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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 ...
The media deal negotiated as part of the NBA package is a reported $200 million per year and could provide an influx of cash to pay out bigger base salaries. But it could be more given the recent ...
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.
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]
The WNBA players are expected to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement after this season which would end that deal after next year. New deal impact. The new revenue could greatly increase player salaries which has been an issue for many years. Since the league was founded in 1997 players have gone overseas to supplement their ...
All that has pushed media rights valuations to sky-high levels. Warner Bros. Discovery’s current deal averages out to about $1.2 billion a year, much lower than the figure NBC is reportedly ...
The 2013 WNBA Finals games averaged 344,000 viewers. [18] The 180,000 viewers for 9 games in 2012 was the lowest regular season WNBA ESPN2 ratings, with 2005 having the highest regular season ratings at 282,000. Two 2012 games broadcast on ESPN averaged 359,000 viewers (one game on ABC had 804,000 viewers).
The WNBA players union, known as the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA), has opted out of the current collective bargaining agreement early with the league, demanding a new ...