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Published October 21, 2011, 07:04 AM

Brewers' season gains them new fans

Wisconsin Sports
-- The Milwaukee Brewers cultivated a lot of new fans this season. The Nielsen rating service said the TV ratings for the Brewers’ regular season games were 63-percent higher than a year ago.

MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Brewers cultivated a lot of new fans this season. The Nielsen rating service said the TV ratings for the Brewers’ regular season games were 63-percent higher than a year ago.

The average was 7.9 – the percentage of homes in the Milwaukee market which were tuned to the Brewer broadcasts on Fox Sports Wisconsin and WMLW. The rating was the third-highest in the country – only behind second-place Saint Louis and first-place Philadelphia.

In the playoffs, the Cardinals had the highest ratings at 26.2– while the Brewers had the third-highest rating at 22.6.

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