And it's nearly 50 percent below what Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS between the Mets and Braves pulled in for NBC Sports. Ratings have been down across the board during baseball's postseason this year. We are still very confident that once the World Series is played and the numbers are in that postseason baseball will still retain its spot as second only to the NFL as far as postseason viewership. Ratings for the baseball division playoff games on NBC and Fox were down more than 20 percent from 1999. ESPN's coverage of eight division playoff games were 16 percent lower than last year.
Share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a program.
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