Game 1 of the WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury averaged 1.9 million viewers.<\/p>\n
It is the most-watched WNBA Finals opening game since the inaugural season in 1997.<\/p>\n
The number also represents a 62% increase from last year’s Game 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Aces win peaked with 2.5 million viewers, making it the second-largest audience for a WNBA Finals game ever behind last year’s Game 5.<\/p>\n
WNBA playoff games are now averaging 1.2 million viewers, up 16% from last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 1 of the WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury averaged 1.9 million viewers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,97541,12274,82,630],"class_list":["post-196909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-game-1-of-wnba-finals-averages-19m-viewers-most-viewers-for-opener-since-1997","tag-realgm-wiretap","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196909","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=196909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}