World Baseball Classic title game draws record-shattering 10.8 million viewers
The New York Times • • sports
Key Points:
- Venezuela won its first World Baseball Classic title with a 3-2 victory over the United States in Tuesday’s championship game.
- The game set a viewership record for the event, attracting 10.784 million viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes, with a peak of 12.148 million.
- Venezuela’s win drew more than double the viewers of the 2023 final between Japan and the U.S., which had 4.48 million viewers.
- The 2023 Japan-U.S. final remains among the top six most-watched WBC games, with the other top five all occurring in the current tournament.
- The 2024 WBC saw a 156% increase in average English-language viewership
