Facing major sports competition, PBA Playoffs viewership falls from week earlier despite Francois Lavoie's perfect game
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 10/20/2020, 6:00 PM
Francois Lavoie rolled a perfect game in the PBA Playoffs on Saturday. Photo illustration by Pro Bowlers Association.
Facing some big-time sports competition, the second show of the 2020 PBA Playoffs on FOX on Saturday was watched by fewer viewers than the first Playoffs show a week earlier, despite Francois Lavoie’s perfect game making for a scintillating show.
The second Playoffs show aired against high profile MLB playoff games and partially against the mammoth Alabama-Georgia college football game and drew average viewership (measured in 15-minute increments) of 591,000, with 143,000 in the key 18-49...