Primetime baseball on FOX continued to struggle last weekend.
Regional MLB action on FOX earned 2.1 million viewers on FOX last Saturday, down 26% from last year (2.9M) and down 43% from coverage featuring Yankees/Red Sox in 2012 (3.8M). The audience ranks as the third-smallest of the season on FOX, ahead of only coverage on May 24 and May 31 (1.8M both weeks).
Compared to the seventh telecast of last season — primetime coverage on May 25 — viewership declined 5%.
So far this season, all seven MLB telecasts on FOX have had a smaller audience than the comparable windows last year. Six of the seven telecasts have declined by double-digits, and five have declined by at least 20%.
(Sat. numbers from The Futon Critic)
