NLCS Game 5 is Second Most-Watched Telecast in FS1 History

MLB 10/21/2016

New York – Thursday night’s National League Championship Series Game 5, in which the Chicago Cubs took a 3-2 series lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers, delivered an average audience of 7,180,000 viewers on FS1, making it the second most-watched telecast in FS1 history, according to fast national figures released by Nielsen Media Research.

Thursday night’s 7,180,000 average audience is up +179% (vs. 2,577,000 viewers) over Game 5 of last year’s American League Championship Series featuring the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals, and up +47% (vs. 4,891,000 viewers) over the 2014 NLCS series-clinching Game 5 between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals on FS1. Thursday night’s game peaked at 8,802,000 viewers between 11:30 – 11:45 PM ET.

In Chicago, NLCS Game 5 delivered a 24.1/38 metered market rating/share and nearly doubled the performance of Thursday night’s NFL contest between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers (vs. 12.5/19), which aired head-to-head.

On the digital side, last night’s NLCS Game 5 was the most-watched event in FOX Sports GO history with 316,000 unique streams and an average minute audience of over 135,000.

FOX Deportes continued its surge this MLB Postseason with NLCS Game 5 becoming the most-watched LCS game in Spanish-language television history, with 312,000 viewers, and the most-watched MLB postseason game on Spanish-language television since Game 7 of the 2014 World Series (Giants-Royals).

NLCS Game 5 joins FS1’s top 10 list of most-watched events in network history (chart below). All ten of FS1’s most-watched events are MLB Postseason games, including seven from the 2016 postseason.

Rank	Date	Program	Net	Day	Time	Average Audience
1	10/16/2016	LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO 2	FS1	Sun	08:00P-10:58P	7,291,000
2	10/20/2016	LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO 5	FS1	Thu	08:00P-12:27a	7,180,000
3	10/18/2016	CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES 3	FS1	Tue	08:01P-11:29P	6,494,000
4	10/11/2016	CHICAGO CUBS/SAN FRANCISC	FS1	Tue	08:50P-12:11A	6,368,000
5	10/14/2015	HOUSTON/KANSAS CITY 5	FS1	Wed	08:00P-10:53P	5,944,000
6	10/15/2016	LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO 1	FS1	Sat	08:01P-11:48P	5,924,000
7	10/19/2016	CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES 4	FS1	Wed	08:01P-12:10A	5,813,000
8	10/7/2016	SAN FRANCISCO/CHICAGO CUB	FS1	Fri	09:25P-11:55P	5,697,000
9	10/23/2015	TORONTO/KANSAS CITY 6	FS1	Fri	08:00P-11:40P	5,626,000
10	10/15/2014	ST. LOUIS/SAN FRANCISCO 4	FS1	Wed	08:00P-12:04A	5,092,000