{"id":146850,"date":"2025-09-16T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146850\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:13:23","slug":"no-caitlin-clark-no-angel-reese-no-problem-espn-reports-record-wnba-viewership-for-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146850\/","title":{"rendered":"No Caitlin Clark? No Angel Reese? No problem. ESPN reports record WNBA viewership for 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite missing some marquee players for significant chunks of the season, ESPN and ABC reported record viewership for WNBA<\/a> regular-season games in 2025.<\/p>\n

Those networks televised 25 regular-season games, averaging 1.3 million viewers, ESPN reported. That’s up 6% from 2024.<\/p>\n

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ESPN’s most-watched game this season was the Indiana Fever<\/a>‘s season opener against the Chicago Sky<\/a> on May 17, which drew 2.7 million viewers.<\/p>\n

Viewership grew overall despite significant absences by the Fever’s Caitlin Clark<\/a>, the Sky’s Angel Reese<\/a> and the New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ESPN networks are the exclusive broadcaster of the WNBA playoffs, which started Sunday.<\/p>\n

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(First-round series are best-of-three games, with the better seed playing at home for Games 1 and, if necessary, 3)<\/p>\n

Chloe Peterson<\/a> is your best Fever follow, watch IndyStar TV<\/a> for more coverage and sign up for our Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: ESPN has record WNBA viewership for 2025 season, even without Caitlin Clark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite missing some marquee players for significant chunks of the season, ESPN and ABC reported record viewership for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,732,4657,49,735,48,726,1161,1612,2803,3460,736,3457,3461,26079,1611,82,630,26214],"class_list":["post-146850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-espn","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-indiana-fever","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-regular-season-games","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146850","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=146850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}