World Series Ratings: 14.6 Million Watch, Down 17% From 2007

The Live Feed (Hollywood Reporter):

Two shows given full-season pickups despite modest ratings went different directions Wednesday night, while CBS' comedy block hit a season high.

Fox won the night with the first game of the World Series, Philadelphia at Tampa Bay (14.6 million, 4.8 rating, adults 18-49). The match gave Fox its highest-rated Wednesday since the "American Idol" finale, yet was down 17% in the adult demo from last year's Rockies vs. Red Sox Game 1 (and down 14% among total viewers).

With the Phillies winning Game 1, Fox Sports notes that it becomes more likely the Series will extend beyond four games. Only once in the last 40 years has the visiting team won Game 1 and gone on to sweep the Series.

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Comments

[ScandalousCandice3]

04:16 PM on 10/24/2008

No one cares. It's sad but it was a lot more exciting when underdog teams like Colorado got to the world Series. A year before Colorado went to the world series, you could buy tickets to seem the for 5 bucks. Nose bleed seats, but my nephew caught a pop up ball when we were there.

[sammdphd]

03:11 PM on 10/24/2008

baseball is so boring that i fell asleep half way through this article

[DirtyDawg]

11:00 AM on 10/24/2008

Ratings for anything on a network owned by Rupert Murdock can't possibly get low enough to suit me. I hope they crash and burn...I hope they lose billions...and I hope that Dion Sanders shows up in the victorious Rays locker room for the victory celebration and dumps a bucket of Gatorade on Tim McCarver.

[yankeefan771]

01:06 AM on 10/24/2008

To bad though that MLB isn't the NBA where the refs purposely make calls to favor the more marketable teams. I.E. Los Angles Lakes vs Sacramento Kings Game Six 2001 Western Conference Finals.

[ZenSufi]

09:41 PM on 10/23/2008

Whenever the Phillies win the World Series, the Republicans win the election.

[Emlyn]

09:18 PM on 10/23/2008

I think its the election.

[blair771999]

08:26 PM on 10/23/2008

I'm happy my team is in the WS.Go Phillies.

[HappyChick]

07:57 PM on 10/23/2008

People still watch baseball?

[redsox14]

10:48 AM on 10/30/2008

yea like 500 million people worldwide do...............

[pizzmoe]

06:59 PM on 10/23/2008

If you're a baseball fan, these are great teams to watch

[Hondu]

06:27 PM on 10/23/2008

It should have been the Dodgers and Red Sox. Ratings would have gone thru the roof.

[commentguy1234]

06:16 PM on 10/23/2008

Also down, World Series teams worth watching. By 100%.