<div id="subtitle">World Series television ratings bounce back from last year's record lows</div><div><p>World Series television ratings bounced back from last year's record lows.</p><p>The Yankees' six-game victory over the Phillies on Fox averaged an 11.7 rating and 19 share. That's the highest since a 15.8/26 in 2004, when the Red Sox swept the Cardinals to end an 86-year championship drought.</p><p>It's up 39 percent from the record-low 8.4/14 for the 2008 Phillies-Rays series. Fox said Thursday that was the biggest one-year increase ever.</p><p>Game 6 on Wednesday night earned a 13.4/22.</p><p>The rating is the percentage of households with televisions tuned to a program. The share is the percentage of homes watching among those with TVs in use at the time.</p><p>___</p><p>Fox is a unit of News Corp.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=62764482&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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