LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The opening night of Major League Baseball’s abbreviated 2020 season set TV viewership records for Walt Disney Co’s ESPN sports channel, the network said on Friday.
An average of 4 million viewers watched the New York Yankees visit defending champions the Washington Nationals, the first game of a season delayed by four months due to the coronavirus pandemic, ESPN said in a statement. Nearly 2.8 million tuned in to see the San Francisco Giants battle the Los Angeles Dodgers.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Chris Reese)
