World Series TV ratings average drops 32% below previous low

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Steve Timko

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Oct 28, 2020, 9:37:23 PM10/28/20
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Tom Wolper

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Oct 29, 2020, 9:56:19 AM10/29/20
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 9:37 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

This fall I have seen a few tweets from people tracking sports media showing that ratings for all live sports are down sharply. As tempting as it is to look at the deficiencies of a single sport, it's an across-the-board phenomenon.

PGage

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Oct 29, 2020, 5:22:16 PM10/29/20
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No doubt. 

The regular season mostly functions as a advertisement for the playoffs and championships for televised sports. With curtailed regular seasons, playoff ratings took a hit.

Will be interesting to see ratings for Super Bowl thus year.

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Tom Wolper

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Oct 29, 2020, 6:38:54 PM10/29/20
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 5:22 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:
No doubt. 

The regular season mostly functions as a advertisement for the playoffs and championships for televised sports. With curtailed regular seasons, playoff ratings took a hit.

Will be interesting to see ratings for Super Bowl thus year.

Here's from one tweet from Oct 1:

Viewership trends: NBA Finals Game 1: -45% to all-time low
Stanley Cup Final: -61% to 13-year low
U.S. Open (golf) final round: -56% to all-time low
Kentucky Derby: -43% to all-time low
Indy 500: -32% to all-time low
All of them May and June events moved to August and September.

In other words I wouldn't look to anything intrinsic in baseball to explain the drop in viewers.

Jim Ellwanger

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Oct 29, 2020, 6:46:26 PM10/29/20
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MLB fandom is local in a way that NFL fandom is not, so I was curious about the World Series ratings in the metropolitan areas involved, and found them in this Associated Press story: https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2020/10/29/world-series-tv-ratings-average-drops-32-percent-below-previous-low/

The overall ratings were a 21.2 rating/40 share in Los Angeles, and a 15.2 rating/29 share in the Tampa Bay area.

Game 6 presumably got the highest ratings of the series, and it had a 27.5 rating/48 share in Los Angeles, and an 18.2 rating/33 share in the Tampa Bay area.

The article compared Game 6 with each team's previous World Series final game (a loss for both teams): the Dodgers in 2017 got a 36.7 rating/56 share in Los Angeles for Game 7, and Game 5 in 2008 got a 29.8 rating/42 share locally for the Rays.


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