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Women’s pro hoops are coming back to Amazon’s Prime Video for at least two more years. Prime Video and the WNBA on Friday announced a rights renewal deal under which Prime Video will continue ...
Eight new WNBA coaches now in place. In 2025, 7 women and 6 men will be in charge on the bench ... FILE - New Los Angeles Sparks head coach Lynne Roberts fields questions during a news conference ...
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.
Game 2 of the 2012 WNBA Finals between the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx was broadcast on ESPN (games 1,3 and 4 were on ESPN2) and received 778,000 viewers and a .6 household rating. This was the highest rated WNBA broadcast on ESPN since a 1999 Western Conference Finals game between the Houston Comets and Los Angeles Sparks received ...
Unrivaled, a new women's professional basketball league, is about to hit the ground running, ushering in another era for women's sports. The 3-on-3 league was co-founded by two WNBA stars, the ...
The WNBA signed a new media rights deal in July worth a reported $200 million a year, more than three times the current package. However, a question that will be raised during CBA negotiations is ...
Sophia Witherspoon: Played a total of 7 seasons in the WNBA. Two of them with the Portland Fire (The first two seasons in franchise history; 2000 & 2001). Before that, she played with the New York Liberty from 1997 to 1999. After her 2000–01 stint with the Fire, she played her last two seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2002–03 before ...