Professional baseball PS average viewer rating 7.03%... A total of 22.4 million viewers

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced on the 11th that the average TV viewership rating for the 2026 professional baseball postseason (PS) increased by about 2% compared to last year.

This year's average PS TV viewership rating is 7.03%, up 0.14 percentage points from last year's 6.89%, and has been rising for two consecutive years after hitting 6.12% in 2024.

The average viewership rating for the series was 6.30% for the wild card (WC) match, 5.67% for the semi-playoffs (PO), 7.78% for the playoffs (PO), and 7.25% for the Korean Series (KS).

The KS 2nd game between Samsung Lions and KT Wiz held on the 4th had a viewer rating of 9.63% and the number of viewers was 2,189,739, recording the highest viewer rating and highest number of viewers on PS this year.

The 3rd PO match between Samsung and KIA Tigers held on October 29 followed with a viewer rating of 9.17% and 2,085,133 viewers.

The WC deciding match held on October 14 recorded a viewer rating of about 49% higher than last year's 4.24%. PO, which was a close contest until the final 5th game, had the highest average viewer rating among the four series.

The combined cumulative number of viewers is about 1.43 million for the WC final, about 3.87 million for the semi-PO, about 8.84 million for PO, and about 8.25 million for KS.

There were three games that were watched by more than 2 million people, and the total PS cumulative viewership was about 22.4 million.

PS The average number of viewers per game was about 1.6 million nationwide, down from 1,679,566 last year, but maintained at 1.6 million for two consecutive years.

This year, professional baseball recorded a record-high 12,770,551 regular season spectators, exceeding 10 million for three consecutive years. All 14 games were sold out at PS, attracting a total of 299,600 spectators.

This year, 13 of the 14 PS games were broadcast live on terrestrial channels.