This article was written prior to last night’s game so it’s possible 300 million people watched last night. Despite that possible outlier, your sport is dying. Wake up.
Fox Sports is averaging 3.28 million viewers for the postseason so far, down 37 percent from 2017 — again, thanks in large part to the relative lack of major-market teams compared to a year ago. The average Nielsen market rank of the four cities in the AL Division Series last year — Boston, Houston, New York and Cleveland — was 9.25. For the National League this year (Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Denver and Atlanta) it’s 16, and the home markets encompass about 3.2 million fewer TV households.
Source: Baseball Playoff Ratings Are Down: Blame the Yankees and Cubs | Hollywood Reporter
