🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Draws Over 50 Million Viewers In the United States, Canadian and Japanese Markets. The exciting extended contest that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays 5-4 averaged a aggregate 51 million viewers across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball announced this marks the highest-rated World Series finale since the 1991 edition showdown between the Twins and Braves. Television Viewership Details Last Saturday’s epic contest secured over 27 million audience members on Fox channels, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to Nielsen, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the week. It additionally is the most-watched World Series matchup since the 2017 final game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This marks a 16% increase over the last finale featuring the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked 4th, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and Game 3 landed in thirteenth position. Global Audience Figures In the Canadian market, the game recorded 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding game started at 9 PM local time, it drew 12M. This came after the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – averaged 13.1M spectators, making it the most-watched World Series matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Totals and Patterns The entire seven-game series recorded over 15.7 million audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded audience increases for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the complete US viewership was over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew over 8 million watchers, an eight percent increase over last year and the network’s best playoff performance after 2017. MLB reported that the Fall Classic was televised in over 200 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 various languages.