🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Draws Over 50 Million Audience Members Across the United States, Canadian and Japan Markets. The nail-biting extended matchup where the Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a combined 51M watchers across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese markets. MLB announced this represents the highest-rated World Series finale after the 1991 edition showdown between the Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s memorable game averaged 27.33M viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It also stands as the top-rated World Series game since the 2017 edition final game involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which drew over 29 million. This marks a sixteen percent improvement over the last finale between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 ranked fourth, Game 4 was 7th, the fifth game was 8th, and the third game landed in 13th place. Global Audience Figures In the Canadian market, the climactic game drew 11.6 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English-language program in the country after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final contest began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which Fall Classic MVP Yamamoto gave up a single run in six frames – drew over 13 million spectators, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic game on a sole broadcaster in the country. Overall Totals and Trends The entire seven-game World Series drew over 15.7 million viewers on the Fox network, a 2% rise from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This marks the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience increases for two consecutive seasons. Counting the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the complete American average was 16.1M. The overall World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09 million watchers, an 8% increase compared to last year and the network’s best playoff performance after the 2017 season. Major League Baseball stated that the World Series was broadcast in 203 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in 16 different tongues.