{"id":560437,"date":"2026-03-25T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:05:16","slug":"cbs-sports-reaches-new-rights-agreement-with-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560437\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Sports Reaches New Rights Agreement with WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-257765 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image001-1024x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"90\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">CBS Sports to Present up to 20 Regular Season Games Annually on<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">The CBS Television Network and Paramount+\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">An Expanded \u201cTHE WNBA TIP-OFF SHOW\u201d Returns Led by <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">WNBA Legends Lisa Leslie and Renee Montgomery and Host Jenny Dell<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0CBS Sports and the WNBA have expanded their seven\u2011year partnership through a new long\u2011term, multiplatform rights agreement. Under the enhanced package, CBS Sports will feature up to 20 regular\u2011season games annually on the CBS Television Network and streaming live on Paramount+. CBS Sports will present 20 regular-season games for the upcoming 2026 season, marking the Network\u2019s most ever WNBA games on broadcast television.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe WNBA\u2019s growth and cultural impact have never been stronger, and CBS Sports is proud to deepen our longstanding partnership with a league that continues to drive the evolution of women\u2019s sports,\u201d said Dan Weinberg, Executive Vice President, Programming, CBS Sports. \u201cWith our entire schedule of games on broadcast television, we are broadening the league\u2019s reach and amplifying the WNBA\u2019s momentum with best\u2011in\u2011class coverage that reflects the excellence of its athletes and resonates with fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jordan Kent (play-by-play), Isis \u201cIce\u201d Young (analyst) and Tiffany Blackmon (sideline) return as the WNBA on CBS\u2019s lead broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">THE WNBA TIP OFF SHOW, the Network\u2019s pregame, halftime and postgame studio show, is back and will expand to support 10 matchups including six shows airing on CBS and Paramount+ and four digital-exclusive editions available via CBS Sports HQ. The show will also welcome Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie as analyst and CBS Sports reporter Jenny Dell as host, joining analyst Renee Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>The full 2026 WNBA on CBS schedule will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-257766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-257767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774469116_361_image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports to Present up to 20 Regular Season Games Annually on The CBS Television Network and Paramount+\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-560437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560437","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=560437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}