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Telecasts · MLB

ALCS Game 5 - Red Sox vs Yankees

Nielsen average audience: 17,800,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2004-10-18 Monday
Networks
FOX
Teams
Red Sox · Yankees
17,800,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-08-27

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
17,800,000
17.80M Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season comparable

17,500,000
ALCS Game 4
2003-10-13 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
+1.7% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on FOX, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

ALCS by year

2002–2024
Record
31.5M 2004
This telecast
#6 of 103 Before Out-of-Home
Years on record
21 2002–2024
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
10M20M30M40M2004 · ALCS Game 5 · 17.8M2004 · ALCS Game 5 · 17.8M2002 · ALCS Game 2 · 12.2M2003 · ALCS Game 7 · 27.5M2004 · ALCS Game 7 · 31.5M2005 · ALCS Game 2 · 13.5M2006 · ALCS Game 2 · 9.9M2007 · ALCS Game 7 · 19.1M2008 · ALCS Game 7 · 13.4M2009 · ALCS Game 6 · 15.5M2010 · ALCS Game 6 · 11.9M2011 · ALCS Game 3 · 8.4M2012 · ALCS Game 1 · 6.8M2013 · ALCS Game 6 · 9.0M2014 · ALCS Game 3 · 6.0M2015 · ALCS Game 1 · 6.5M2016 · ALCS Game 3 · 4.3M2017 · ALCS Game 7 · 9.9M2018 · ALCS Game 5 · 6.5M2019 · ALCS Game 6 · 7.5M2022 · ALCS Game 2 · 5.9M2023 · ALCS Game 1 · 7.0M2024 · ALCS Game 5 · 5.7M20052010201520202025
  • Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
  • Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
108 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:07 UTC

ALCS Game 5, every year on record

This telecast: #1 of 15 Game 5 telecasts in the Before Out-of-Home era

Panel + Out-of-Home
  1. 2024TBS · truTV · HBO Max5,734,000
Before Out-of-Home
  1. 2019FS15,630,000
  2. 2018TBS6,520,000
  3. 2017FS15,250,000
  4. 2016TBS2,860,000
  5. 2015FS12,580,000
  6. 2013FOX8,570,000
  7. 2011FOX5,680,000
  8. 2010TBS6,110,000
  9. 2009FOX11,850,000
  10. 2008TBS7,210,000
  11. 2007FOX13,100,000
  12. 2005FOX11,280,000
  13. 2004FOX17,800,000
  14. 2003FOX10,110,000
  15. 2002FOX9,210,000
16 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:07 UTC
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
YearTelecastAvg audience
2002ALCS Game 110,870,000
2002ALCS Game 212,160,000
2002ALCS Game 39,370,000
2002ALCS Game 48,930,000
2002ALCS Game 59,210,000
2003ALCS Game 118,430,000
2003ALCS Game 213,150,000
2003ALCS Game 311,900,000
2003ALCS Game 417,500,000
2003ALCS Game 510,110,000
2003ALCS Game 613,930,000
2003ALCS Game 727,490,000
2004ALCS Game 115,010,000
2004ALCS Game 215,230,000
2004ALCS Game 312,470,000
2004ALCS Game 414,820,000
2004ALCS Game 517,800,000
2004ALCS Game 625,090,000
2004ALCS Game 731,460,000
2005ALCS Game 111,480,000
2005ALCS Game 213,510,000
2005ALCS Game 39,640,000
2005ALCS Game 47,590,000
2005ALCS Game 511,280,000
2006ALCS Game 18,590,000
2006ALCS Game 29,870,000
2006ALCS Game 35,020,000
2006ALCS Game 47,720,000
2007ALCS Game 17,430,000
2007ALCS Game 28,790,000
2007ALCS Game 39,910,000
2007ALCS Game 412,370,000
2007ALCS Game 513,100,000
2007ALCS Game 611,150,000
2007ALCS Game 719,150,000
2008ALCS Game 16,690,000
2008ALCS Game 26,090,000
2008ALCS Game 34,500,000
2008ALCS Game 45,730,000
2008ALCS Game 57,210,000
2008ALCS Game 68,930,000
2008ALCS Game 713,360,000
2009ALCS Game 18,440,000
2009ALCS Game 29,380,000
2009ALCS Game 37,250,000
2009ALCS Game 410,300,000
2009ALCS Game 511,850,000
2009ALCS Game 615,480,000
2010ALCS Game 18,110,000
2010ALCS Game 25,830,000
2010ALCS Game 38,210,000
2010ALCS Game 49,850,000
2010ALCS Game 56,110,000
2010ALCS Game 611,860,000
2011ALCS Game 15,770,000
2011ALCS Game 26,570,000
2011ALCS Game 38,400,000
2011ALCS Game 48,370,000
2011ALCS Game 55,680,000
2011ALCS Game 67,700,000
2012ALCS Game 16,850,000
2012ALCS Game 24,220,000
2012ALCS Game 36,180,000
2012ALCS Game 45,250,000
2013ALCS Game 16,800,000
2013ALCS Game 28,350,000
2013ALCS Game 35,790,000
2013ALCS Game 48,090,000
2013ALCS Game 58,570,000
2013ALCS Game 69,040,000
2014ALCS Game 15,920,000
2014ALCS Game 24,250,000
2014ALCS Game 36,020,000
2014ALCS Game 43,990,000
2015ALCS Game 16,540,000
2015ALCS Game 22,660,000
2015ALCS Game 33,090,000
2015ALCS Game 42,600,000
2015ALCS Game 52,580,000
2015ALCS Game 65,630,000
2016ALCS Game 14,120,000
2016ALCS Game 22,610,000
2016ALCS Game 34,300,000
2016ALCS Game 42,750,000
2016ALCS Game 52,860,000
2017ALCS Game 16,160,000
2017ALCS Game 26,220,000
2017ALCS Game 35,110,000
2017ALCS Game 44,740,000
2017ALCS Game 55,250,000
2017ALCS Game 68,230,000
2017ALCS Game 79,920,000
2018ALCS Game 15,820,000
2018ALCS Game 25,660,000
2018ALCS Game 34,870,000
2018ALCS Game 46,180,000
2018ALCS Game 56,520,000
2019ALCS Game 16,110,000
2019ALCS Game 25,590,000
2019ALCS Game 33,840,000
2019ALCS Game 45,860,000
2019ALCS Game 55,630,000
2019ALCS Game 67,470,000
2022ALCS Game 15,490,000
2022ALCS Game 25,890,000
2023ALCS Game 17,020,000
2023ALCS Game 76,770,000
2024ALCS Game 55,734,000

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