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ALCS ratings highest since before strike

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Posted: Wednesday October 14, 1998 08:37 PM

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC's coverage of the AL championship series between Cleveland and New York was the highest for any league championship series since before the baseball strike.

NBC averaged a 9.4 rating for the six games, 6 percent higher than the network's coverage of last year's NLCS in the same time slot. A ratings point represents 994,000 households.

The rating was 13 percent higher than Fox's ALCS coverage last year and 12 percent higher than NBC's coverage in 1996.

Tuesday night's decisive Game 6 posted a 12.9 national rating, down 1 percent from the Florida-Atlanta game last year.

In 1995, the league championship series were shown regionally as part of the failed baseball network involving ABC and NBC. The two series combined to average a 13.1 rating.

CBS posted a 10.7 rating in 1993 for the Toronto-Chicago series, the last year before the 1994 strike. This year's rating was higher than the 8.7 and 9.2 that CBS got in 1991 and 1992.

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