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Yankees-A's draws 5.9 national rating
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first prime-time baseball playoff game on Fox this season drew higher TV ratings than a year ago. The Oakland Athletics' 5-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 1 of their AL Division Series Wednesday night drew a 5.9 national rating. That's 11 percent higher than the 5.3 Fox had for Game 2 of the division series between the same teams in 2000 -- which at the time was the worst prime-time baseball postseason number for the network since it started airing games in 1996. NBC aired Game 1 of that series last year, drawing only a 3.7, up against the first presidential debate between George W. Bush and Al Gore. It was the lowest-rated Division Series game ever on a network. Each rating point represents a little more than 1 million television households. This is the first season under Fox's $2.5 billion deal for exclusive TV rights to postseason baseball from 2001-06. The contract includes the All-Star Game and some regular season games.
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