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Fresh out of its 26th regular season, the WNBA is set to post all-time high ratings on major TV partner ESPN in 2022.
ESPN announced on Tuesday that the Disney Network (ABC, ESPN
In addition, ESPN said that starting May 17, 2008, the Seattle Storm and Las Vegas Aces games on Sundays, regardless of network, would be was the most-watched WNBA game.It aired on ABC as part of the regular-season doubleheader and peaked at 1.1 million viewers.
Minnesota Lynx and Connecticut Combined with the early games of the ABC doubleheader between the Suns, those games combined averaged 768,000 viewers, with ESPN calling last year's average a "40% surge."
The WNBA playoffs begin Wednesday with two best-of-three series: No. 7 seed New York Liberty faces No. 2 seed and defending champions Chicago Sky, No. 8 seed Phoenix Mercury No. 1 seed
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