The WNBA scored its largest audience of the season — and top audience in 23 years — for the season’s second meeting of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.
Sunday’s Sky-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged 2.25 million viewers on CBS, surpassing Fever-Sun on ESPN2 Opening Night — Caitlin Clark’s debut (1.2, 2.12M) — as the most-watched WNBA game since Memorial Day 2001 (Sparks-Comets: 2.44M).
Viewership tripled Mercury-Liberty on CBS in the same window last year, which drew 694,000.
The Caitlin Clark-led Fever have now played in each of the five most-watched WNBA games since 2002, with two of those five matchups coming against Chicago.
Most-watched WNBA games this season (through June 16)
The Sky-Fever game was not the only outsized WNBA draw last weekend. On Saturday, ABC averaged 996,000 for a Liberty-Aces WNBA Finals rematch — the most-watched WNBA game since 2008, excluding those that either involved the Clark-led Fever or followed one of their games. New York’s win, which peaked with 1.22 million during the final quarter-hour, topped the previous high set a week earlier by Liberty-Sun, which drew 962,000.
ABC also drew 757,000 for Storm-Mercury on Sunday, peaking with 951,000 during the final quarter-hour. ABC has averaged 1.16 million viewers for its five WNBA games this season, up 85% from its full-season average last year.
Going back to last week, ION chipped in 330,000 for regional action on Friday.
