World Series Final Game Captures Over 50 Million Audience Members In the United States, Canadian and Japanese Regions.
The exciting extra-inning clash that saw the Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays by one run averaged a aggregate 51M viewers across the US, Canadian, and Japan territories. MLB stated this marks the most-watched Fall Classic finale since the 1991 contest between the Twins and Atlanta Braves.
Television Ratings Breakdown
Last Saturday’s epic game averaged 27.33M viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the week.
It additionally stands as the most-watched Fall Classic game since the 2017 final game involving the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent improvement compared to the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19 million.
In the weekly rankings, Game 6 ranked fourth, Game 4 was 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and Game 3 finished in 13th place.
Global Audience Figures
In Canada, the game recorded 11.6 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the most-watched English-language broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In the Japanese market, where the final game began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12M. This followed last Friday’s sixth game – where Fall Classic MVP Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – averaged over 13 million spectators, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic game on a single network in the country.
Series Totals and Trends
The full seven-match World Series averaged over 15.7 million audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the first time since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen audience growth for two straight years.
Counting the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the total American average was 16.1M. The total World Series average in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in Canada.
The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09M viewers, an 8% increase over the previous year and the network’s best playoff performance since 2017.
Major League Baseball reported that the World Series was televised in 203 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 various languages.