The ALCS concluded with a bang on FOX.
Angels/Yankees Game 6 drew a 9.3/15 rating and 15.5 million viewers on FOX Sunday night, up 72% and 73%, respectively, from a 5.4/10 and 8.9 million for Red Sox/Rays Game 6 on TBS last year, which aired on a Saturday night.
Last year’s NLCS on FOX did not go to a sixth game. Compared to Game 6 of ’07 ALCS on FOX, Sunday night’s game was up 37% and 39%, respectively, from a 6.8 and 11.2 million for Indians/Red Sox.
Excluding Game 7s, Angels/Yankees Game 6 ranks as the highest rated, most-viewed League Championship Series game since Red Sox/Yankees Game 6 in ’04 (15.6/25, 25.0 mil).
Angels/Yankees Game 6 ranks as the most-viewed non-NFL sporting event since Game 4 of the NBA Finals in June (16.0 mil).
In addition to the 26.4/40 the game drew in New York, the Yankees’ series-clinching victory drew a 15.5/27 in Los Angeles — and a whopping 20.6/31 in Philadelphia.
Overall, the 2009 ALCS averaged a 6.5/12 rating and 10.3 million viewers on FOX, up 41% in ratings and 39% in viewers from last year’s ALCS on TBS (4.6, 7.4 mil), and up 35% and 39%, respectively, from last year’s NLCS on FOX (4.8, 7.4 mil).
Despite the strong ratings, the Yankees/Angels ALCS was down 12% and 10%, respectively, from the 7-game Indians/Red Sox ALCS in ’07 (7.4, 11.5 mil), and ranks as the 8th-least viewed LCS on record.
For comparison’s sake, the 2004 Red Sox/Yankees ALCS — the last to feature the Yankees — averaged an 11.7/20 rating, and the 2003 Yankees/Red Sox ALCS averaged a 10.7/20.
Most-viewed sporting events of 2009
excluding the NFL
| # |
Date
|
Net | Sport | Game |
Viewers
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
Thu., 1/8/09
|
FOX | NCAAF | BCS National Championship, Oklahoma/Florida |
26.8 mil
|
|
2
|
Thu., 1/1/09
|
ABC | NCAAF | Rose Bowl, Penn St./USC |
20.6 mil
|
|
3
|
Mon., 4/6/09
|
CBS | NCAAB | Nat’l Championship Game, North Carolina/Michigan State |
17.6 mil
|
|
4
|
Mon., 1/5/09
|
FOX | NCAAF | Fiesta Bowl, Texas/Ohio State |
17.1 mil
|
|
5
|
Sat., 5/2/09
|
NBC | Horse | Kentucky Derby, race segment |
16.3 mil
|
|
T6
|
Thu., 6/11/09
|
ABC | NBA | NBA Finals, Lakers/Magic Game 4 |
16.0 mil
|
|
T6
|
Sun., 2/15/09
|
FOX | NASCAR | Daytona 500 |
16.0 mil
|
|
8
|
Sun., 10/25/09
|
FOX | MLB | ALCS, Angels/Yankees Game 6 |
15.5 mil
|
|
9
|
Tue., 7/14/09
|
FOX | MLB | 2009 MLB All-Star Game |
14.6 mil
|
|
10
|
Sat., 4/4/09
|
CBS | NCAAB | NCAA Final Four, Villanova/North Carolina |
14.5 mil
|
Source: Fang’s Bites, pifeedback.com
