\n\t\t\t\t\tMore ways to watch the Women\u2019s National Basketball League season.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Women\u2019s National Basketball League has announced a new 2 year deal with Nine with all 92 regular-season games and the entire Finals Series Live on 9Now, with select games on 9GO!<\/p>\n
80+ games will screen on ESPN and ESPN2, and every single game on ESPN on Disney+.<\/p>\n
For the first time in the league\u2019s 45-year history, every game also live and free via the WNBL\u2019s revamped website and app \u2013 with up to six games a week.<\/p>\n
\u200dWNBL CEO Jennie Sager said, \u201cThe momentum and hunger for basketball is undeniable, with 1 in 5 girls now playing basketball in Australia. Our new broadcast deals are our answer to that momentum with more games easily accessible, helping young athletes see the pathways to playing pro and showing the incredible talent we have in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re proud to partner with Nine and ESPN \u2013 broadcasters who not only understand and embrace our vision but are actively helping us build the future of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amanda Laing, Managing Director of Streaming and Broadcast, Nine said: \u201cAt Nine we offer a powerful platform to our sports partners to develop and grow their audiences. In our new agreement with the WNBL it will proudly sit alongside the Olympics, Grand Slam Tennis, the English Premier League, NRL, Rugby plus the Swimming and Athletics World Championships, and now fans can watch our best female basketballers put on a show for free when every WNBL game is in the one destination \u2013 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cSport is at the core of our business and we\u2019re very proud to extend our partnership with the WNBL for a further two years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kylie Watson-Wheeler, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, The Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand and Head of ESPN Asia Pacific said: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to continue as broadcast partner of the WNBL and for the first time ever have every single game live on ESPN.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis broadcast arrangement reinforces ESPN\u2019s place as the \u2018Home for Hoops\u2019 and our standing as Australia\u2019s most widely distributed premium sports network across pay TV and streaming, now including ESPN on Disney+.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe WNBL continues to gain popularity and draw in new, highly engaged audiences, and we\u2019re excited they can cheer on their favourite teams with live matches in prime time every Tuesday night on ESPN and also available any time on Disney+.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additional coverage screens on Kayo, Foxtel and Fetch in Australia and Sky in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More ways to watch the Women\u2019s National Basketball League season. The Women\u2019s National Basketball League has announced a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-117377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}