LOS ANGELES: Baseball was especially good for Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the youth TV season.
The series made a comeback from last year’s competition, which decimated an all-time viewership, which was attributed to the pandemic and competition from the 2020 presidential election.
According to Tuesday’s figures, the Houston Astros should win Sunday over the Atlanta Braves, then go 3-1 on the series to be the standout so far in a potential seven-game series.
The 9-5 Astros win drew 13.6 million viewers, a 35% jump over the 10 million that saw the Tampa Bay Rays lose Game 5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers of 2020.
Last year, the Dodgers scored a six-game win over the Rays, which posted TV ratings 32% below the previous World Series low, a four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers’ San Francisco Giants in 2012.
Bragging rights also went to football and NBC last week, with NFL regular season games earning the top two spots for the week.
Overall, Fox averaged 11.9 million viewers in prime time, followed by NBC with 5.4 million viewers. CBS had 3.9 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, ION Television had 970,000 and Telemundo had 930,000.
Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable channel in prime time with an average of 2.21 million viewers. It was followed by ESPN with 2.17 million, Hallmark with 1.28 million, MSNBC with 1.11 million, and HGTV with 857,000.
ABC World News Tonight led the evening news ratings contest with an average of 8.1 million viewers. NBC Nightly News had 70 million and CBS Evening News had 5.2 million.
For the week of October 25-31, the top 20 prime-time events, their networks and viewership:
NFL Football: Green Bay in Arizona, Fox, 20.3 million.
NFL Football: Dallas, 15.7 million in Minnesota, NBC.
MLB World Series Game 5, Fox, 13.6 million.
OT, Fox, 13.3 million.
MLB Pregame (Sunday), Fox, 12.5 million.
NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 11.8 million.
MLB World Series Game 3, Fox, 11.2 million.
NFL Football: New Orleans in Seattle, ESPN, 11.19 million.
MLB World Series Game 1, Fox, 10.8 million.
MLB World Series Game 4, Fox, 10.5 million.
NFL Pregame (Thursday), Fox, 10.46 million.
MLB World Series Game 2, Fox, 10.3 million.
NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 9.2 million.
Young Sheldon, CBS, 7.2 million.
60 Minutes, CBS, 7.11 million.
Saturday Night Football: Penn State, 7.1 million at Ohio State, ABC.
The Voice (Monday), NBC, 6.9 million.
Chicago Fire, NBC, 6.801 million.
Chicago Med, NBC, 6.8 million.
The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.7 million.
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