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Wednesday, October 25
Notebook: TV ratings going south
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Fox's World Series coverage is drawing
more young, male viewers but ratings are on pace to be the
lowest-rated World Series ever.
The cumulative national rating for the first two games between
the Yankees and Mets was a 12.0 with a 21 share, down from
each of the past two years.
The national average for the first two games is down from the previous lowest rating of 14.1 in 1998, when the Yankees swept the San Diego Padres.
Each rating point represents a little more than one million television households. Share is the percentage of in-use TV's tuned to a given program.
The New York ratings, on the other hand, are through the roof, with a
share of 41.9, or some 2.8 million viewers, Reuters reported.
But outside the five boroughs and surrounding suburbs, the
games might as well be played between two teams from Mars. According to preliminary Nielsen figures released by Fox,
the all-New York affair isn't playing in the rest of the
country, with numbers ranging from a low of 7.7 in Pittsburgh
to 13.5 in Houston.
Compared with last year's Yankees-Atlanta Braves series, this year's Fall
Classic is off by 17 percent through two games.
The Subway Series is also losing ground from a competitive
standpoint, according to Reuters. Last season, the first two games of the Series
ranked second and fifth for the week in total viewers, while
this season they placed eighth and 12th.
Since 1968, Nielsen said the highest-rated World Series
were the Yankees-Los Angeles Dodgers clash in 1978 and the 1980
matchup between the Kansas City Royals and the Philadelphia
Phillies. Both series -- which lasted six games and featured
two day games each -- had a massive 32.8 rating, representing
an average 44 million and 42 million viewers respectively, according to Reuters.
Fake passes discovered
NEW YORK -- Two men and a teen charged $100 each and used
fake press passes to smuggle baseball fans into Shea Stadium to see
the World Series, authorities said.
The scam was uncovered when the three approached two undercover
police officers and a pair of casually dressed baseball officials
and offered them a chance to see Tuesday night's game, police said.
The three suspects approached fans without tickets for Game 3 of
the Mets-Yankees series. Once they escorted the fans inside, the
suspects would take the passes back, exit the stadium and work the
scam again, police said.
They were arrested after they escorted the undercover officers
and baseball officials into Shea, police said.
Police also seized a car in the Shea parking lot that held
dozens of fake press passes for sporting events and concerts and
$1,040 in cash.
Steven Nederios, 31, of Fall River, Mass., and Jesse C. Pepper,
17, and Joseph Reisinger, 37, both of Providence, R.I., were
charged with possession of forged documents and trademark
violations.
Fight over World Series leads to arrest
GARRISON, N.Y. -- A fight over the World Series outside
a Putnam County restaurant has left a Mets fan in the hospital and
a Yankee fan charged with attempted murder.
The Putnam County Sheriff says the fight was early Sunday
morning in the parking lot of the Stadium Restaurant. Deputies
responding to a call about a fight in progress at 1:13 a.m. Sunday
found Darrell Wassil, 23, of Putnam Valley with a stab wound
to his chest. He's been upgraded to good condition.
Sheriff Robert Thoubboron said an investigation led to
the arrest Tuesday of Michael Maffia, 23, of Wappingers
Falls.
Thoubboron said the two were watching Game 1 in
the restaurant and "push led to shove. Fists started flying and
the perpetrator allegedly pulled a knife."
Maffia was arraigned on attempted murder charges in Phillipstown
Justice Court on Tuesday night and ordered held on no bail in the Putnam
County Jail.
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Dan Patrick asks Fox's Joe Buck why can't they play at least one day game in the World Series.
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Real: 14.4 | 28.8 | 56.6
Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt on the duration of today's baseball game.
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