Valkyries-Dream Game 4 Averaged Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.9 Million Viewers, Up 32% vs. Last Year and Peaking at 2.5 Million <\/p>\n
STAMFORD, Conn. — Oct. 27, 2026 — Game 4 of the 2026 WNBA Finals between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries, which was played in the early afternoon on Saturday, Oct. 24, averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.9 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched WNBA Finals Game 4 ever and up 32% vs. last year\u2019s Game 4, based on official Nielsen Big Data + Panel and digital data from Adobe Analytics.<\/p>\n
The audience of 1.9 million viewers (1:01-3:35 p.m. ET) is up 14% vs. the previous Game 4 record (Liberty-Lynx, Oct. 18, 2024, ESPN, 1.67 million) and up 32% vs. last year\u2019s game (Aces-Mercury, Oct. 10, 2025, ESPN, 1.44 million).<\/p>\n
Led by Gabby Williams\u2019 17 points, Golden State\u2019s 67-62 win over Atlanta peaked at 2.5 million viewers for the game\u2019s exciting conclusion from 3:30-3:45 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
Below are the top local market viewership ratings for Game 4 of the WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and Dream.<\/p>\n
Market <\/p>\n
Rating <\/p>\n
San Francisco <\/p>\n
3.97<\/p>\n
Atlanta <\/p>\n
2.80<\/p>\n
New Orleans <\/p>\n
2.54<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City <\/p>\n
2.08<\/p>\n
Richmond <\/p>\n
1.91<\/p>\n
NBC Sports averaged 2.0 million viewers for its two-game WNBA Finals coverage (Games 1 and 4), up 20% vs. last year\u2019s Games 1 and 4. Coverage of Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, which began at 3:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 17, averaged 2.1 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched WNBA Finals Game 1 ever.<\/a><\/p>\n For its combined WNBA playoff coverage consisting of one Semifinal game and two Finals games, NBC Sports averaged 1.7 million viewers, the most-watched WNBA playoff average for a network since 2000. Game 1 of the WNBA Semifinals between the Las Vegas Aces and Valkyries on Oct. 4 averaged 1.12 million viewers<\/a>, making it the third-most-watched Semifinals Game 1 ever.<\/p>\n In its return to WNBA coverage, NBC Sports averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.8 million viewers for its seven regular season games on NBC and Peacock, up 35% vs. comparable coverage last season. This was NBC Sports\u2019 first season with WNBA coverage since 2002.<\/p>\n –NBC SPORTS–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valkyries-Dream Game 4 Averaged Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 1.9 Million Viewers, Up 32% vs. Last Year and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-948736","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\/948736","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=948736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}