Dodgers-Yankees Game 5 gives World Series highest viewership since 2017
The 2024 World Series drew great numbers for MLB and Fox, but both will be wondering what could have been with a short series.
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World Series Game 4 audience hits multi-year high
Through four games, the Fall Classic is averaging 14.98 million viewers.
Game 3 World Series viewership down as Dodgers eye sweep
While it was the least-watched game of the series so far, it was the most-watched Game 3 since 2018.
Predicting Dodgers-Yankees World Series viewership
Dodgers-Padres Game 5 drew more viewers in Japan than United States
The Dodgers-Padres game featuring Shohei Ohtani, Yu Darvish, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto drew a massive audience in Japan.
Multiple Game 5s lead to most-watched MLB Division Series in 7 years
The Division Series captured an average of 3.56 million viewers across 18 games
Marquee teams deliver strong viewership for MLB divisional series
Led by a number of brand-name teams, Fox's broadcasts of NLDS games have seen strong bumps compared to last season.
MLB Wild Card viewership sees big jump on day one
Tigers-Astros on ABC averaged 3.19 million viewers, up 44% from last season.
ESPN’s ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ puts up best viewership numbers since 2019
SNB averaged 1,505,000 viewers across the 25 broadcasts.
Should you care about World Series ratings?
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What is Major League Baseball missing?
The Major League Baseball postseason is right around the corner, but the sport is struggling to create any hype about it.
ESPN, Fox weekend MLB broadcasts up from season averages to start 2023
A positive start for two national packages.
White Sox-Astros draws best Opening Day audience for ESPN since 2020
This was also the most-watched regular season Astros game since 2017.
World Baseball Classic pulling out all stops to surpass 2017 numbers
"The best players on the biggest stage and that's what we want and part of this is to grow the game and you want the best players participating so it's exciting."
2022 World Series Game 6 is least-watched ever, series ends as most watched since 2019
The World Series finished better than each of the last three seasons, but Game 6 was not a highlight.
Cardinals-Dodgers produces TBS’ second-highest Wild Card Game audience ever
The game averaged 6.7 million viewers.
Yankees-Red Sox sets new AL Wild Card Game viewership record, is most-watched MLB game on ESPN since 1998
The ESPN audience averaged 7.11 million, with an average of 583,000 more watching on ESPN2 and 144,000 more watching on ESPN Deportes.
“Field of Dreams” game averaged 5,903,000 viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes
This game wound up drawing very, very well for Fox, and it looks like it may become a regular thing.
World Series Game 1 draws a record low 9.195 million viewers
This year's World Series opener drew three million fewer viewers than last year's Game 1.
ESPN’s MLB Opening Day game averaged 4 million viewers, most-watched regular season game since 2011
The game's viewership peaked with 4,480,000 viewers at 8:30 p.m. ET.
Through five games, the 2019 World Series has produced three of the 10 least-viewed World Series games on record
The 2019 World Series ratings have not been good at all from a historical perspective.
Red Sox-Dodgers World Series was third-lowest rated on record, ahead of only 2012 and 2014
The 8.3 average rating was the third-lowest on record, and the average viewership of 14.13 million viewers (on linear Fox) was the fourth-lowest.
MLB local ratings up 2 percent overall for 2018 regular season, with Cardinals jumping into first
The Cardinals, Red Sox and Brewers had the best stories with their local ratings this year.
ESPN draws impressive overnights for its two MLB Tiebreaker games
An unprecedented day of two MLB tiebreaking games led to the highest ratings for afternoon regular season games on the Worldwide Leader
Thanks to MLB LCS, FS1 and TBS finish 1-2 in primetime cable ratings
LCS games were ranked as seven of the top ten most-watched programs on cable last week.
