MLB Playoffs TV Ratings – Sports TV Ratings

Indians-Cubs World Series Game 3 Is Most-Watched Game 3 Since 2004

October 29, 2016

The Cleveland Indians 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in game 3 to take a 2-1 lead in the 2016 World Series averaged 19.4 million viewers. The game peaked with 24.5 million viewers from 11:30-11:41 PM ET. That’s up 47% versus game 3 of Royals-Mets last year. Including Fox Deportes and Fox Sports Go the game averaged 19.78 million viewers edging out the 19.77 million combined viewing for game 1….

Cubs-Indians Game 2 averages 17.4 million viewers, up 27 percent versus 2015 Mets-Royals (Updated)

October 27, 2016

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Update: including Fox Deportes and Fox Sports Go the game averaged 17.8 million viewers. The Chicago Cubs win over the Cleveland Indians in game 2 of the 2016 World Series averaged 17.395 million viewers, up 27 percent versus 2015’s game 2 (Mets-Royals, 13.7 million) and was the most-watched game 2 since 2009 (Yankees-Phillies, 18.9 million.) While some folks will hail the above comparison as evidence that the earlier start time…

Cubs-Indians Game 1 averages 19.4 million viewers, up 30% versus 2015 Mets-Royals

October 26, 2016

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The Cleveland Indians win over the Chicago Cubs in game 1 of the 2016 World series averaged 19.368 million viewers. That’s up 30 percent vs game 1 of the Mets-Royals World Series in 2015 that averaged 14.9 million viewers. The game fell just shy of the 19.5 million for game 1 of the Yankees-Phillies series in 2009. Game by game viewership averages going back to 1996 can be found here. You should…

Dodgers-Cubs, Wisconsin-Iowa, Ole Miss-LSU top cable sports TV ratings for Saturday October 22, 2016

October 25, 2016

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Please follow @SportsTVRatings on Twitter because I tweet some numbers there that I don’t post on the web site. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Saturday October 22, 2016: (includes overall cable top-10) Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation. — All data ©Nielsen (data provided by a variety of TV network sources and not directly from Nielsen) Note:…

Dodgers-Cubs NLCS-clinching Game 6 draws record FS1 viewership, but series down 11% from 4 game Mets-Cubs 2015 NLCS

October 23, 2016

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Game 6 of the 2016 Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs NLCS averaged 9.706 million viewers on FS1. That easily surpassed the previous record for FS1 (Game 2 of the series, which averaged 7.291 million). The game peaked with 12.213 million viewers from 10:30-10:45 PM ET. While the 9.7 million for game 6 was the most for any LCS game on any network since 2010, it wasn’t enough to boost…

Dodgers-Cubs NLCS Game 6 is another ratings record for FS1, easily bests Ohio State-Penn State

October 23, 2016

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Per Fox Sports EVP of research Michael Mulvihill, the Chicago Cubs win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in game 6 of the NLCS to earn their first trip to the World Series since 1945 earned a 6.3 overnight rating on FS1 (on average 6.3 percent of the households in the largest 56 markets were tuned-in.) That easily eclipses the previous record of a 5.3 overnight rating set for game 5….

Cubs-Dodgers, Bears-Packers, Miami-Virginia Tech top cable sports TV ratings for Thursday October 20, 2016

October 21, 2016

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Note: the Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers game averaged 14.202 million viewers across CBS and NFL Network. The 3.036 million in the table below is just the NFL Network portion. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Thursday October 20, 2016: (includes top-10 for all cable shows + most-watched Gunsmoke rerun on TV Land) Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation. –…

Cubs-Dodgers NLCS Game 5 another ratings record for FS1; nearly doubles Bears game in Chicago

October 21, 2016

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Per Sports Business Journal’s Austin Karp, game five of the Chicago Cubs versus Los Angeles Dodgers NLCS drew a 5.3 overnight rating (on average, 5.3% of the homes in the largest 56 markets were tuned-in.) That eclipses the previous record of a 5.0 overnight rating set less than a week ago for game two of the Dodgers-Cubs series. Karp also notes that locally in the Chicago market, the Cubs drew a…

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