The Washington Post, October 22nd, 2003
For one brief shining moment, Fox suits celebrated last week's baseball playoff numbers, which had rocketed the network, for the first time ever, to No. 1 for the season among the 18-to-49-year-old viewers whom advertisers covet. Then the ratings came in on Monday's "Joe Millionaire" debut -- and the party was over. Here's a look at the rich and poor: WINNERS Baseball playoffs. The climactic seventh games of both the National and the American League playoffs, featuring the cursed Chicago Cubs and the cursed Boston Red Sox, respectively, each bagged about 27 million viewers for Fox on Wednesday...
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