Opening rivalry games between the season between Caitlin Clark’s fever and Chicago’s sky of Angel Reese, as well as the AC of New York Liberty and Las Vegas, will be disseminated at the national scale on ABC within the framework of the growing slate of the network. The matches highlighted the WNBA 2025 broadcasting calendar that the League published Thursday.
The Disney / ESPN networks will broadcast 26 games, one more than during the previous seasons, and a new summit of 13 will be broadcast on its traditional distribution network, ABC. The previous summit was nine years, which he equaled a year ago. The totals include the All-Star game of the summer.
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Clark and fever, who were active in championship talents of veterans in free agencywill play in five of these ABC matches and in three of the eight games broadcast on CBS. Two of the CBS matches are the first games of the regular WNBA season to be broadcast in the prosecution hours on network television, said the League.
Lands of fever games
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May 17: Against Sky, 3 p.m. He, ABC
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May 24: Vs. Liberty, 1 p.m. He, CBS
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June 7: At Sky, 8 p.m. He, CBS
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June 14: Vs. Liberty, 3 p.m. he, ABC
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July 13: vs wings, 1 p.m. he, ABC
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July 27: At Sky, 2 p.m. He, ABC
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August 3: in Storm, 12 p.m. he, ABC
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August 9: vs sky, 8 p.m. he, cbs
The five fever competitions against the sky will be disseminated on a national scale on CBS, ABC and Ion, which will broadcast doublesheaders for the meeting on Friday evening. The linear network will broadcast 50 games, the largest number of all WNBA broadcasting partners. The first meeting between Clark and the Wings of Dallas, who have the choice n ° 1 in the draft of the WNBA and should select Paige Bueckers d’Uconn, will be played on Ion on June 27.
A total of 41 of the 44 Indiana games will be broadcast nationally, including 10 on ABC / ESPN and eight on Ion. Six different networks have established audience records broadcast in fever in the recruit season of Clark. Three of these games involved the sky with a peak of 2.3 million on ESPN. Twenty-three WNBA games exceeded 1 million views a year ago and 20 of them involved fever. The opposing teams have already moved their Games against fever to larger arenas to support more ticket sales.
This is the last year of the Old Media Rights Deal. The WNBA, Disney, Amazon Prime and NBC concluded an 11 -year agreement worth 200 million dollars per year which will enter into force in 2026. The Commissioner’s Cup will be broadcast on Prime Video.
Liberty, AS highlights the national television calendar
The Liberty and Aces, which has combined to win the last three titles, will appear in good place on national television. The reigning champion Liberty will take place in 32 games. The AS, after adding Jewell Loyd to a profession that sent Kelsey Plum to Los Angeles, will appear in 33 television games or broadcast at the national level. Their three revenge (May 17, July 8, August 13) will be broadcast on ABC or ESPN.
The revenge of the 2024 finals between the Liberty and the Lynx of Minnesota which have experienced five games will receive national treatment. Their four games will be broadcast once on ESPN, ABC, CBS and NBA TV.
Bueckers, Valkyries made its debut
The minnesota of the Wings final of Wings, the opening evening in What could be the beginnings of Bueckers. The game will be broadcast on Ion. Dallas finished 11th in the 12 teams and will largely play on Ion and NBA TV. In addition to his July match at the Indiana broadcast on ABC, the Wings will play again on ABC in August when they face the AS.
The Golden State Valkyries, the first expansion team since the dream in 2008, will make its debut on Ion during the opening evening of three games. Golden State will welcome Los Angeles. They welcome the ACEs on ABC in June and play aces on CBS the following month.
