WS Has Lowest Ratings Ever

[BuckFoston]

"The 2008 World Series was a home run in Philadelphia, but it scored a big, fat K in the ratings scorebook nationwide.That's the strikeout symbol, sports fans, and, undermined by Saturday's rain-delayed Game 3 marathon that didn't end until Sunday morning, this year's Phillies-Tampa Bay matchup had the lowest national ratings ever for a World Series. The margin wasn't close.Meanwhile, 33.6 million people watched Barack Obama's paid half-hour presentation on seven networks Wednesday, two million more than watched the highest-rated episode of any regular series last season, the May finale of American Idol.With 25.5 million broadcast viewers, Obama's infomercial scored higher ratings than regularly scheduled Wednesday-at-8 programming on two of the three big networks that carried it, CBS and NBC, picking up an additional eight million viewers on cable, including 3.5 million Spanish speakers on Univision.In baseball ratings news, only 6.1 percent of TV households nationwide watched Game 3, which didn't end until 1:47 a.m. Sunday, making it the lowest-rated Series game of all time

'08 Series a loser in TV ratings | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/31/2008

[HollywoodLeo]

Eh, who cares.

That's to be expected when two teams that the casual viewer doesn't even know exist plays each other, and then it's riddled by rain delays.

Any real baseball fan enjoyed the series. I know I enjoyed what little of it I was able to watch.

(Here comes mofo with a lecture on how you're not allowed to enjoy a playoff sporting event unless your favorite team is in it.)

[DirtyKash]

MLB cares. And FOX cares.

[HollywoodLeo]

Like I said. Who cares?

[DirtyKash]

MLB and FOX.

[HollywoodLeo]

The implication in the question is that I'm asking who, amongst those that are important, cares.

I understand MLB and FOX want to make money, but real baseball fans enjoyed the series and that's all that should matter. (Even though I know it isn't all that matters in the grand scheme of things.)

[GiantsFanatic]

Why should MLB and FOX care? They have no control over it, unless David Stern is running MLB.

[ghettochild]

they should stop showing games in primetime, obviously its not working.

also stop using fox. go back to abc or cbs.

[realmofotalk]

(Here comes mofo with a lecture on how you're not allowed to enjoy a playoff sporting event unless your favorite team is in it.)

When I did say you're not allowed to enjoy the playoffs?

Now, the idea of living vicariously through another team in the playoffs, like the Rays, while yours is sitting at home, is worthy of ridicule in a smack discussion.

Oh, wait, that's your line.

[Kingdom]

NosterdamusLeo!

Good for Fox losing out, no one cares about them except ten year old girls and DK who watch American Mydol.

[brewcrewrock]

wait....but this world series was MUCH better than the last few world series wich have just been 4 game sweeps! I accually liked the rain delay, made it last longer. It was quite a good 5 games we saw (except for game 3)

[Kingdom]

The series could have gone 7 and the ratings would still have been bad. There's no market for Tampa. Some people don't even realize the NL still exists.

[brewcrewrock]

I agre with leo on this one, who cares if other people who don't follow baseball daily didn't watch the series. Any real fan would have watched the series, i watched it and enjoyed it.

[Porter]

'08 Series a loser in TV ratings | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/31/2008

blah, blah, blah

[love_that_reefer]

Fox didn't lose any money so they are doing just fine. I enjoyed this series even though I rooted for an AL team for the first time to only have them lose. Philly is a storied franchise and have a lot of good talent for baseball to market around now. Philly got them a championship! They will attract more fans and the Rays brought new fans on board with their magical run.