World Series earns Fox a homerun

The biggest news in the broadcast world in the past few weeks has been Fox. The channel is now the leading channel in the country, and the World Series apparently helped keep it on top. EW.com reports the weekly ratings, noting that Fox came out on the top with Games 1, 2 and 4. Game 4 brought in 22.8 million viewers. The closest non-World Series programming to climb that high up the chart was ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, which earned 17.4 million viewers. Impressive, but not enough to supplant the top dog (or is it the top fox?)

Let’s face it: America loves baseball. It always has and probably always will. The popular sport still draws in high numbers, and even without Fox’s high-rated political programming–responsible for some of their highest ratings–sports would hold them aloft. World Series Game 3 was the lowest-rated game, coming in at number seven on the chart and earning just 15.4 million viewers. That’s still not too shabby. You can bet that Fox executives were happy to see those kinds of numbers.

Of course, it’s one thing to watch a game on TV, and another to actually be there. In the future, make sure that you buy World Series tickets at StubHub.com.