Cardinals wins Game 7, ESPN and Fox on the scene
By Joshua Albarran – Tuesday, November 2, 2011

With the St. Louis Cardinals won their 11th World Series title in franchise history after beating the Texas Rangers in Game 7 at Busch Stadium last Friday, Fox and ESPN was on the scene of this historic World Series victory for the “Red Bird” team.

Across FOX Sports, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver call their 14th straight World Series together for the Fox network, as always since MLB first arrived at Fox back in 1996, while Chris Rose, Eric Karros and AJ Pierzynski were hosting the network’s pre and post-game reports, Fox were go on to win that night and was No. 1 in all of demographics beating ABC’s 20/20 special with Barbara Walters on billionaires, according to the FOX Sports Media Group’s press release, “FOX averaged a 14.5 household rating and 25 million viewers between 8 and 11 PM ET to earn the network its highest-rated and most-watched Friday night ever”. FOX Sports also announced that “The World Series remains an annual force in prime time. Game 7's dominating performance (14.5) also powered FOX to first place finishes in prime time six out of 7 nights the 2011 "Fall Classic" was broadcast. Since 1996 when FOX began airing World Series games, the network has won 64 out of 75 prime time nights, an incredible 85% performance”. This year’s World Series would be one of the highest rating World Series in history, including the 1996 New York Yankees winning their 1st World Series title in 19 years or the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks’ 1st World Series title in franchise history, both series was also televised on FOX.


Over at the Worldwide Leader, the 11:00pm SportsCenter with Linda Cohn and Robert Flores, provides full coverage with highlights, analysis and post-game interviews from Baseball Tonight with host Karl Ravech, John Kruk, Barry Larkin and Curt Schilling, while Chris Berman and Bobby Valentine were anchoring inside the Busch, as they interviewed players from the winning team, including Jason Motte and Albert Pujols. Berman, on a Friday night that he would hosted his “2 Minute Drill” every week on SportsCenter throughout the NFL season, was able to anchored the coverage for Game 7 of the World Series and because Berman had hosted ESPN’s coverage of the annual Home Run Derby, some regular season games and the first 2 postseason games from the Division Games for ESPN Radio since MLB debuted on ESPN in 1990.

ESPN and Fox Sports (and TBS) are doing are a great job on only not covering the World Series, but the entire 2011 MLB season, it has been a heck of a baseball season this year, can't wait for 2012 when Major League Baseball reopens its doors for the next season.