March baseball of an international flavor has been a home run for MLB Network. Ratings for the 2017 World Baseball Classic game telecasts on the league-owned network through Saturday, March 11 are currently +18% over the 2013 WBC to date. The international baseball tournament that is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and put together by MLB and the MLB Players association has been conducted every four years since 2005. ET, led MLB Network to its second-best primetime audience ever, with an average of 977,000 viewers. SEE THE COMPLETE LISTING OF WBC BROADCAST PARTNERSThe television viewership increase in the U.S. comes on the heels of a sizeable increase of fans at the games.

Source: Forbes March 17, 2017 03:11 UTC