Why Dodgers-Rays World Series Might Be Latest to Strike Out in TV Ratings
There aren’t many assurances in these COVID-era days of 2020, but as the World Series throws its first pitch on Tuesday, we can be assured of two things: Either Los Angeles or Tampa Bay will be celebrating its second major sports championship in less than a month, and the TV ratings will be down, potentially to a record-low. Hey, it’s not us hating on the Tampa Bay Rays and their relative anonymity to the wider sports-viewing audience. Even LeBron James and Tom Brady haven’t been immune to the ratings struggles across the board in 2020, where the coronavirus pandemic has wrecked the sports calendar. The World Series has already been on a ratings erosion; the five least-watched World Series have all come in the 2000s, with four of those in the most recent decade. The San Francisco Giants’ sweep of the Detroit Tigers in 2012 remains the low-water mark with 12.64 million viewers, numbers that would look far more favorable in 2020. Also Read: CBS' Tuesday Night Football Ratings Double Clare Crawley's 'The Bachelorette' Debut Consider this: The NBA Finals lost nearly half of its audience for is pandemic-delayed series for an obviously-record low of 7.4 million average over its six...
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