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Facing major sports competition, PBA Playoffs viewership falls from week earlier despite Francois Lavoie's perfect game

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 6:00 pm
Facing major sports competition, PBA Playoffs viewership falls from week earlier despite Francois Lavoie's perfect game
Francois Lavoie rolled a perfect game in the PBA Playoffs on Saturday. Photo illustration by Pro Bowlers Association.
Facing some big-time sports competition, the second show of the 2020 PBA Playoffs on FOX on Saturday was watched by fewer viewers than the first Playoffs show a week earlier, despite Francois Lavoie’s perfect game making for a scintillating show. The second Playoffs show aired against high profile MLB playoff games and partially against the mammoth Alabama-Georgia college football game and drew average viewership (measured in 15-minute increments) of 591,000, with 143,000 in the key...