{"id":170557,"date":"2025-11-04T03:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/who-watched-world-series-game-7-nearly-half-of-canada-and-more-than-25-million-in-usa-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T03:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:20:05","slug":"who-watched-world-series-game-7-nearly-half-of-canada-and-more-than-25-million-in-usa-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/who-watched-world-series-game-7-nearly-half-of-canada-and-more-than-25-million-in-usa-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who watched World Series Game 7? Nearly half of Canada and more than 25 million in USA &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of Canada&#8217;s population tuned into Game 7 of the World Series at some point, while in the USA, the decisive battle between the <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243 data-autotag=71975c0f-8b3f-4650-915e-eebafe288e15 rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> and <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/238 data-autotag=7f501204-c32c-4970-b406-b3cd4f4a426b rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> drew the largest audience for a Fall Classic game since 2017.<br \/>Rogers Sportsnet says 18.5 million viewers &#8211; or 46% of Canada&#8217;s estimated population of 40.1 million &#8211; tuned into at least a portion of the game. Viewership peaked at 14 million in the bottom of the ninth inning, when the Blue Jays had a chance to win in walk-off fashion.<br \/>Its average audience of 10.9 million was the most-watched English-language broadcast in Canada, outside of the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver.<br \/>The Dodgers went on to <a href=\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2025\/11\/01\/dodgers-blue-jays-world-series-score-live-game-7-highlights\/87038625007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>win in 11 innings<\/a>.<br \/>Meanwhile, the &#8220;fast national&#8221; numbers from Nielsen indicate an audience of 25.5 million tuned into Fox Sports&#8217; broadcast in the USA, the most since Game 7 between the Dodgers and <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/houston-astros\/242 data-autotag=96a60ad9-7c7b-45f5-b553-d35e526b511f rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Houston Astros<\/a> in 2017 drew 28 million.<br \/>That total viewership number will inch closer toward 30 million in coming days as Nielsen, since 2020, has integrated <a href=\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2025\/10\/31\/blue-jays-dodgers-world-series-tv-ratings\/87012711007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>out-of-home metrics<\/a> &#8211; such as watch parties, bars and restaurants &#8211; into its totals.<br \/>Since September, Nielsen has utilized what it calls a &#8220;big data plus panel&#8221; to measure viewership from smart TVs and streaming devices, which has resulted in big increases to college and pro football numbers this autumn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQNXNJdG5fRnYza2x3WUhGUmg3eUYyX2lBaEdIX0ZwUDY5Y3h6Z1FieFphYVZLdWltT1d2akFqbjlwR0JWSFdlRTBnWkNJLUNlb19QZlJobkxvamNpdXAwWWZzUzc3aDdYV3RwcEc2VlNwc0NoemVYbDI5LW5mV1FkWEdJOFh2ZnNOam41Q0x2MmRoenBQM0ViSThnbzE0RFM0NmoyRGVrS3hVT1hNUzY0Qg?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of Canada&#8217;s population tuned into Game 7 of the World Series at some point, while in the USA, the decisive battle between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays drew the largest audience for a Fall Classic game since 2017.Rogers Sportsnet says 18.5 million viewers &#8211; or 46% of Canada&#8217;s estimated population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}