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The highest ratings for an entire World Series is tied between 1978, featuring the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, and 1980, featuring the Philadelphia Phillies and Kansas City Royals. Both series went six games and averaged a rating of 32.8 and a share of 56. [ 5 ]
The 2000 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2000 season.The 96th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between crosstown opponents, the two-time defending World Series champions and American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
This is a list of U.S. weekly (or smallest available unit for time period) television ratings archives from 1948 through 1997. (Primarily Nielsen ratings) . National Nielsen ratings for United States television viewing began in March 1950.
Ratings for the World Series have been declining for years, the 2016 Fall Classic between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians peaked at 40.05 million viewers and viewership has not reached ...
The 2014 World Series averaged an 8.3/14 rating, making it the second-worst-rated World Series in Major League Baseball history. [38] Through six games, the series was averaging 7.4, which would have made it the worst-rated World Series, but Game 7 produced a respectable 13.7 to bolster the series average enough to avoid the notorious distinction.
Probably among the fans cheering the loudest for the New York Yankees as they battled the Texas Rangers in the American League Championship Series, were executives from News Corp. (NWS), the ...
It is a ratings jackpot more than four decades in the making, a bicoastal bonanza that has eluded Major League Baseball since 1981 and Fox Sports since the broadcasting giant aired its first World ...
As previously mentioned, in September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox [6] to televise Saturday afternoon regular-season baseball games, the All-Star Game and coverage of the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox, which was paying the league ...