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WNBA: Sun-Fever
(Jun 17, NBA TV)
6/18 10:33 PM
Jon Lewis

Tuesday’s Sun-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged a 0.34 rating and 624,000 viewers on NBA TV, making it the most-watched game of the season on the network. The previous high was 581,000 for the Fever against the Dream last month.

Viewership outpaced a Sky-Liberty game on ESPN the previous Tuesday night, which drew 606,000. (That game did have a higher rating, 0.38).

Tags: WNBA on ESPN, WNBA on NBA TV

Source: Programming Insider, Programming Insider


WNBA: Mystics-Fever
(May 28–Jun 3, NBA TV)
6/5 8:59 PM
Jon Lewis

Tuesday’s Mystics-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged 330,000 viewers on NBA TV, down from the same matchup six days earlier, which drew 357,000. Caitlin Clark was again out due to injury.

The Fever have played in three of the four WNBA games on NBA TV this season, with Clark’s lone appearance holding the top spot (581K). The only non-Fever game on the network, Storm-Wings, had 339,000.

Tags: WNBA on NBA TV

Source: Programming Insider


WNBA: Fever-Dream
(May 19–20, NBA TV)
5/22 11:27 AM
Jon Lewis

Tuesday’s Dream-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged a 0.33 rating and 581,000 viewers on NBA TV, marking the network’s fourth-largest WNBA audience since becoming Nielsen rated in 2010. Only three games last season — all involving Clark — rank higher: September 11 against the Aces (678K), September 1 against the Wings (652K) and August 26 against the same Dream (617K).

The previous day, Storm-Wings averaged a 0.20 339,000 — the most-watched WNBA game on NBA TV that did not involve Clark and the Fever, and higher than a competing MLB game on FS1 (Reds-Pirates: 0.16, 298K).

Tags: WNBA on NBA TV

Source: Programming Insider, Programming Insider


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