🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Attracts Over 50 Million Audience Members Across the US, Canada and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting 11-inning contest that saw the Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays by one run attracted a combined 51M viewers across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese markets. MLB reported this is the highest-rated World Series finale since the 1991 edition contest featuring the Twins and Braves. Television Viewership Details The Saturday memorable contest averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox channels, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated program of the previous week. It additionally is the most-watched World Series game since the 2017 final game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This marks a 16% improvement over the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 ranked fourth, Game 4 ranked 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and the third game landed in thirteenth place. International Audience Numbers In Canada, the game averaged 11.6 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English-language broadcast in Canada after the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding game began at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12M. This followed last Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up a single run in six frames – drew 13.1 million spectators, making it the most-watched World Series game on a single network in the country. Series Averages and Trends The full seven-match World Series recorded 15.71M viewers on the Fox network, a two percent increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This represents the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has seen viewership growth for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the complete US average was 16.1M. The overall Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew over 8 million watchers, an eight percent rise over last year and Fox’s best playoff ratings since 2017. MLB reported that the Fall Classic was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four broadcasting partners in 16 different tongues.