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According to industry figures reported by Sports Media Watch, this year's World Series averaged 11.69 million viewers on FOX, down 26% from the 15.71 million average the 2025 series delivered.

Bruce said:

According to industry figures reported by Sports Media Watch, this year's World Series averaged 11.69 million viewers on FOX, down 26% from the 15.71 million average the 2025 series delivered.

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That thier own stupidity ...

They make it hard to find the game when its on FOX 1 game, then FS1, then on Tru or some other little ity biyy channel that people rerely watch and can't find. (I don't know if FOX is TRU or not, but thats what I'm saying, they put games on obscure channels and expect people to easily find it and watch.

Jimbo said:

That thier own stupidity ...

They make it hard to find the game when its on FOX 1 game, then FS1, then on Tru or some other little ity biyy channel that people rerely watch and can't find. (I don't know if FOX is TRU or not, but thats what I'm saying, they put games on obscure channels and expect people to easily find it and watch.

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Every WS game was on the main Fox Broadcast Channel, what are you referring to?

Bruce said:

Every WS game was on the main Fox Broadcast Channel, what are you referring to?

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Throughout the playoffs most games were not over the air. They were on FS1 or TrueTV, HBO, TBS....So without a sports package you need FS1, and the others you need a old school TV package. If I had to guess, close to 75% of playoff games were not on free local TV.

Bruce said:

Every WS game was on the main Fox Broadcast Channel, what are you referring to?

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Playoffs ...

Technically, they are right, the actual World Series was all on Fox.

They have been talking about shortening the Season ... IF they ever do, they would need to have the Playoffs OVER before the NFL Starts ... which is 1st or 2nd week in September.

Between College and the NFL, the World Series loses viewers because Football is starting .... unless YOUR Team is in it.

I would consider my self the Avg baseball fan ... My teams were Out of it after the 1st round of playoffs, which shouldn't even be a thing, except they can make more MONEY ... lets add another 2 or 3 rounds to the playoffs.

Its a farce that they let half the league in the playoffs, when I grew up, there was real competitiveness in the playoffs, only a few teams made the Playoffs ... you had 4 divisions, winners were in, thats it ... (it was something like that).
Now its a participation sport, if you have a winning record, you can probably get in ...

AZ. said:

Throughout the playoffs most games were not over the air. They were on FS1 or TrueTV, HBO, TBS....So without a sports package you need FS1, and the others you need an old school TV package. If I had to guess, close to 75% of playoff games were not on free local TV.

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But I never posted about the playoffs, only the World Series.

And a 4 million drop in households is a big deal, specially what Fox pays for it, they are already losing money on the MLB contract, now even more, since they might have to give some of the money back to advertisers, since it might of not made certain ratings goals.

Bruce said:

But I never posted about the playoffs, only the World Series.

And a 4 million drop in households is a big deal, specially what Fox pays for it, they are already losing money on the MLB contract, now even more, since they might have to give some of the money back to advertisers, since it might of not made certain ratings goals.

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Last year it was the Dodgers and Bluejays. This year is was the Brewers and the Rays, two teams that never won a World Series. Last year the Dodgers were the former year champion, can they do a repeat against a Toronto team that looked unbeatable. That World Series was a classic between two teams that really wanted it. The highlight of this year was can Milwaukee go 4-0 like they did to the Dodgers, and they just about did.

Bobby said:

Last year it was the Dodgers and Bluejays. This year is was the Brewers and the Rays, two teams that never won a World Series. Last year the Dodgers were the former year champion, can they do a repeat against a Toronto team that looked unbeatable. That World Series was a classic between two teams that really wanted it. The highlight of this year was can Milwaukee go 4-0 like they did to the Dodgers, and they just about did.

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Yep ratings have lots to do with what teams are playing. Large market over smaller. Underdog teams people want to root for. But If you make it hard to watch all the playoffs, you will get less interest for the World Series.

Bruce said:

According to industry figures reported by Sports Media Watch, this year's World Series averaged 11.69 million viewers on FOX, down 26% from the 15.71 million average the 2025 series delivered.

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People are tired of watching the World Series without the Yankees.

AZ. said:

Yep ratings have lots to do with what teams are playing. Large market over smaller. Underdog teams people want to root for. But If you make it hard to watch all the playoffs, you will get less interest for the World Series.

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Except last year, the playoffs were aired on the same channels as this year.

TRG said:

People are tired of watching the World Series without the Yankees.

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Not Me, I rather enjoy it ...

Bruce said:

Except last year, the playoffs were aired on the same channels as this year.

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Quick Question, WITHOUT Looking it up ...
Who played in the World Series last year ?

Jimbo said:

Quick Question, WITHOUT Looking it up ...
Who played in the World Series last year ?

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Two MLB teams.

Bruce said:

Two MLB teams.

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Now, having low numbers this past year doesn't surprise me at all, you had 2 teams that don't like to spend tons of money and they are not your Large markets.

Jimbo said:

Not Me, I rather enjoy it ...

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I thought you might like that.

Bruce said:

But I never posted about the playoffs, only the World Series.

And a 4 million drop in households is a big deal, specially what Fox pays for it, they are already losing money on the MLB contract, now even more, since they might have to give some of the money back to advertisers, since it might of not made certain ratings goals.

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I guess they should figure that out ... maybe not offer as much if they can't afford it next time.

Jimbo said:

They have been talking about shortening the Season ... IF they ever do, they would need to have the Playoffs OVER before the NFL Starts ... which is 1st or 2nd week in September.

Between College and the NFL, the World Series loses viewers because Football is starting .... unless YOUR Team is in it.

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the playoffs/WS has been played in October and competing against the NFL for the past 50+ years. Ratings were just fine before. Timing is not the problem. The problem is the product has deteriorated to the point where even the most hardcore fans like myself have a hard time watching regularly.

Lost in Love - Air Supply

You're Lost Little Girl -- The Doors

You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Hall & Oates

long_time_Dish said:

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - Hall & Oates

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FIFY

Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Delaney & Bonnie

I use a Beelink Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N95 running Windows 11 Pro as my Channels DVR. I only log into it when I need to, and do that with the Remote Desktop app from my personal Windows 10 laptop.

It runs Channels DVR, plus Docker Desktop and a few bridge programs used with Channels like that. It's supposed to auto-logon into my profile back into the Windows Desktop, and auto start all those things. EVERY TIME it reboots for whatever reason, usually only AFTER one of these push updates at 3am, Channels itself restarts fine, but my Docker Desktop and two bridge programs do NOT restart unintended like they should.

IF I then log into the Windows desktop using the Remote Desktop app, Docker and my bridge programs THEN engage and startup as they should.

What's wrong with my settings, so I can fix this once and for all to properly log into my profile after an automatic update reboot to bring up Windows and allow these programs to autostart as they should?

primestar31 said:

I use a Beelink Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N95 running Windows 11 Pro as my Channels DVR. I only log into it when I need to, and do that with the Remote Desktop app from my personal Windows 10 laptop.

It runs Channels DVR, plus Docker Desktop and a few bridge programs used with Channels like that. It's supposed to auto-logon into my profile back into the Windows Desktop, and auto start all those things. EVERY TIME it reboots for whatever reason, usually only AFTER one of these push updates at 3am, Channels itself restarts fine, but my Docker Desktop and two bridge programs do NOT restart unintended like they should.

IF I then log into the Windows desktop using the Remote Desktop app, Docker and my bridge programs THEN engage and startup as they should.

What's wrong with my settings, so I can fix this once and for all to properly log into my profile after an automatic update reboot to bring up Windows and allow these programs to autostart as they should?

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I don't use docker on my windows 11 pc but I do use Channels DVR and after updates it reverts back to the login screen and Channels DVR does not run until I login. I have been burned by this several times. How are you getting windows 11 to auto log in?

b4pjoe said:

How are you getting windows 11 to auto log in?

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Apparently, I'm not, that's my problem.

The Channels DVR software can be set as a service, and that starts automatically whether anybody is logged in or not after the pc reboots. That's a choice when you first install it by checking a box. There's likely a way to bring that choice back up after it's been installed for a while, BUT, you'd have to ask them on their forum for the best way to do it as I don't remember.

Channels Community

primestar31 said:

Apparently, I'm not, that's my problem.

The Channels DVR software can be set as a service, and that starts automatically whether anybody is logged in or not after the pc reboots. That's a choice when you first install it by checking a box. There's likely a way to bring that choice back up after it's been installed for a while, BUT, you'd have to ask them on their forum for the best way to do it as I don't remember.

Channels Community

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I think I tried it as a service once and it would not let me use hardware transcoding and forced it to software transcoding.

primestar31 said:

I use a Beelink Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N95 running Windows 11 Pro as my Channels DVR. I only log into it when I need to, and do that with the Remote Desktop app from my personal Windows 10 laptop.

It runs Channels DVR, plus Docker Desktop and a few bridge programs used with Channels like that. It's supposed to auto-logon into my profile back into the Windows Desktop, and auto start all those things. EVERY TIME it reboots for whatever reason, usually only AFTER one of these push updates at 3am, Channels itself restarts fine, but my Docker Desktop and two bridge programs do NOT restart unintended like they should.

IF I then log into the Windows desktop using the Remote Desktop app, Docker and my bridge programs THEN engage and startup as they should.

What's wrong with my settings, so I can fix this once and for all to properly log into my profile after an automatic update reboot to bring up Windows and allow these programs to autostart as they should?

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Ok, I just used Google A.I. to tell me how to fix all this, so I'm all set now as that makes it all easy and step by step. I changed an admin setting in gpedit so that automatic updates will download, but will prompt me for install and reboot, they aren't allowed to automatically install an reboot at 3 am anymore. I then changed my one bridge program to start via Task Scheduler instead of it's own autostart featur, so it'll log in with my Windows account after a 1 minute delay

AT&T runs First Net which was set up so first responders have a signal almost everywhere, which is the case around here and up and down the east coast when I've been traveling. In my experience T-Mobile has the fastest network but patchy coverage while Verizon has a slow network and also patchy coverage as well. We also have a iPhone on T-Mobile and one on Mobile-X which uses the Verizon network, so comparison is easy.

JSheridan said:

AT&T runs First Net which was set up so first responders have a signal almost everywhere, which is the case around here and up and down the east coast when I've been traveling. In my experience T-Mobile has the fastest network but patchy coverage while Verizon has a slow network and also patchy coverage as well. We also have a iPhone on T-Mobile and one on Mobile-X which uses the Verizon network, so comparison is easy.

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I did a 2500 mile round trip road trip a few weeks ago, there were a handful of places where Verizon had service and I had nothing on FirstNet. Most notably in the backwoods of Kentucky and Tennessee. Those same places I had no service on T-Mobile either. In populated areas, like the Lexington metro and Knoxville metro AT&T not only had great coverage, better than Verizon and T-Mobile generally, they have n77 everywhere. I hit 1.2 Gbps or higher pretty much everywhere, beating out the other two. That is the exact opposite here back in Western NY. Very little n77 on AT&T here and T-Mobile always rockets to 1.5 Gbps or higher.

As far as I know, there is no AT&T tower in my town. The tower I connect to when I'm outside, no service indoors, is one about 4.5 miles north of me in a different town, I can barley latch on to band 12, not 14. It's LTE only but when near that tower I exceed 200 Mbps which is phenomenal for low band LTE, but T-Mobile and Verizon have mid band on the same tower, and i'm well over a gig.

I'm looking forward to the n14 conversion and deployment of n79/4.9 GHz. Since AT&T can't sell their home internet service in NY State, I don't expect big things from them besides the enhancements to FirstNet.

AT&T basically went downhill as even for Internet, they were slow in offering services as AT&T WorldNet did not exist until 1994.
In 1994, the commercialization of the Internet accelerated rapidly, forcing major telecommunications giants like AT&T to compete directly with pioneering network operators like BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman).

AT&T's Early Moves. In October 1994, AT&T launched its first public World Wide Web presence (www.att.com). However, AT&T initially lagged behind rivals in offering direct, commercial Internet backbone and access services, leading it to look for external partnerships to catch up quickly.

Having built and operated the original ARPANET, BBN formed its commercial Internet service provider (ISP) division, BBN Planet, in 1994. By the end of that year, BBN acquired regional networks like SURAnet, making it the largest provider of corporate and institutional Internet access in the United States.

Long-distance rival MCI moved faster than AT&T into commercial Internet infrastructure. Alongside Sprint, IBM, and UUNet, MCI operated one of the primary commercial Internet backbones as the government-funded NSFNET prepared for decommissioning in 1995.

Because AT&T needed immediate enterprise-grade Internet capabilities to counter MCI and Sprint, AT&T forged a major alliance with BBN Planet in mid-1995.

According to The New York Times, AT&T guaranteed BBN Planet at least $120 million in revenue over three years to supply Internet access and security services to AT&T's corporate clients, while also purchasing a minority stake in the company.

While the BBN partnership gave AT&T an immediate foothold in corporate Internet services, AT&T soon built out its own massive consumer and enterprise infrastructure, launching dial-up service AT&T WorldNet in 1996. So basically AT&T would use BBNPlanet's backbone and BBNPlanet would then use MCI's backbone for anything they didn't handle directly.

Meanwhile, GTE acquired BBN in 1997, eventually merging it into what became Verizon's network assets.

Found this online:

Only thing was I thought AT&T split into 13 Regional Bell Operating Companies and not 7 like it says.

Almighty1 said:

Only thing was I thought AT&T split into 13 Regional Bell Operating Companies and not 7 like it says.

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The 13 Regional Bell companies were pre-divestiture.

Bobby said:

The 13 Regional Bell companies were pre-divestiture.

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And of all of them, only Cincinnati Bell remains, correct?

comfortably_numb said:

And of all of them, only Cincinnati Bell remains, correct?

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I believe that is correct.

EarDemon said:

... Since AT&T can't sell their home internet service in NY State, I don't expect big things from them besides the enhancements to FirstNet.

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We're in NY and we can now. We're an AT&T retailer and have been selling AT&T Internet Air for a few months. It's $35 a month if you're an AT&T post paid subscriber, $55 a month if you're not a subscriber.

JSheridan said:

We're in NY and we can now. We're an AT&T retailer and have been selling AT&T Internet Air for a few months. It's $35 a month if you're an AT&T post paid subscriber, $55 a month if you're not a subscriber.

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The AT&T Internet that everyone has access to is AT&T WorldNet aka att.com which is the same backbone created in 1994 that is a joke. AT&T has 3 Internet tier 1 backbones. AT&T Global Network Services formerly IBM Global Network Services (prserv.net) and AT&T Emerging Network Services, formerly (CERFNet (California Educational and Research Foundation Network) that was part of NSFNet (National Science Foundation Network). AT&T WorldNet has always been a inferior and not the same quality as the other two which are highly respected.

Breakfast for lunch. Crispy corned beef hash, home fries, two over easy eggs and sourdough toast.

Grabbed a burrito on the run. Beef, pinto beans, green chile and cheese. Stewart's cream soda.

Beef, bean green chile, cheese homemade burritos here... Water

Juicy Lucy jalapeño burger… Tea

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kKPtA8xuif0

Went with the Olympia menu...

I wonder it they will show the teased meeting (in Origins) with Tony and Gibbs.

KAB said:

I wonder it they will show the teased meeting (in Origins) with Tony and Gibbs.

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I'm curious how they are going to implement Tony into Origins (If they do) ...
Tony was introduced to Gibbs and the team, on NCIS, which makes it the Mothership side of things, he worked in Baltimore prior to NCIS, NO mention when they met that anyone had known one another ...

KAB said:

I wonder it they will show the teased meeting (in Origins) with Tony and Gibbs.

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Teased Meeting ?

I didn't recognize him till I saw this... (William Katt)

View: https://youtu.be/n9S3F87A588?si=tU_YQX6h3vDmrGEf

Good episode.

Good one, Katrina Law's daughter played the little girl.

First rule - if you get a clue follow it immediately, 2nd - keep your stuff with you in a strange place, 3rd - pay attention to your ride... (pre first - don't go if you think you might not want to stay Rob)

Still miss "On Fire" podcasts, found these...

View: https://youtu.be/XhBPqEz8pP8?si=iXn4UuXAcwWAKPFK


View: https://youtu.be/SiM7LI0ySio?si=Y-75xOXapYcEf8BQ


View: https://youtu.be/4vz_xetsX9o?si=hph63mnL_KA-iky4

Loved the tribal

Happy with the outcome, he was annoying...

Luck or unluck of the draw, plus the others using idols and shot in the dark sealed their fate.
Christian wasted the extra vote giving it away...