NBC Earns 4.0/7 Nielsen Rating For Stanley Cup Finals Game Six

Red Wings' Stanley Cup-Clincher  Earns 4.0/7 Rating On NBC

CANADA: The GLOBE & MAIL's William Houston reports the CBC for Game Six drew its "largest audience of the playoffs" with 2.739 million viewers. The CBC for the Stanley Cup Finals averaged 2.3 million viewers, down 8% from 2.5 million for Ducks-Senators last year. The CBC's average audience for Devils-Ducks in '03, the last all-U.S. Finals, was 1.51 million viewers. Meanwhile, French language RDS drew 858,000 viewers for Game Six, the net's largest non-Canadiens audience of the postseason. RDS averaged 738,000 viewers for the Finals, up 20% over '07 (GLOBE & MAIL, 6/6).

THE GRUDGE REPORT? The GLOBE & MAIL's Houston also reports Pat Brisson, the agent for Penguins C Sidney Crosby met with the CBC Sports Exec Dir Scott Moore after Game Six to discuss the "peculiar coverage of Crosby" on "HNIC" during the Stanley Cup Finals. Crosby was "largely ignored" during the series by the CBC's Ron MacLean and Don Cherry. The conversation between Brisson and Moore was "amicable, but inconclusive" (GLOBE & MAIL, 6/6).

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