Reinforcing one of its live-sports tentpoles, Fox Sports has reached a 10-year, multi-platform extension with Major League Baseball.
The deal keeps the World Series on Fox, which has broadcast it every year since 1996, and will step up the number of regular- and post-season games on the network starting in 2022. The…
Among late-night hosts tackling President Donald Trump’s reaction to last week’s violence, Jimmy Kimmel blasted POTUS for his response when asked if he would pull back on media attacks in wake of bombs sent to CNN.
Trump insisted he has toned down his rhetoric and boasted he could actually tone it up because the…
UPDATED with final World Series ratings, other broadcast shows: The second to last episode of The Walking Dead with Andrew Lincoln was on, but America went out to the ball game last night as the Boston Red Sox won the World Series and the New Orleans Saints pummeled the Minnesota Vikings on the NFL and NBC's Sunday Nig…
UPDATE:Â Fox claims 13,564,000 viewers tuned in to Game 4 of the World Series, projecting to its fifth straight nightly win in prime time, with the total audience peaking at 16,772,000. Fox averaged an audience of 14,146,000 across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox Streaming platforms.
Game 4 was the most-watched game on Fox…
UPDATED WITH FINAL NUMBERS:Â The 18-inning drama between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night goosed the World Series ratings on two Fox platforms.
While television scored 13,251,000 fans for prime time –Â down 4% from Game 2 – Fox Deportes and Fox Sports Digital celebrated increases.
Fox…
Baseball fans on Twitter were livid on Friday night, as DirecTV in Phoenix experienced technical difficulties that took the service offline in the 10th inning of the World Series.
Fox Sports leaped into the breach, reminding fans that a live stream was available on the Fox Sports app.The crucial game three of the…
UPDATED with additional broadcast ratings: The World Series was dark Thursday as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox relocated to the City of Angels for tonight's Game 3, but Fox had a pretty good night anyway in baseball's absence with a rising Thursday Night Football.
Taking the top spot in the demo and total…
UPDATE 4:20 PM: The World Series is taking a night off as the 2-0 Boston Red Sox and the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers move America’s pastime out West after Game 1 and Game 2 in Beantown.
With Game 3 set for tomorrow night in the City of Angels, the final numbers from last night’s Game 2 reveal that Fox is also…
UPDATE, 3:55 PM: Game 2 of the 2018 World Series is about to start very soon but the final numbers of last night's Boston Red Sox's winning Game 1 certainly show some room for improvement, at least over the past few years.
Scoring a 3.7/17 rating among adults 18-49 and 13.8 million viewers, the almost four hour game…
UPDATED with finals: With Roseanne’s fate revealed in the series premiere of The Conners last week and the second episode facing Game 1 of the World Series, there was an inevitable Week 2 drop for the family comedy, though ABC probably hoped for a smaller decline. ABC’s lineup was the only one to post major…
The Los Angeles DodgersWorld Series ticket-punching 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series outslugged all others on TV on Saturday, scoring a 4.9 overnight rating on Fox Sports 1.
The game — highlighted by stellar pitching from rookie starter Walker Buehler…
The Los Angeles Dodgers are going back to the World Series, knocking off the upstart Milwaukee Brewers tonight 5-1 in a sudden-death Game 7 in the National League Championship Series. That victory gives them the right to face the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, which starts Tuesday.
Riding a three-run home run in…
