{"id":641475,"date":"2026-05-01T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641475\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:05:08","slug":"nbc-to-debut-new-wnba-marketing-spot-during-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641475\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC to debut new WNBA marketing spot during Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">NBC Sports will debut a new WNBA marketing spot on Saturday during the Kentucky Derby as it prepares to return to coverage of the league this season in Year 1 of a new media rights pact. Aces C A\u2019ja Wilson, Liberty G Sabrina Ionescu and Wings G Paige Bueckers will headline the ad, which officially launches NBC Sports\u2019 WNBA campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The spot is set inside a faux NBCU office, with \u201cSNL\u201d cast member Chloe Fineman giving the three WNBA stars a tongue\u2011in\u2011cheek \u201cfirst day of work\u201d tour where they pass by pictures of famous NBC female stars like Mariska Hargitay, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Betty White. NBC SVP\/Sports Marketing Lyndsay Signor and her team led the effort on the creative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">New NBC WNBA analyst Sue Bird also will be interviewed during the Derby broadcast. NBC makes its return on the WNBA calendar on May 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC Sports will debut a new WNBA marketing spot on Saturday during the Kentucky Derby as it prepares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,136303,66632,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-641475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-churchill-downs","tag-nbc-sports-group","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641475","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=641475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}