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The following is a list of current (entering the 2024 WNBA season) Women's National Basketball Association broadcasters for each individual team. The announcers who call the television broadcasts also call the WNBA League Pass Production broadcasts unless noted otherwise. Teams listed under local broadcasts for them are 2024 broadcast teams.
Since the 1960s, all regular season and playoff games broadcast in the United States have been aired by national television networks. Until the broadcast contract ended in 2013, the terrestrial television networks CBS, NBC, and Fox, as well as cable television's ESPN, paid a combined total of US$20.4 billion [11] to broadcast NFL games.
The new television deal runs from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games will be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 each season; the rights to broadcast the first regular-season game and the All-Star Game are held by ABC. Additionally, a minimum of 11 postseason games will be broadcast on any of the three stations. [62]
Teams can use a core designation on one player, usually an unrestricted free agent, to retain the player’s rights. A player can only be designated twice in a career and has the right to veto trades.
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Viewership for the first two games is up 13% over last year’s finals The WNBA is competing for TV viewers […] The post WNBA holding its own against NFL, MLB, with finals broadcast during busy ...
On the same token however, Nielsen ratings for NBC broadcasts of WNBA games slipped [36] from 2 million households reached in 1997—the WNBA's inaugural season—to 1.5 million in 1999. [37] The average rating for the first 9 of the 10 [38] WNBA games NBC carried in the 2001 season [39] was only 1.1, compared to a 2.0 rating its first season. [40]
In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN.The new television deal ran from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games would be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 each season; the rights to broadcast the first regular-season game and the All-Star Game were held by ABC.