On the digital front, FOX Sports GO added an average minute audience of 343,865 viewers for last night’s telecast, according to Adobe Analytics, a new record average minute audience for an authenticated event. That figures also marks a +51% increase over World Series Game 7 in 2014 (vs. Wednesday night’s Game 7 on FOX Deportes averaged 565,000 viewers, the most-watched baseball game and most-watched non-soccer sporting event in Spanish language sports network history. Game-by-game ratings/shares and audience average figures for this year’s World Series are as follows: 1.9) and was Fox’s best rating in the demo during the World Series since 2007 (4.0). This year’s World Series audience also delivered significant increases among younger viewers, including males 12-17, a demographic that produced a +105% increase over last year’s performance (3.9 vs. 8.2/14) and a +70% gain in average audience (23.4 million viewers vs.
Louis Cardinals series (four games). Combining average audiences for each of the seven games, more than 115 million viewers watched all-or-part of the 2016 World Series on FOX and FOX Deportes.Ĭompared to the 2014 World Series that also went a full seven games, the 2016 Fall Classic showed a +60% increase over 2014’s average rating/share (13.1/23 vs. The 2016 World Series on FOX averaged a whoppoing 13.1/23 rating/share and 23.4 million viewers, ranking as the highest-rated and most-watched World Series since 2004’s 15.8/26 and 25.4 million viewers for the Boston Red Sox-St. FOX Sports estimates that more than 75 million viewers tuned in to see all-or-part of the Cubs’ dramatic Game 7 victory on Wednesday night. Last night’s contest projects to be FOX’s best Wednesday night ever in primetime.īetween FOX, FOX Deportes and FOX Sports GO, World Series Game 7 delivered a combined average of 40.9 million viewers. 1 primetime program in all of television (LSD). 1 network among A18-49 this season, with the 2016 World Series ranking as the No.
World Series Game 7 on Wednesday night also outperformed 2014’s Game 7 by a wide margin in all of the key male demographics, including M12-17 (+83% 7.7 vs. The telecast peaked with a 27.1/48 household rating with 49.9 million viewers between 11:30 PM – 11:45 PM ET. 23.5 million) and a +58% increase in household rating (vs.
It ranks as the most-watched baseball telecast in FOX Sports’ history and is FOX’s highest-rated and most-watched telecast of any kind since the NFC Championship in January 2016.Ĭompared to World Series Game 7 in 2014 between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals, last night’s game showed a +70% gain on average audience (40.0 million vs. The Chicago Cubs championship-clinching epic 8-7, extra-inning victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night on FOX delivered a massive 21.8/37 household rating/share with an average of 40.045 million viewers. The telecast is now the most-watched baseball game of any kind since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins (50.3 million viewers).