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Gold medal game a ratings winner for TSN
The Canadian Press

TORONTO - The Canada-Sweden world junior hockey final Saturday afternoon was the fourth most-watched program ever aired by TSN.
Live coverage of the championship game, won 3-2 in overtime by Canada, attracted a national average audience of 2.22 million viewers, the network announced Monday. Peak viewership was 3.04 million just before the start of overtime.
The ratings were up 23 per cent from last year's gold-medal game in Sweden when 1.8 million watched. Another 168,000 viewers took in the replay later Saturday, while 526,000 watched on RDS, bringing total viewership to 2.8 million.
The gold-medal game was the No. 2 program of the week in Canada. It was edged by Desperate Housewives on CTV (Jan. 6, 2.27 million).
TSN's coverage of Canada's seven tournament games averaged 950,000 viewers, making it the most successful world junior tournament for TSN taking place in Europe, surpassing the previous high of 933,000 in 2007 in Sweden.
Canada's 4-1 win over the United States last Friday attracted 1.02 million viewers.
TSN's most-watched program of all-time was the 2003 gold-medal game between Canada and Russia with 3.45 million viewers.
The record audience for a sporting event in Canada, with more than 10 million English and French-language viewers on CBC, was the Canadian men's gold medal hockey win over the U.S. at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics.