The 112th Grey Cup was a great showcase for the Canadian Football League and drew a strong television audience, though the broadcast was plagued by intermittent blackouts.
The broadcast feed for Sunday’s game, which was simulcast on TSN, CTV, and RDS, momentarily dropped at seemingly random times throughout the game, resulting in millions of viewers being stuck watching a black screen for seconds at a time.
It doesn’t appear as though the network has yet determined the cause of the problem, though they are in the process of figuring that out.
“We were aware of intermittent feed issues impacting the Grey Cup broadcast and immediately engaged technical teams to rectify the problem,” a network spokesperson wrote to 3DownNation in a statement. “The issue unfortunately persisted throughout the broadcast, despite multiple efforts to address it. We are conducting a full post-mortem analysis to determine the source of the issue.”
At least one feed disruption occurred during each of the game’s four quarters, including one shortly before Shea Patterson’s costly fumble, which spoiled Montreal’s chances of tying the game with a late-fourth quarter touchdown.
Based on preliminary data, an average audience of 4.02 million people watched the 112th Grey Cup across TSN, CTV, and RDS, though the breakdown between those channels remains unclear. That was a 12 percent increase from 2024 with the network also reporting a 27 percent increase in streaming viewership on TSN+.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated the Montreal Alouettes in the 112th Grey Cup at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg by a score of 25-17.
Trevor Harris was named Most Valuable Player after he completed 23-of-27 pass attempts for 302 yards, winning his first Grey Cup as a starter. Samuel Emilus was named Most Valuable Canadian after he made 10 catches for 108 yards, finishing only two receptions shy of tying the Grey Cup record.
