{"id":145975,"date":"2025-09-15T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145975\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:10","slug":"wnba-scores-another-record-regular-season-audience-on-espn-nba-tv-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145975\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA scores another record regular-season audience on ESPN, NBA TV, CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Even with Caitlin Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/05\/clarks-absence-puts-cloud-over-injury-ridden-wnba-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missing much of the season<\/a>, the WNBA managed record regular-season audiences across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/27\/audience-analysis-indycar-up-28-ahead-of-finale-cbs-wraps-record-wnba-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS<\/a>, ABC\/ESPN and NBA TV. Figures for ION are still TBD, but the network\u2019s package of Friday night games was flat at the All-Star break. ABC\/ESPN had a record WNBA audience for the second straight year, up 6% from 2024 for its game coverage (boosted in part by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/25\/nielsens-big-data-brings-potential-for-big-lift-to-sports-viewership-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/25\/nielsens-big-data-brings-potential-for-big-lift-to-sports-viewership-data\/\">Nielsen\u2019s new Big Data<\/a>). The 25 games on ABC\/ESPN this season averaged 1.3 million viewers, up from 1.19 million in 2024. That included a company WNBA record of 2.7 million viewers for Sky-Fever to open the season back on ABC on May 17. ESPN networks would end up airing eight of the 10 best WNBA games overall this season. The \u201cWNBA Countdown\u201d show also saw a 7% uptick in 2025. Meanwhile, NBA TV averaged a record 283,000 viewers this season, up 16% from last year\u2019s 244,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">THE ATHLETIC\u2019s Richard Deitsch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6623590\/2025\/09\/12\/wnba-regular-season-most-watched-in-history-espn-data-shows-even-with-caitlin-clark-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">also reported<\/a> that ESPN networks saw a 2% uptick among males and a 13% uptick among female viewers for its games. The top five U.S. markets for games on ESPN networks were Indianapolis, Louisville, Richmond, Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville and Minneapolis-St. Paul. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with Caitlin Clark missing much of the season, the WNBA managed record regular-season audiences across CBS, ABC\/ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,6714,1161,63198,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-145975","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-cbs","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-nba-tv","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145975","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=145975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}