{"id":632537,"date":"2026-03-19T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:09:19","slug":"world-baseball-classic-final-draws-record-tv-viewership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632537\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic final draws record TV viewership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The finale of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/manfred-marvels-at-rapid-growth-of-world-baseball-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/manfred-marvels-at-rapid-growth-of-world-baseball-classic\/\">World Baseball Classic<\/a> featuring Venezuela-U.S. attracted an audience rivaling some of the bigger MLB postseason figures, as Fox and Fox Deportes drew a combined audience of 10.8 million viewers Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">That\u2019s easily the best WBC audience yet, and it\u2019s well above the 4.5 million or so that watched Japan-U.S. on FS1 in 2023. On Fox alone, Venezuela-U.S. drew 10.2 million viewers. That audience peaked at 12.1 million from 10:30-10:45pm ET. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Just based on the English-language Fox audience, Venezuela-U.S. was better than any non-World Series MLB game last season, including Game 7 of the Blue Jays-Mariners ALCS on Fox\/FS1 (8.9 million). The WBC finale also topped six of the seven NBA Finals games last season. It was also better than what ESPN drew for the Canada-U.S. finale at the 4 Nations Face-Off last year (9.3 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finale of the World Baseball Classic featuring Venezuela-U.S. attracted an audience rivaling some of the bigger MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,6665,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":["post-632537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-fox-sports","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116258364662445091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}