Fox Sports Kansas City announced a record season of Royals baseball, with ratings for the year at an all-time high of 12.3. It is the highest local rating by a regional sports network in all of baseball, and the highest rating for any market since 2002. Viewership rose 84% over last year's record-setting season.
Royals baseball destroyed the competition on prime time on other channels over the summer. Prime time games got a rating of 13.0, compared to 5.5 for KCTV 5, the CBS-affiliate who had the second-highest prime time ratings in Kansas City over the baseball season.