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The WNBA's media rights deal is up for renegotiation in the fall of 2025. After the recent ESPN-NCAA deal, which valued women's college basketball 10 times greater than its last agreement ...
In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN. The new television deal ran from 2009 to 2016. 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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
The media rights deal is also up and Engelbert has been vocal about the infusion of revenue a better deal would net. The league will play its 29th season in 2025 and has aired primarily on ESPN ...
The league is set to expand from 12 to 15 teams – with rumors of more circulating – and will only provide more opportunities for young girls looking to watch and play basketball going forward.
In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN. The new television deal runs from 2009 to 2016. 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 .