5 million. TSN is available in eight million households.
French-language RDS’s live coverage of the game attracted a national average-minute audience of 348,000 viewers. TSN.ca recorded its fourth busiest day with more than 4.23 million page views, roughly four times the average amount of daily traffic.
