Fall Classic Game 7 Attracts 51M Audience Members In the US, Canada and Japan Markets.
The exciting extended contest that saw the Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a total 51M watchers across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this marks the most-watched World Series Game 7 after the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Twins and Braves.
Television Ratings Details
Last Saturday’s epic contest secured over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports channels, Fox Deportes and their streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the week.
It additionally is the most-watched World Series game after the 2017 Game 7 between the Dodgers and Astros, which drew over 29 million. This represents a sixteen percent increase compared to the previous finale between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million.
In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked fourth, Game 4 ranked 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and Game 3 landed in 13th place.
Global Audience Figures
In the Canadian market, the game drew 11.6M watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports. This was the most-watched English program in Canada since the 2010 Winter Olympics.
In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest started at 9 PM in the local time zone, it averaged 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – drew 13.1M viewers, making it the most-watched Fall Classic matchup on a single network in the country.
Overall Totals and Patterns
The entire seven-game World Series averaged 15.71M audience members on Fox, a 2% increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the first time after 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has recorded viewership growth for two straight years.
Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the total American average was 16.1 million. The total Fall Classic average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market.
The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels drew 8.09 million watchers, an 8% increase over the previous year and the network’s best playoff performance since the 2017 season.
MLB reported that the World Series was televised in 203 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in sixteen different tongues.
