World Series TV ratings increasing by the game

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Television viewership for Game 3 of the World Series once again was down from last year but continues to exceed audience levels going back to the Yankees' last series appearance in 2009.

Friday's game had a Nielsen rating of 8.8 and was seen by an average audience of 15.658 million viewers on Fox Broadcasting. With Spanish-language and mobile viewing included, the audience averaged 16.163 million.

Fox said this is the first series since 1999 that has shown viewership increases from Game 1 to Game 2 and from Game 2 to Game 3.

Game 3 of the Cubs-Indians series last year had an 11.0 rating and an average audience of 19.384 million viewers. Fox averaged 13.2 million viewers for Game 3 of Royals-Mets in 2015 and 12.1 million for Game 3 of Royals-Giants in 2014. It also topped the 15.397 million viewers for Yankees-Phillies in 2009 but trailed the 9.1 rating for that game.

Audiences in Houston continued to climb for Game 3, which had a 33.3 rating and 55 share on KRIV (Channel 26), the highest rating thus far in Houston for the series. The game had a 24.2 rating and 44 share in Los Angeles.