All eyes in Canada were on the City of Light as the Olympic Games Paris 2024 kicked off with a spectacular Opening Ceremony on the River Seine that drew in significant audiences on all CBC/Radio-Canada platforms. One in three Canadians (more than 13.3 million viewers) watched at least part of CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony on CBC and Radio-Canada networks and broadcast partners TSN, Sportsnet and RDS, with an additional 1.9 million streams on CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital platforms, including CBC Gem, ICI TOU.TV, CBC/Radio-Canada’s Paris 2024 websites (cbc.ca/paris2024 and radio-canada.ca/paris2024), the CBC Paris 2024 app for iOS and Android devices, and the Radio-Canada JO Paris 2024 app. Audiences in Canada can stream the Opening Ceremony anytime on CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV.

Canadians are also streaming more during Paris 2024, with total video hours streamed on CBC/Radio-Canada platforms tripling compared to the same day during Tokyo 2020, and 775,000 hours of content streamed.

“We’re delighted to have given Canadians the chance to experience the wonders of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, and to be swept up in the emotions felt from one side of the world to the other. In keeping with our mandate as a public broadcaster, these Olympic Games are an opportunity for us to continue to bring together audiences from across the country, and to share the stories, the dreams and the triumphs of our athletes.”  comments Catherine Tait, CEO and President of CBC/Radio-Canada