{"id":748433,"date":"2026-06-20T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748433\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:06:14","slug":"wnba-draws-1-million-viewers-on-usa-despite-world-cup-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748433\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA draws 1 million viewers on USA despite World Cup competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

WNBA viewership on USA Network reached a season high on Tuesday as Caitlin Clark continued to prove herself a viewership draw, even against World Cup competition.<\/p>\n

Tuesday night\u2019s Toronto Tempo-Indiana Fever matchup on USA averaged<\/a> 1.00 million viewers, the most-watched WNBA game on cable this season. It is also up 134% from the WNBA\u2019s 2025 average cable viewership.<\/p>\n

Impressively, the WNBA saw a cable season high while facing strong competition from the World Cup. Iraq-Norway, which started an hour earlier on FOX and Telemundo, averaged<\/a> 5.9 million viewers in English and an additional 4.8 million viewers in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s matchup outdrew other WNBA games, going against the World Cup. On Monday night, the Las Vegas Aces-Dallas Wings on USA Network drew 457,000 viewers. Earlier, on Saturday night, the Minnesota Lynx-Aces game on CBS drew 872,000 viewers.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark has long been an important casual draw for the WNBA. Now in her third full season, she has transitioned from a highly anticipated rookie to an established superstar, yet her ability to attract viewers remains evident.<\/p>\n

Even though Clark-featured games blow them out of the water, viewership for other WNBA games competing with the World Cup remains strong. For comparison, the NHL averaged<\/a> 1.1 million viewers for games on ABC last year and 385,000 viewers for games on TNT.<\/p>\n

The WNBA, seeing similar numbers, with competition from the World Cup, is a strong sign for the league. Though it could be even stronger if it could replicate Clark\u2019s casual draw for other players and teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA viewership on USA Network reached a season high on Tuesday as Caitlin Clark continued to prove herself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,735,48,82,630,262318,247431],"class_list":["post-748433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-on-cbs","tag-wnba-on-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748433","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=748433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}