Posted on 10/29/2020 9:10:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Los Angeles Dodgers finally tasted victory in October on Tuesday, winning the 2020 World Series. The ratings of the contest itself weren’t nearly as victorious.
Game 6 of this year’s World Series, a 3-1 Dodgers win to clinch the series, drew in 12.6 million viewers, according to the Associated Press. That made it the most-watched game of the series, but also cemented an ignominious record for the 2020 Fall Classic.
The series ended up averaging 9.785 million viewers per game, shattering the record for lowest average viewership in a World Series, according to The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch. The previous low had been 12.7 million viewers in the 2012 World Series, a San Francisco Giants sweep of the Detroit Tigers.
Here’s how the viewership for each game broke down:
Game 1: 9.195 million
Game 2: 8.950 million
Game 3: 8.156 million
Game 4: 9.332 million
Game 5: 10.059 million
Game 6: 12.627 million
Just how bad are those numbers? Let’s put it this way: The previous record low for viewership of a World Series game was 9.8 million in the 2008 World Series. This year’s World Series came in under that mark four different times.
The fact that a six-game World Series set the average viewership low is especially rough, given that ratings tend to get better as a series goes on. The Dodgers fanbase is also sizable enough that you have to wonder just how bad things could have been had a team in a smaller market won the NL.
it wasn’t a real MLB season... it wasn’t a real NBA season... World Series and NBA Finals with asterisks...
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I agree fully.
Keep in mind that Tucker Carlson pulled in over 6 million the other night.
The last time the Dodgers won the World Series, the Republican Presidential candidate won the election.
Does anyone really read NoosWeak?
NO, I didnt think so.
Dodgers’ first World Series championship win since 1988 attracts 12.6 million viewers, much lower than last year’s ratings
I was hearing it’s the repub that win .
Nobody cares except those living in Los Angeles.
04.Red Sox and W re elected
84 Tigers and Reagan re elected
Sweet baby Ray - I didn’t know the world series was even on.
And my gosh what a pile of feces the author just pulled out of their a-
But anyway, I don’t think so, Sunshine.
‘I thought every time the Dodgers won the WS during an election year a republican won the WH.’
1988 is the only year that happened...
“If a ballgame is played and no one sees, did they really play?”
ask the Big Ten...
The Dodgers had won the World Series only 6 times before this year, and in 5 of those years there was no Presidential election. 1988 is the only time they won in an election year and the Republican candidate won the Presidency in that year.
If no one watched the World Series, did it take place?
Grasping for straws!
I dunno, but I do drive a Dodge Grand Caravan - if that helps!!
At what point will poor attendance begin having an adverse affect on salaries??
Well, that’s it. I’m staying home. No point going to the polls. /sarc
What do we expect from Newweak?
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