{"id":764980,"date":"2026-07-15T20:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:17:17","slug":"nbc-peacock-wnbas-sunday-night-basketball-most-watched-league-game-in-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764980\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC\/Peacock: WNBA\u2019s &#8216;Sunday Night Basketball&#8217; Most-Watched League Game in 26 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"single-featured-image\" alt=\"NBC\/Peacock: WNBA\u2019s \u2018Sunday Night Basketball\u2019 Most-Watched League Game in 26 Years\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WNBA-Logo.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/author\/egruenwedel\/\" title=\"Posts by Erik Gruenwedel\" class=\"author url fn\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Gruenwedel<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">July 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA\u2019s \u201cSunday Night Basketball\u201d July 12 debut between the Indiana Fever and the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces generated averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 2.64 million viewers on NBC and Peacock in primetime, making it the most-watched regular season game since 2000, based on Nielsen Big Data + Panel and digital data from Adobe Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring four-time WNBA MVP A\u2019ja Wilson (Aces) and three-time WNBA All-Star Caitlin Clark (Fever), the game was the first-ever WNBA regular-season Sunday game in primetime on a broadcast network and subscription streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>Led by guard\u00a0Kelsey Mitchell\u2019s 27 points, the Fever\u2019s 34-point victory, 109-75, over the Aces peaked at 2.8 million viewers from 10:30-10:45 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports has averaged a TAD of 1.5 million viewers for its four WNBA games this season on NBC and Peacock, up 71% from comparable coverage last season and the most of any WNBA media partner this season.<\/p>\n<p>This is NBC Sports\u2019 first season with WNBA coverage since 2002. WNBA coverage continues on July 20 at 8 p.m. ET on Peacock and NBCSN with the Aces visiting 2026 WNBA All-Star Marina Mabrey and the Toronto Tempo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dgLnU5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Subscribe HERE to the FREE\u00a0Media Play News\u00a0Daily Newsletter!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/game-night-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game Night<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BLU-RAY REVIEW:\u00a0 Warner; Comedy; Box Office $68.85 million; $28.98 DVD, $35.99 Blu-ray; Rated \u2018R\u2019 for language, sexual references and some violence. Stars Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Chelsea Peretti, Danny Huston,\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/peacock-adds-nbc-sports-channel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock Adds NBC Sports Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peacock has added a new exclusive free channel: NBC Sports on Peacock. Debuting\u00a0Aug. 24, the channel will stream daytime live sports talk programming, including\u00a0\u201cPFT Live with\u00a0Mike Florio,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Dan Patrick Show\u201d and\u00a0\u201cThe Rich Eisen Show.\u201d\u00a0In September,\u00a0\u201cBrother From Another\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cPFT PM\u201d\u00a0will join the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erik Gruenwedel July 15, 2026 The WNBA\u2019s \u201cSunday Night Basketball\u201d July 12 debut between the Indiana Fever and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,38969,220,99,434],"class_list":["post-764980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-nbc-sports","tag-peacock","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}