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With a Canadian team in the World Series for the first time in 32 years and two rosters filled with star international players, the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One is reaching large global audiences driven by viewership across the United States, Canada, and Japan. Game One of the 2025 World Series by Capital One averaged 32.6 million combined viewers in the United States, Canada and Japan. This marks the largest combined audience for an MLB game from those three countries since Game Seven of the 2016 World Series. The two game average of the three countries combined is 30.5 million viewers. Games One and Two averaged a combined audience of 19.8 million viewers in the U.S. and Canada, which is the largest combined audience from those two countries for the first two games of the World Series since at least 2016 and a +27% increase over last year (15.6 million). In the U.S., the first two games registered 12.5 million viewers across FOX, FOX Deportes, Univision (Game One only), the FOX Sports App and FOX One, the second highest average this decade for the opening two games of the World Series. Game One averaged 13.3 million viewers and Game Two averaged 11.6 million viewers. Games One (7 million) and Two (6.6 million) were the two most-watched Blue Jays games ever on Sportsnet in Canada. The previous record was 6 million average viewers for Game Seven of the 2025 ALCS. The two World Series games combined to reach 15.9 million Canadians on Sportsnet. Game One was also the most-watched MLB game ever on TVA Sports, MLB’s French language television partner in Canada, with an audience of 502,000 average viewers. The two-game average in Canada across both rights holders is 7.2 million viewers with Game One averaging (7.5 million) and Game Two averaging (6.9 million). In Japan despite a 9 a.m. local start time, Game One averaged 11.8 million viewers on NHK-G making it the most-watched World Series game ever in Japan on a single network in the country and the third most-watched World Series game ever. Last year, World Series games in Japan aired on multiple over-the-air networks. Game Two averaged 9.5 million viewers on NHK-BS. The two game viewership average in Japan is 10.7 million viewers. In the U.S., FOX will combine with FOX Deportes, the FOX Sports App and FOX One to cover the World Series with all games scheduled for 8:00 p.m. (ET)/5:00 p.m. (PT), with FOX’s national pregame show beginning at 7:00 p.m. (ET)/4:00 p.m. (PT). Live national radio coverage of all 2025 World Series games will be provided by ESPN Radio in English and Univision Radio in Spanish. MLB Network continues to air extensive on-site coverage throughout the Fall Classic across the Emmy Award-winning MLB Tonight, the Emmy-nominated MLB Central, Emmy-nominated MLB Now and Intentional Talk.
