Final Broadcast Ratings: October 25, 2016

With the draw of a combined 176 years of title drought, Game one of the World Series, featuring the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians dominated the Tuesday night ratings. The game drew 19.4 million viewers and a solid 5.6 rating in Adults 18-49. Thats is up 4.1 million viewers and 22% in the demo, from last year's game one. This is the best game one ratings for the World Series since 2009.

NBC was a distant second place on the night. THIS IS US lead the night for the network, topping THE VOICE in all three demographic categories.

CBS was the second most watched network of the night, but ranked third in the demos. NCIS and BULL were down, week-to-week, but NCIS: NEW ORLEANS was slightly higher, at 10 PM.

ABC dropped to fourth place on the night and lost to The CW in the A18-34 demo, for the 8 PM hour. AGENTS OF SHIELD was the lowest rated program of the night, offered by the Big 4 Networks, with only The CW's NO TOMORROW doing worse.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	3.80 million	0.7	1.1	1.4
CBS	11.80 million	0.8	1.5	2.3
CW	1.80 million	0.6	0.7	0.7
FOX	19.40 million	4.4	5.6	6.6
NBC	8.30 million	1.3	2.0	2.7

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	The Middle	5.72	0.9	1.5	1.9
8:30	ABC	American Housewife	5.20	0.9	1.6	2.0
9:00	ABC	Fresh Off the Boat	3.98	0.7	1.2	1.6
9:30	ABC	The Real O'Neals	3.22	0.6	1.0	1.2
10:00	ABC	Agents of SHIELD	2.30	0.6	0.8	0.9
8:00	CBS	NCIS	14.08	1.0	1.7	2.7
9:00	CBS	BULL	11.61	0.8	1.5	2.3
10:00	CBS	NCIS: New Orleans	9.62	0.7	1.3	2.0
8:00	CW	The Flash	2.80	0.9	1.0	1.1
9:00	CW	No Tomorrow	0.78	0.2	0.3	0.3
8:00	FOX	World Series Game 1	19.37	4.4	5.6	6.6
8:00	NBC	The Voice	9.41	1.3	2.1	2.9
9:00	NBC	This Is Us	8.68	1.7	2.4	3.1
10:00	NBC	Chicago Fire	6.93	1.0	1.6	2.1

* - viewers in millions