{"id":883508,"date":"2026-10-15T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883508\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:28:09","slug":"espn-delivered-its-most-watched-wnba-playoffs-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883508\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN delivered its most-watched WNBA Playoffs ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESPN delivered its most-watched WNBA Playoffs ever through the semifinals in 2026, continuing a record-setting year of WNBA viewership across ESPN networks as the league celebrates its 30th season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across eight games, ESPN networks averaged 1.4M viewers, up 23% compared to coverage through the semifinals last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A record-setting regular season<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The postseason performance follows ESPN\u2019s most-watched WNBA regular season ever, marking the third consecutive year ESPN networks set a regular-season viewership record. Across 29 games, ESPN networks averaged 1.37M viewers, up 17% year-over-year, with five games surpassing 2M viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESPN averaged 1.24M viewers across 17 games, up 32%, while ABC averaged 1.56M viewers across 12 games, up 9%. Younger audiences also grew significantly, with viewership among Persons 2\u201317 increasing 29% and Persons 18\u201324 rising 27%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Nielsen Big Data + Panel<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-30-<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESPN media contacts:<br \/>Santa Brito | santa.brito@espn.com<br \/>Alex Feuz | alex.feuz@espn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN delivered its most-watched WNBA Playoffs ever through the semifinals in 2026, continuing a record-setting year of WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-883508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883508","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=883508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}