Caitlin Clark’s historic season drives big WNBA ratings boost.
September 26 – Caitlin Clark’s rookie campaign might have come to an end Wednesday night, but her historic season helped drive the WNBA to its highest average game viewership in 24 years.
The league averaged 657,000 viewers per game, according to a report by the Sports Business Journal. That included a record 22 games topping 1 million viewers across the WNBA’s Nielsen-rated media partners (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ION, CBS and NBA TV), blowing away the previous league record of 15 in 1998. Of those 22, Clark’s Indiana Fever played in 19 of them.
Sep 25, 2024; Uncasville, Connecticut, USA; Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) dribbles the ball during the first half against the Connecticut Sun during game two of the first round of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena. Mandatory Credit: Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
The WNBA All-Star Game was the most-watched WNBA event of the season with more than 3.4 million viewers tuning in on ABC. The next 12 most-watched games across networks all featured the Fever, topped by Clark playing against Chicago Sky and fellow star rookie Angel Reese, which drew 2.3 million viewers to ESPN on June 23.
How much the playoff viewership dips now that Clark’s Fever have been eliminated remains to be seen.
Indiana was eliminated in two games by the Connecticut Sun. While Game 2 viewership numbers have yet to be released, Game 1 averaged 1.8 million on ABC, making it the WNBA’s most-watched playoff game since 2000.
While viewership numbers are expected to decline with Clark’s season over, Game 2 of the Las Vegas Aces series against the Seattle Storm averaged 985,000 viewers, per Programming Insider. That was more than any of the WNBA Finals games last season, according to a report by Front Office Sports.
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