World Series Television Ratings
This is a list of television ratings for Major League Baseball's (MLB) World Series since 1984. Only United States audience totals are included, not Canadian television ratings, although the 1992 and 1993 World Series were highly watched in Canada.
The most watched World Series game in history was Game 7 in 1986, as the New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox at Shea Stadium in New York City. The game had a 55% share. This broke the record established two nights before in which 52% of televisions in use in the US were tuned in to see the Mets' famous Game 6 comeback that forced a Game 7.
The least watched World Series game in history was in 2008, as only 9.8 million people watched the third game of the series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays; a rain delay moved the start of the game to after 10 p.m. on the East Coast with the game not ending until 1:47 a.m. It had an all-time low rating of 6.1, matched later by Game 3 in 2012 between the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers.
The least watched World Series was in 2012, which was a four-game series that averaged a 7.6 rating and 12 share.
Read more about World Series Television Ratings: Table of World Series Television Ratings, By Year, 1984 - Present, References
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