🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Attracts 51 Million Viewers Across the United States, Canada and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting extra-inning contest that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run drew a total 51 million watchers in the US, Canada, and Japan territories. MLB stated this is the highest-rated Fall Classic Game 7 since the 1991 showdown featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Viewership Details Last Saturday’s epic contest drew over 27 million audience members on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally stands as the top-rated World Series matchup since the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This represents a 16% increase compared to the last Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed 4th, the fourth game was seventh, Game 5 came in eighth, and Game 3 landed in 13th position. Global Viewership Numbers In Canada, the game averaged over 11 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English program in the country after the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding game started at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – recorded 13.1 million spectators, making it the most-watched Fall Classic game on a single network in the country. Overall Totals and Trends The full seven-match World Series recorded 15.71M viewers on the Fox network, a two percent rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen viewership growth for two straight years. Including the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the complete US average reached 16.1M. The total Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1M in Canada. The full MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 recorded 8.09 million viewers, an 8% increase over the previous year and Fox’s strongest postseason performance after 2017. MLB stated that the Fall Classic was broadcast in over 200 countries and territories by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 different tongues.