TORONTO (June 19, 2015) – The FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ continues to break audience records on CTV, TSN, and RDS with overall consumption of the tournament at an all-time high.

Live coverage of the tournament continues on CTV, TSN, and RDS with the Round of 16, highlighted by Canada vs. Switzerland this Sunday, June 21 at 7 p.m. ET on CTV, TSN, and RDS.

Canada Audience Stats

• The Canadian national women’s team’s three group stage matches averaged 2 million viewers, with their second game against New Zealand breaking the record for most-watched FIFA Women’s World Cup™ match ever with an average audience of 2.3 million viewers

• The average audience for Canada’s first three games on CTV/TSN/RDS is more than four times the audience for their opening three games in 2011 (459,000)

• Overall, 11.6 million unique Canadian viewers have tuned in to Canada’s three games at the tournament, which saw them finish as the top team in Group A and advance to the knockout stage

FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ Group Stage Audience Stats

• 15.8 million unique Canadian viewers – or nearly half of the country’s population – have watched the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ group stage

• Collectively, Canadians have consumed 31.2 million hours (nearly 1.9 billion minutes) of FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ coverage on CTV, TSN, and RDS

• Total viewing through the group stage of the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ is more than three-and-a-half times that of the 2011 tournament

• 7.6 million unique Canadian female viewers have tuned in to CTV, TSN, and RDS to watch live action from the tournament’s group stage

• Four out of 10 of all Canadian girls aged 2-17 have watched the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™

• The USA vs. Sweden game became the most-watched non-Canadian group stage game ever with 611,000 viewers on CTV and RDS, breaking the record set by USA’s opening game vs. Australia

Digital Stats

• The FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ has accounted for 3.5 million total page views on TSN.ca in the month of June

• The tournament has accounted for 10.1% of video consumption

• 22,848 live streams of live tournament action have been recorded through TSN.ca and TSN GO

Action from the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ continues tomorrow (Saturday, June 20) with live coverage of the opening two matches from the Round of 16, including #1 world-ranked team Germany vs. Sweden at 3:30 p.m. ET on CTV, and China PR taking on Cameroon at 7 p.m. ET on CTV.

Additional information on CTV/TSN’s coverage of the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015™ is available at TSN.ca/FIFA.

Source: Numeris (BBM Canada)