🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Attracts 51M Audience Members Across the United States, Canadian and Japanese Markets. The nail-biting extra-inning clash where the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run attracted a aggregate over 50 million watchers in the United States, Canada, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this marks the most-watched World Series Game 7 since the 1991 contest featuring the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Ratings Details Last Saturday’s memorable contest secured over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and their streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally is the most-watched World Series game after the 2017 edition final game involving the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged over 29 million. This marks a sixteen percent improvement over the previous Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 placed fourth, Game 4 was 7th, the fifth game came in eighth, and the third game finished in 13th position. Global Viewership Numbers In Canada, the game drew 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports channel. This made it the most-watched English program in Canada after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final contest started at 9 PM in the local time zone, it drew 12M. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – averaged 13.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a sole broadcaster in the country. Series Averages and Trends The entire seven-match series recorded over 15.7 million audience members on Fox, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded viewership growth for two straight seasons. Including the opening game telecast on Univision, the total US viewership was 16.1 million. The overall World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels recorded over 8 million viewers, an 8% rise over the previous year and the network’s best postseason performance after the 2017 season. MLB reported that the Fall Classic was televised in over 200 countries and territories by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 various languages.