WNBA Postseason Ratings Still Surging Post–Caitlin Clark

October 14, 2024

The league’s most-watched championship round since moving to the best-of-five game format in 2005 was when  the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx deadlocked at one game apiece, with the Finals shifting to Minnesota for the next two games Wednesday and Friday. A winner-take-all Game 5 would be played back in New York on Sunday.

Last Thursday’s opener was the first WNBA Finals Game 1 in history to surpass one million viewers, with the audience on ESPN coming in at 1.14 million. Ratings for Sunday’s Game 2 on ABC—one of many playoff matchups scheduled head-to-head against NFL action—have not been released. FOS