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This is an excerpt from a story by ESPN..
"Fox Sports' telecasts of the New York Yankees' five-game victory over the cross-city Mets produced the lowest-rated World Series in history, drawing big audiences in the Big Apple but in few other major TV markets.
The games averaged a 12.4 national rating and 21 share, down 22.5 percent from last year and 12 percent from 1998's previous record low.
Both the rating and share are less than half of what they were in 1986, the last time the Mets played in the World Series. Each rating point represents a little more than 1 million television households; share is the percentage of in-use TVs tuned to a program."
"Fox Sports' telecasts of the New York Yankees' five-game victory over the cross-city Mets produced the lowest-rated World Series in history, drawing big audiences in the Big Apple but in few other major TV markets.
The games averaged a 12.4 national rating and 21 share, down 22.5 percent from last year and 12 percent from 1998's previous record low.
Both the rating and share are less than half of what they were in 1986, the last time the Mets played in the World Series. Each rating point represents a little more than 1 million television households; share is the percentage of in-use TVs tuned to a program."
