Guest pappajacks Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 I'm hoping someone can help me understand why the WWE has never been so highly rated in Canada (on TSN), while the ratings seem to decline in the U.S. Last week, ratings hit an all-time high on TSN (something like 1.025 million viewers). WWE Raw in Canada attracts an average audience of 800,000 viewers each week (in a country of 30 Million). In the U.S., which contains close to 270M people, Raw hardly attracts 4 M people.
Guest RavishingRickRudo Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Canadians have a weird sense of loyalty... The WWE still did good business up here even in their low in the mid-90's.
Guest ViciousFish Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Yeah but if I lived in the Maritimes and had to go to the Halifax Raw and Smackdown where EVERY Canadian wrestler lost I would have been really fucking pissed. When they go to Japan and they put Tajiri in a title match I understand why he couldn't win but in Canada what was so wrong about having one Canadian win a match?
Guest RavishingRickRudo Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Canada didn't join up with the US in the war in Iraq...
Guest ViciousFish Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Someone has posted that before. Fucking McMahon's...
Guest Kahran Ramsus Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Keep in mind that Canadians have a much greater love affair with wrestling dating back to Stampede and the Rougeaus, than the majority of Americans. The audience in Canada is almost exclusively smark-filled, where as the US is dominated by the casuals. This is the key difference. You just need to watch any interviews done by wrestlers in the Canadian media and you will notice the difference. The pre-dominant opinion of Americans is that WWE is almost a carnival act or a freak show. Canadians consider it art.
Guest Kahran Ramsus Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Canada didn't join up with the US in the war in Iraq... We have a lameduck PM and a left-dominated government because of the split in the PC/Canadian Alliance. It has been this way for 10 years now, and things won't change until they kiss and make up. If Paul Martin wins the leadership race, I expect things to significantly improve, although I am worried about his own party railroading him out of town. Quebec has always been anti-war on a whole, while the rest of the country tends to agree with the Americans. Right now we have a Quebec PM with a large majority in the House of Commons. Our country is very split at the moment in terms of opinion. My problem isn't so much that we should have gone to war, but the way in which we handled it. Many members of the cabinet were complete assholes towards the Americans. That is simply uncalled for, especially when Canada relies so greatly on the US. Many Canadians have been paying for it since.
Guest RavishingRickRudo Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 I dunno about the generalization that Canadian audiences are smark-filled... I've been to some WWE shows in the past and there was a surprising number of... wrestling fans... I just think that Canadians, as a whole, have been watching the WWE (and WCW, and strangely enough ECW) longer than Americans (Ok, not ECW - though there is a surprising amount of ECW fans in Canada) - and we tend not to forget all the angles and such.
Guest Youth N Asia Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Are Canadian rating like Canadian money? Where it's only worth like 3/5 as much? In all seriousness I wonder what kind of impact Canadian ratings from other countries impact the WWE.
Guest Lord of The Curry Posted May 21, 2003 Report Posted May 21, 2003 Well, we DID manage to take out HHH by cheering the ever-living fuck out of Hogan at WrestleMania 18. That's gotta count for something.
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