{"id":1674,"date":"2025-11-03T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:21:48","slug":"game-7-draws-monster-numbers-on-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/game-7-draws-monster-numbers-on-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 7 Draws Monster Numbers On Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high drama of Game 7 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\" target=\"_self\">World Series<\/a> proved to be good news for Fox in the ratings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the network, Saturday&#8217;s winner-take-all contest between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays averaged nearly 26 million viewers according to Nielsen&#8217;s panel-only fast national ratings survey.\u00a0 That number is only expected to go up when the full national ratings survey, which also includes smart TV&#8217;s and set top boxes that allow streaming, come out on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">25,984,000 viewers tuned in for the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Dodgers<\/a> back-to-back, dramatic clinch of the Fall Classic across FOX, FOX Deportes and FOX Sports streaming services &#8211; the most since 2017. \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f On FOX, <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldSeries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WorldSeries<\/a> Game 7 peaked with 31,543,000 viewers from 11:30-11:45 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Numbers are\u2026 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xR0CNPh7oV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xR0CNPh7oV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXSportsPR\/status\/1985333701836763393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Over 31 Million Viewers Watched Game 7 At Its Peak<\/h2>\n<h3>Most viewed final game in almost a decade<\/h3>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s number of 25.98 million is the largest audience for a Game 7 of the World Series since 2017, when the Houston Astros beat the Dodgers to win their first championship in franchise history.\u00a0 The game also brought the highest ratings for Fox for a Saturday baseball game in almost 30 years.\u00a0 You have to go back to 1996, when the New York Yankees defeated the Atlanta Braves in <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/NYA\/NYA199610260.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Game 6<\/a> to win their first title in 18 years in front of almost 30.5 million viewers.\u00a0 It far exceeded the next highest Saturday baseball number for the network: 16.7 million viewers for Game 4 between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been over 90 years since a World Series ended on a Saturday, which is normally reserved for college football.\u00a0 But the last college football game to draw more viewers than Saturday&#8217;s matchup was the 1994 Orange Bowl between the Florida Gators and Nebraska Cornhuskers, which took place on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Number also does not include the amount of Canadian viewers who watched the game on Rogers SportsNet, which is expected to be a massive number.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high drama of Game 7 of the World Series proved to be good news for Fox in the ratings. 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