🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Attracts 51 Million Viewers Across the United States, Canadian and Japan Regions. The nail-biting extended clash where the Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays by one run drew a aggregate 51M spectators in the US, Canada, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball announced this represents the highest-rated World Series Game 7 after the 1991 edition contest featuring the Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Details Last Saturday’s epic contest secured over 27 million audience members on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated program of the week. It additionally stands as the top-rated World Series matchup since the 2017 edition final game between the Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This represents a sixteen percent increase compared to the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed fourth, the fourth game was seventh, the fifth game came in eighth, and the third game finished in thirteenth place. International Audience Figures In the Canadian market, the climactic game recorded over 11 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports. This was the most-watched English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final contest began at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it attracted 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which Fall Classic MVP Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – drew 13.1 million spectators, making it the most-watched World Series matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Totals and Patterns The entire seven-match World Series averaged 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This marks the first time after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen viewership increases for two straight years. Including the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the complete US viewership was 16.1 million. The overall World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1M in Canada. The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels drew over 8 million watchers, an 8% increase over the previous year and the network’s strongest playoff performance since 2017. Major League Baseball announced that the World Series was broadcast in 203 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in 16 different tongues.