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2025 @MLB #WorldSeries (@Dodgers #LetsGoDodgers 4️⃣, @BlueJays #WantItAll  3️⃣) averaged 16.1M viewers in the U.S. 🇺🇸 (Fox + Univision)

Based on who came closest:

🥇 @SportsOnTV_Hub (16.1M)
🥈 @stevekaplowitz (15.3M)
🥉 @AmbroseHank & @JasonYellin (15.0M)

Thanks to all!

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⚾️📺 #MLB #WorldSeries 2025 Ratings Preview: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers Enough to Hold American Interest as They Face the Toronto Blue Jays? https://t.co/MlJZUd0TCj via @PIUpdate

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Yellowstone," starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Luke Grimes and Cole Hauser debuted on Paramount Network in 2018. It ran for five seasons. Two prequel spinoffs have aired - "1883" and "1923," and the latest spinoffs are "Marshals," and "… https://t.co/7y2CY64TDG

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NBC’s summer replacement variety series “Dean Martin Presents”—more specifically “Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers”—premiered on June 20, 1968, as the off-season replacement for The Dean Martin Show. The program featured the all-female singing-and-da… https://t.co/d9H9wuFPPi

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“Toast of the Town,” the original title of legendary “The Ed Sullivan Show,” debuted on CBS in 1948. The first episode featured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, concert pianist Eugene List, and the six original June T… https://t.co/xVAPboaD3X

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📺 June 19, 1970: Sitcom “The Tim Conway Show,” which reunited Tim Conway with his former “McHale’s Navy” co-star Joe Flynn, concluded on CBS after only 13 episodes had aired. https://t.co/JXbMm2AMQM

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📺 June 19, 1952: Classic game show “I’ve Got a Secret” debuted on CBS with Garry Moore as host. The original version ran until April 3, 1967 (switching to a color format in 1966). https://t.co/tnxVPCYIWa

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📺 June 18, 2001: “Xena: Warrior Princess,” starring Lucy Lawless, concluded its six-season run in syndication. The adventure drama, a spin-off from the also-successful “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” became one of the signature syndicated hits of th… https://t.co/aSW9UtHFbN

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📺 June 15, 1948: New York City’s WPIX Channel 11 began broadcasting. New York baseball, reruns of sitcoms “The Honeymooners” and “Seinfeld” and the News at Ten are long most associated with the channel’s history. It is currently the CW affiliate in the … https://t.co/B84z25o0JX

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📺 June 15, 1977: “The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show” debuted on CBS, at a time when the broadcast networks aired several short-flight variety series in the summer during the 70s. It lasted six episodes. https://t.co/rC60qfInow

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📺 June 15, 1969: Country-themed variety hour “Hee Haw,” hosted by Roy Clark and Buck Owens and inspired by “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” premiered on CBS. A victim of the infamous “rural purge,” the network canceled “Hee Haw” in 1971 (along with sitcom “… https://t.co/59tGGfUE9S

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📺 June 15, 1984: Late night syndicated talk show “Thicke of the Night,” hosted by Alan Thicke, concluded its one season run. Thicke found far greater success in sitcom “Growing Pains,” which aired on ABC from 1985 to 1992. https://t.co/50vcFjcJmf

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📺 June 14, 2016: “Animal Kingdom,” based on the 2010 Australian film and starring Ellen Barkin, debuted on TNT. The family-crime drama lasted six seasons. https://t.co/ldulV4tRlV

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📺 June 14, 2006: Political drama “Commander in Chief,” starring Geena Davis and Donald Sutherland, ended its lone season on ABC.

While the series premiered in fall 2005 with strong ratings and considerable buzz, viewership steadily eroded throughout th… https://t.co/yxxo9TowmC

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🏒 June 14, 1994: The New York Rangers erased a 54-year Stanley Cup championship title drought, by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Commissioner Gary Bettman told the joyous crow… https://t.co/6gCeGNah0k

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📺 June 13, 2012: “Dallas” debuted on TNT. The revival of the 1978-91 prime time serial about the affluent Ewing family starred Josh Henderson, Jordana Brewster, Jesse Metcalfe, and from its original cast: Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy. Its … https://t.co/Mrlio67puI

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📺 June 13, 1993: “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” concluded its three-season run on Fox. The comedy that starred Corin Nemec and Abraham Benrubi was loosely based on the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” https://t.co/pK51OYTqO2

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"Prizzi's Honor," starring Jack Nicolson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston was released in 1985. Huston won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. https://t.co/0WH2tH3cwt

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📺 June 12, 1958: Game show “Make Me Laugh,” hosted by Robert Q. Lewis, ended its original run on ABC after only three months. Bobby Van hosted a syndicated revival airing from Jan. 1979 thru Feb. 1980; Comedy Central revived it in June 1997 with Ken Obe… https://t.co/gDAddSuSeo

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📺 June 12, 1955: Sitcom “Mister Peepers” starring Wally Cox, Marion Lorne and Tony Randall, concluded after three seasons on NBC. 127 episodes were produced.

Marion Lorne went on to play Aunt Clara on “Bewitched” and Tony Randall as Felix Unger in “The… https://t.co/XLO3i0Sj04

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CBS sitcom "Doctor, Doctor," starring Matt Frewer, began its two-and-one-half season run in 1989. https://t.co/lizBXUzKR8