Sunday's historic Grey Cup between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers produced big ratings for the CFL on CBC.
The CFL's first all-Prairie championship showdown, won 23-19 by Saskatchewan, drew a national average (game-only) audience of 3.337 million viewers.
Jermese Jones shows the Grey Cup to fans at Mosaic Stadium on Monday.
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That represented a four per cent increase over last year's Grey Cup (3.202), and stands as the sixth-highest viewership since the tracking of game-only audiences began in 1996.
The highest recorded game-only audience was 4.416 million in 2002, when the Montreal Alouettes beat the host Edmonton Eskimos 25-16.
An average audience of 2.887 million viewers watched the entire broadcast of Sunday's 95th Grey Cup, including pre- and post-game coverage.
Viewership peaked at 3.791 million viewers, making it the 10th highest full-telecast audience in Grey Cup history.
The largest full-telecast audience was 3.876 million in 1994, when the British Columbia Lions pulled out a 26-23 victory over the Baltimore Stallions — the first Grey Cup featuring an American expansion franchise.
