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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 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
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.
That Cubs-Cleveland 2016 Game 7 shattered decades of ratings doldrums, its 40.8 million average viewers making it the most-watched Series game this century, and the largest audience since Games 6 ...
The FOX TV ratings drew 15.2 million viewers, the largest Game 1 audience since the 2017 World Series between the Houston Astros and Dodgers and a 62% increase over last year’s Arizona ...
4 Television coverage and ratings. 5 Sponsorship. ... They did not appear in the World Series from 1945 until 2016, the longest drought of any MLB club.
The MLB on Fox pre- and post-game broadcast set at Progressive Field in Cleveland during its coverage of the 2016 World Series. Major League Baseball (MLB) has been broadcast on American television since the 1950s, with initial broadcasts on the experimental station W2XBS, the predecessor of the modern WNBC in New York City.