The Phillies’ win was the biggest comeback by a National League team since 1956, with ratings stagnant the previous year
Fox’s coverage of Game 1 of the World Series – which featured a historic return for the Phillies against the Houston Astros, Largest The premier demo of 18-49 year olds – one of its kind by a National League team since 1956 – hit a home run in both viewership as well as viewership.
On Friday night, the network posted a ratings score of more than five times the figure from a week earlier, jumping the “WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown” number from 0.52 to 2.75. The game also averaged 11.5 million viewers, nearly two million more than Game 1. Last year, which saw record-low viewership for the World Series. ratings steady From last year, in which the initial demo figure for the World Series opener was clocked at 2.3.
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Here’s how the rest of the broadcast networks stack up in ratings:
Following Fox’s win, CBS was second in both ratings and overall average viewership. The network drew 0.43 in demos and an average of 5.2 million viewers, the same as the previous week. At 8 p.m., the broadcast of “SWAT” garnered an average of 4.6 million viewers, as well as 0.41 in ratings. An hour later, “Fire Country” raised the temperature with a rating of 0.47 and an overall average viewership of 5.3 million. The 10 p.m. finale was an episode of “Blue Bloods”, which received 0.41 in the demo and averaged 5.7 million viewers. “SWAT” and “Fire Country” both saw an increase of 4% and 2% in viewership, respectively. Meanwhile, “Blue Bloods” was the most-watched non-sports program of the night.
ABC was in third place in ratings, with an average of 0.41 in demos and 3.8 million in total viewers. An exclusive Diane Sawyer interview with Matthew Perry, who is set to release his much-loved memoir on Tuesday, drew 0.47 in the demo and averaged 4.4 million viewers. ABC’s long-running primetime news program, “20/20,” received 0.38 in ratings and an average total of 3.5 million viewers, marking a slight bump in both demo and viewership, indicating that viewers were Sawyer- Plug-ins can stay in Perry’s follow-up. Interview.
NBC was fourth in ratings, with 0.23, and with 1.5 million overall average viewers. The game show “Capital One College Bowl” competed for 0.22 in ratings and 1.5 million overall average viewers. An hour later, at 9 p.m. the same episode drew 0.21 in the demo and averaged 1.3 million viewers. At 10 p.m., an episode of “Dateline” drew 0.26 in demos and 1.6 million overall average viewers.
The CW was in fifth place in both ratings and viewership, with between 0.05 and 491,000 viewers in the demo. There was a new episode of “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” at 8 p.m., which received 0.06 in ratings and an overall average viewership of 542,000. 9 p.m., “Whose Line Is Anywhere?” broadcast of. The demo was sketched by 0.05 and an average of 471,000 spectators. Ending at 9:30 p.m. the episode was an repeat, which received a ratings rating of 0.05 and an average total viewership of 409,000.
Among Spanish-language networks, Univision was in the first demo with 0.4 and a total of 1.4 million viewers in primetime. A new installment of the telenovela, “Vensor La Ausenia”, which aired from 8 pm to 9 pm, received a 0.4 demo rating and 1.3 million total viewers. “Los Ricos Tambián Llorán” received a total of 1.5 million viewers on demos 0.4 and 9. The night closed with “La Madrasastra”, which aired in demos from 10 to 11 p.m. 0.4 p.m. and averaged 1.3 million total viewers.
Telemundo finished second in the demo with an average of 0.2 and total viewers. “Exatlón Estados Unidos”, which ran from 7 pm to 9 pm, garnered a 0.2 demo rating and a total of 887,000 viewers. This was followed by an episode of “La Reina del Sur”, which earned a 0.3 demo rating and a total of 992,000 viewers from 9 to 10. “El Fuego del Destino” closed the night with a 0.2 demo rating and 10 to 711,000 total viewers. 11 o’clock
