Even without Caitlin Clark and the Fever, the WNBA topped the million viewer mark yet again with a matchup of the defending champion Aces against Angel Reese and the Sky.
Sunday’s Aces-Sky WNBA regular season game averaged 1.22 million viewers on CBS, making it the most-watched WNBA game this season that did not feature or follow Clark and the Indiana Fever.
The Aces’ buzzer-beating win, which peaked with 1.65 million viewers, was the 20th WNBA game to average at least one million viewers this season — and the 21st telecast total, including the WNBA Draft. Prior to this season, the record for million viewer telecasts in a season was 15. Of those, it was only the third game that did not feature Clark and the second that did not at least air adjacent to one of her games.
Prior to this season, no WNBA game had topped the million mark since 2008.
The game was the last on the CBS broadcast network this season. CBS averaged 1.10 million viewers for its eight games this season, up 86% from last year and easily the most-watched WNBA season on the network. CBS began airing games in 2020.
In other action, Saturday’s Fever-Lynx game averaged 569,000 viewers on NBA TV — easily the most-watched WNBA game ever on the network, which became Nielsen-rated in 2010. Minnesota’s win, which peaked with 705,000 viewers in the final quarter-hour, topped all-but-five NBA games on NBA TV during the 2023-24 season, including all five of the network’s NBA playoff games.
Fever-Lynx was the 16th WNBA game this season to set a network record, with NBA TV setting records on five different occasions this season (all involving Clark and the Fever).
WNBA viewership records by network this season
