{"id":156213,"date":"2025-06-04T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156213\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:13:10","slug":"mlb-sees-double-digit-viewership-increases-in-the-united-states-and-japan-baltimore-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156213\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB sees double-digit viewership increases in the United States and Japan \u2013 Baltimore Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Major League Baseball\u2019s viewer numbers in the United States and Japan during the first two months of the season have seen double-digit increases, MLB and Nielsen reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s coverage is up 22%, averaging 1.74 million viewers. It is the most-watched season on ESPN through the first two months since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This might be the last year ESPN is carrying baseball after it opted out of its rights deal in February.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB Tuesday package on TBS has a 16% increase. Fox Sports is up 10%, averaging 1.84 million viewers per game.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday\u2019s 18-2 rout by the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Yankees averaged 2.2 million on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB.TV streaming package has seen its viewership increase 27%, with more than 7.5 billion minutes watched through Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Games on the NHK channels in Japan are averaging 2.7 million. The average does not include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/03\/20\/chicago-cubs-tokyo-series-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Tokyo Series games<\/a> between the Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs, which began the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings are on pace for MLB\u2019s most-watched regular season in Japan as the audience has increased every year since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>On MLB.TV, streaming viewership has increased 27% versus 2024, which was the most-watched season in the history of the service. For games through Monday, June 2, MLB.TV has more than 7.5 billion minutes watched this season.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: June 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Major League Baseball\u2019s viewer numbers in the United States and Japan during the first two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[14881,79,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-156213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622444760454357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}