Boston's 8-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday drew an 8.6 national rating, a 14 share and 14.4 million viewers. The rating was up 13% from the 7.6/12 for San Francisco's 8-3 victory over Detroit last year, which was a record low for a World Series opener.
With Red Sox In World Series, Ratings Up
BOSTON (AP) — With the Boston Red Sox back in the World Series, television ratings jumped for the opener.
Boston’s 8-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals drew an 8.6 national rating, a 14 share and 14.4 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday.
The rating was up 13 percent from the 7.6/12 for San Francisco’s 8-3 victory over Detroit last year, which was a record low for a World Series opener. Wednesday night’s game was seen by 14.4 million viewers, an 18 percent increase from 12.2 million last year and the most-watched Series opener since the Giants’ 11-7 win over Texas in 2010 was seen by 15 million.
Wednesday’s game peaked with 16.9 million viewers during the second inning, when the Red Sox scored twice and took a 5-0 lead.
The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program, and the share is the percentage tuned to a broadcast among the TV households with sets on at the time.
Comments (2)
Annette Garcia says:
October 25, 2013 at 8:37 am
Wrote the whole article and ONE passing, nothing mention of the best, classiest and most exciting baseball entity – The St. Lois Cardinals. Up yours AP.
Wagner Pereira says:
October 25, 2013 at 10:20 am
I can make SO many comments given the name BRITE Blonde. St. Lois? Wasn’t she Superman’s Girl Friend who worked at the Daily Planet? Wrote or Read the whole article? Guess you did not get to the second line…..Congrats, you could supposedly read it with ONE passing, but suggest you try a SECOND time. And if this was a Brite Blonde, I’d hate to see the post from a Dumb Blonde.