The WNBA averaged a 1.3 rating on ESPN networks across 25 regular-season games, making it the most-watched regular season in the history of the network.<\/p>\n
That number was up 6% from last year’s average of 1.2 million viewers across 24 games.<\/p>\n
Games averaged 721,000 male viewers, a 2% increase from last year. Female viewership averaged 543,000 viewers, up 13% from 2024.<\/p>\n
ESPN networks carried eight out of the ten most-watched WNBA games this year. The Sky-Fever matchup on May 17 was the most-watched WNBA regular season game ever with 2.7 million viewers.<\/p>\n
Nine out of the top ten most-watched games on ESPN networks featured the Fever.<\/p>\n
The studio show “WNBA Countdown” averaged 549,000 viewers, up 7% from last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA averaged a 1.3 rating on ESPN networks across 25 regular-season games, making it the most-watched regular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,12274,82,630,77582],"class_list":{"0":"post-145007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-realgm-wiretap","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba","13":"tag-wnba-averages-13m-viewers-on-espn-most-watched-regular-season-in-league-history"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}