{"id":246646,"date":"2025-10-28T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:55:08","slug":"game-1-of-world-series-draws-record-7-million-canadian-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246646\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 1 of World Series draws record 7 million Canadian viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The Blue Jays\u2019 11-4 win over the Dodgers in Game 1 of the World Series was watched \u201cby an average of seven million Canadians,\u201d which is \u201cmore than one-sixth of the entire population of Canada,\u201d according to Richard Deitsch of THE ATHLETIC. Game 2 \u201cclocked in at 6.6 million viewers.\u201d Game 1 is now the most-watched Blue Jays game ever per average viewer, while Game 2 ranks second. Toronto\u2019s win over the Mariners in ALCS Game 7 \u201caveraged six million viewers and peaked at 8.3 million.\u201d The previous Blue Jays viewership high before this year\u2019s World Series was Game 6 of the 2015 ALCS against the Royals, which averaged 5.1 million viewers. Sportsnet estimated that the first two games of the 2025 World Series \u201creached 15.9 million viewers\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6755062\/2025\/10\/27\/tv-ratings-blue-jays-world-series-game-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6755062\/2025\/10\/27\/tv-ratings-blue-jays-world-series-game-1\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 10\/27<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">THE REAL MVP: The GLOBE &amp; MAIL\u2019s Marty Klinkenberg wrote Sportnet\u2019s Hazel Mae \u201crelishes her role\u201d as part of the network\u2019s broadcast team. Over the past 10 years, she has become its \u201cmost valuable player.\u201d Mae is a \u201cblur as she goes about her duties &#8212; dashing between dugouts to interview coaches, managers and players, writing her own scripts and providing dispatches from the field during games.\u201d When she started, there were \u201cfew women in similar positions that she could look to as role models.\u201d Now she has \u201cbecome one.\u201d Mae: \u201cAs a woman I feel there is extra pressure on me to get things right. There are a lot of naysayers, and I don\u2019t want to make an error that proves them right\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/baseball\/article-blue-jays-world-series-dodgers-hazel-mae-sportsnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/baseball\/article-blue-jays-world-series-dodgers-hazel-mae-sportsnet\/\">GLOBE &amp; MAIL, 10\/26<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays\u2019 11-4 win over the Dodgers in Game 1 of the World Series was watched \u201cby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}