The Journal Pioneer
If you were glued to the television Sunday watching the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, you were not alone. Many Islanders were tuned in but so were hundreds of thousands more, watching the underdogs take on the defending champs.
An average audience of 1.2 million viewers watched Team Canada’s Jennifer Jones win her fourth Canadian women’s curling title with a dramatic 8-7 extra-end win over P.E.I.
The championship game of the Scotties had the highest television audience ever recorded in the tournament’s history.
Since P.E.I. has nowhere near enough residents to make up this huge viewing audience, there must have been plenty of Team Canada fans or plenty of Canadians intrigued by the David-versus-Goliath story.
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