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Losing interest? Exciting Fall Classic could set record low for TV ratingsPosted: Sunday October 27, 2002 7:10 PMANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Even though the World Series went seven games, it still may set a record low for televising ratings. Anaheim's thrilling 6-5 comeback win Saturday night received an 11.8 preliminary national rating and 21 share, Nielsen Media Research said Sunday. Despite the Angels' rally from a 5-0 seventh-inning deficit against San Francisco, the rating dropped 14 percent from Game 6 last year, when Arizona's 15-2 rout of the New York Yankees got an 13.8/24. Fox's six-game average of 10.9/19 is 24 percent below the 14.3/24 average for the first six games last year. Arizona's 3-2 victory in Game 7 last year got a 23.5/34, raising its final rating to 15.7/25. Still, that was the third-lowest ever for the World Series, ahead of only the Yankees' five-game win over the Mets in the 2000 Subway Series (12.4) and the Yankees' four-game sweep of San Diego in 1998 (14.1). Fox needed a rating of at least 21 or 22 Sunday night to avoid having this Series finish with the lowest rating ever. The all-California Series between the Angels and Giants has set record lows for an opener (9.4), Game 2 (11.9), Game 3 (10.8), Game 4 (11.8), Game 5 (10.0) and Game 6. Coming into this year, the record low for any game was the 10.4 for last year's opener, which beat the 11.3 for Game 1 in 1997 between Cleveland and Florida. After finishing second to CBS in prime-time Thursday night with San Francisco's 16-4 blowout win in Game 5, Fox won prime time Saturday with an 11.0/20. CBS (6.4/11) was second, followed by NBC (4.2/7) and ABC (2.8/5). Among men 18-34, Game 6 got a 6.8 rating, up 6 percent from last year and the first increase among that group in this year's Series. Saturday night's game got a 36.5 in San Francisco and a 30.6 in Los Angeles.
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