{"id":821920,"date":"2026-07-24T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821920\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:15:08","slug":"wnba-viewership-surge-continues-behind-caitlin-clark-and-indiana-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821920\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA viewership surge continues behind Caitlin Clark and Indiana Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA season is in full swing, and Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever have delivered strong viewership for the league.<\/p>\n<p>In primetime on Saturday, the New York Liberty-Indiana Fever matchup averaged 2.58 million viewers on CBS. The game is the most-watched WNBA telecast ever on CBS, and the second-most-watched WNBA game this season, behind Fever-Las Vegas Aces (<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/wnba\/fever-aces-outdraw-sunday-night-baseball-nbc-caitlin-clark.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2.64 million<\/a>) last Sunday on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the game is the third-most-watched WNBA regular season game since 2000. Chicago Sky-Fever to open last season on ABC is the most-watched with <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/wnba\/sky-fever-opener-largest-regular-season-audience-since-2000.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2.70 million viewers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On other networks this week, games featuring Clark and the Fever also posted record viewership. On Wednesday, the Golden State Valkyries-Fever matchup on USA Network averaged 1.14 million viewers. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmediawatch.com\/2026\/07\/wnba-viewership-fever-liberty-among-most-watched-since-2000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Media Watch<\/a>, that is the most-watched game on USA Network this season.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, regional action on Ion featuring the Seattle Storm-Fever, Atlanta Dream-Toronto Tempo and Los Angeles Sparks-Sky averaged 1.02 million viewers. That is also the most-watched WNBA game on the network this season, according to SMW.<\/p>\n<p>Other nationally televised WNBA games featured slightly lower viewership. Sparks-Dream on USA Network on Monday averaged 455,000 viewers. That game faced competition from the Home Run Derby on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, which saw a tripleheader of games on ABC, CBS, and ESPN, Sparks-Dallas Wings on ABC averaged 975,000 viewers, Sky-Dream on ABC (against the World Cup Final) averaged 792,000 viewers, and Connecticut Sun-Phoenix Mercury on ESPN averaged 597,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>But even that relatively lower non-Clark viewership is still strong for the WNBA. Both Sparks-Dream and Sun-Mercury on cable, for example, were up from last year\u2019s cable average of 435,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Caitlin Clark continues to raise the viewership ceiling for the WNBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA season is in full swing, and Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever have delivered strong viewership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,262318,219019,247431,95434],"class_list":["post-821920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-on-cbs","tag-wnba-on-ion","tag-wnba-on-usa","tag-wnba-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821920","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=821920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}