About 1/3 Canada’s population tuned in on television, radio and online streaming at some point during the nearly three-hour broadcast of the last Tragically Hip concert Saturday night, according to CBC. 11.7 million Canadians couldn’t resist hearing and watching the beloved Canadian band and its front man Gord Downie who revealed earlier this year he has terminal brain cancer. An average of 4.04 million people tuned in on TV or via livestreaming, CBC said in a release Sunday night, citing Numeris. The men’s gold-medal hockey game at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics is considered to be the most-watched broadcast ever in Canada. Numeris said at the time that it drew an average of 16.6 million viewers, about double the number of people who tune into most Super Bowls.

Source: thestar August 22, 2016 11:26 UTC