Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dutch. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this episode, we're going to do some media roundtable talk. I bring in one of the regulars, John Lewis, founder and editor of Sports Media Watch.

Hello, John.

Hey, how's it going?

Going well. Thank you for popping on.

You know, it's a little bit past Game 7, but I did want to start just by doing sort of a,

you know, a big broad overview of the World Series viewership numbers because they're pretty extraordinary.

Game 7 ends with 27.3 million viewers across Fox and all of its platforms in terms of a

viewership average.

That's the most watch World Series since Game 7 in 2017 between the Astros and the Dodgers.

The entire series average is 15.7.1 million viewers.

Best World Series average since 2017 beats the Yankees Dodgers five games series from

the year before.

I'll get into the Canadian, Japanese viewership after that.

But John, you know, like sometimes like when it does come to a game seven, like in certain sports,

maybe hockey and baseball, it's not always like, you know, guaranteed slam dunk.

And on this one, it was a Canadian market.

And so, you know, like before the series started, if you would have said this is going

seven games, what do you think game seven will be? There's no chance I would have ever guessed.

Well, it'll draw 27 million viewers and change and so. But it was an extraordinary series,

incredibly entertaining. And Fox and baseball got as good a story as they possibly could have.

When you,

now that you have digested and seen all the numbers,

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