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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Women's National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) threatened to strike in 2003 if a new deal was not worked out between players and the league. The result was a delay in the start of the 2003 preseason and the 2003 WNBA draft. As a result of the strike, the league received negative publicity.
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 .
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.
The WNBA's current media deal, which is valued at about $60 million per year, is set to expire after the 2025 season. The NBA, which owns about 60% of the WNBA has negotiated the new deals. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert had said before the season that she hoped to at least double the league's annual rights revenue since the league has grown ...
The new television deal ran from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games would be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 each season. Additionally, a minimum of 11 postseason games would be broadcast on any of the three stations. [2] Along with this deal came the first ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league.