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Jon Lewis
WNBA regular season games on CBS averaged 1.17 million viewers, up 6% from last year’s eight-game slate and the network’s most-watched season. The network’s season finale, Liberty-Dream on Saturday, averaged 595,000.
Source: CBS Sports
Jon Lewis
Saturday’s Liberty-Lynx WNBA Finals rematch averaged 793,000 viewers on CBS, up 25% from Lynx-Mystics on the network the same weekend last year. Viewership trailed the previous matchup between the teams a week earlier on ABC (977K).
CBS is averaging 1.23 million viewers for WNBA games this season, up 8% from a year ago.
Source: CBS Sports
Jon Lewis
Sans Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, Saturday’s primetime Sky-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged a 0.8 rating and 1.31 million viewers on CBS — down from the network’s previous primetime meeting between the teams, which featured Reese but not Clark (1.92M).
Indiana’s win was the least-watched meeting of the Sky and Fever in the two years since Clark and Reese have been in the league.
In other WNBA action, Saturday’s Lynx-Liberty WNBA Finals rematch averaged 977,000 on ABC, and Tuesday’s Fever-Wings game on ESPN averaged 1.3 million on ESPN — the latter ranking as the third-most watched WNBA game on ESPN this season.
Source: CBS Sports, ESPN, Programming Insider
Jon Lewis
Sunday’s Storm-Liberty WNBA regular season game averaged 987,000 viewers on CBS, down about half from Liberty-Fever last year (1.87M). Despite the big drop, CBS is still averaging more viewers this season than last, as its five-game average of 1.38 million is up slightly from a four-game average of 1.37 million a year ago.
Keep in mind CBS has aired only one Caitlin Clark game this season, compared to two at the same point last year.
Source: CBS Sports
Jon Lewis
CBS on Father’s Day averaged 939,000 viewers for a Sun-Sky WNBA regular season game, unsurprisingly down by more than half compared to Sky-Fever a year ago (2.25M). The previous day on June 14, CBS drew 702,000 for Sparks-Lynx, up 5% from Sun-Wings a year ago (671K).
Source: CBS Sports
Jon Lewis
Despite the absence of Caitlin Clark, Saturday’s primetime Fever-Sky WNBA regular season game averaged 1.92 million viewers on CBS — trailing only Game 5 of last year’s WNBA Finals as the most-watched game without Clark in the lineup since 2001.
For more on the numbers, see this article.
Source: WNBA
Jon Lewis
Saturday’s Liberty-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged 2.22 million viewers on CBS, the network’s second-largest WNBA audience behind a Sky-Fever game last year (2.25M).
New York’s win, which peaked with 3.24 million, delivered the eighth-largest WNBA audience since 2001 (sixth-largest if one excludes last year’s WNBA Draft and All-Star Game).
Source: CBS
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