Posted on 10/28/2005 7:45:12 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
White Sox-Astros World Series lowest-rated ever Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The Chicago White Sox's first world championship in 88 years was also the lowest-rated World Series ever.
Chicago's four-game sweep of the Houston Astros averaged an 11.1 national rating with a 19 share on Fox. That's down about 7 percent from the previous low, an 11.9 with a 20 share for the 2002 World Series between the Anaheim Angels and the San Francisco Giants.
While the 2002 World Series, which went seven games, rated higher overall, it was only averaging an 11.0 through four games.
This year was a drop of almost 30 percent from last year's series, in which the Boston Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals for their first title in 86 years. That had a 15.8 rating with a 25 share.
Wednesday night's 1-0 Chicago win had a 13.0 preliminary national rating with a 21 share. It was the highest-rated prime-time show on Fox since the final of "American Idol" in May, but still not enough to save the series from being the lowest-rated.
Despite rating so low in comparison to other World Series, the four games of this series were each the highest rated prime-time network programs on their respective nights.
I was never a football fan. Stopped following baseball years ago.
They make folks on the east coast suffer so people on the west coast don't miss the first pitch after they get home from work. It's nuts.
They did but the White Sox arms also had something to do with that.
You're forgetting that football is very television-friendly, too. The TV screen does proper justice to watching the game, and there is enough breaks between plays to have comments from the play announcers (which can be of questionable quality a times!) and also time to squeeze in commercials.
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