TV Ratings: Sports Helps Fox Win The Week

The Washington Nationals’ comeback win in the World Series helped baseball avoid a dubious record, according to The Associated Press citing Nielsen data.

The series’ seventh and deciding game reached 23.2 million people, eclipsing even “Sunday Night Football” and enabling the Series to average just under 14 million viewers per game, the Nielsen company said. The last game drew nearly 7 million more viewers than any of the other games.

Through five games, the series was on pace to be the least-watched Fall Classic ever.

Showtime did not immediately have ratings for the series finale of “The Affair” on Sunday but said the episode had the best-ever numbers of the five-year series in streaming and on-demand platforms.

Fox won the week in prime time, averaging 9.8 million viewers. NBC had 7.1 million viewers, CBS had 6.1 million, ABC had 3.8 million, ION Television and Telemundo both had 1.21 million, Univision had 1.17 million and the CW had 780,000.

⏩ Broadcast Prime-time for Oct. 28-Nov. 3:

1. World Series Game 7: Washington at Houston, Fox, 23.22 million.
2. NFL Football: New England at Baltimore, NBC, 22.03 million.
3. World Series Game 6: Washington at Houston, Fox, 16.55 million.
4. “NFL Pregame Show,” NBC, 15.7 million.
5. NFL Football: San Francisco at Atlanta, Fox, 14.28 million.
6. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 12.19 million.
7. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.04 million.
8. NFL Football: Miami at Pittsburgh, ESPN, 10.42 million.
9. “NFL Pregame Show,” Fox, 8.5 million.
10. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 8.19 million.

11. “NCIS,” CBS, 8.19 million.
12. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.96 million.
13. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 7.95 million.
14. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 7.61 million.
15. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.46 million.
16. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 7.13 million.
17. “This is Us,” NBC, 6.78 million.
18. “Bull,” CBS, 6.66 million.
19. “God Friended Me,” CBS, 6.49 million.
20. “Dancing with the Stars,” ABC, 6.43 million.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.7 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” was second with 7.9 million, and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.6 million viewers.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.6 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 2.3 million, MSNBC had 1.77 million, Hallmark had 1.51 million and TLC had 1.12 million.

⏩ Basic Cable Top 5 – Prime Time (Total Viewers)

1. Fox News (2,672,000)
2. ESPN (2,329,000)
3. MSNBC (1,812,000)
4. Hallmark Channel (1,481,000)
5. TLC (1,085,000)
6. HGTV (997,000)
7. CNN (884,000)
8. Discovery (847,000)
9. A&E (846,000)
10. History (795,000)

⏩ Cable News Rankings (Total Viewers)

1. FNC ranked No. 1 in Prime Time (2,672,000) and No. 1 in Total Day (1,518,000)
2. MSNBC ranked No. 3 in Prime Time (1,812,000) and No. 2 in Total Day (1,074,000)
3. CNN ranked No. 7 in Prime Time (884,000) and No. 5 in Total Day (665,000)

⏩ Basic cable ranker: on Scribd