{"id":9334,"date":"2024-10-02T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:01:46","slug":"report-wnba-playoff-tv-ratings-revealed-without-caitlin-clark-and-its-not-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=9334","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: WNBA Playoff TV Ratings Revealed Without Caitlin Clark, And It\u2019s Not Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No\u00a0Caitlin Clark<\/a>, no viewership.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0WNBA<\/a>\u00a0is feeling the effects of not having their dynamic rookie in any more postseason games after the\u00a0Indiana Fever<\/a>\u00a0was eliminated in the first round by the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals between the defending champion Las Vegas Aces and the top-seeded New York Liberty had 929,000 viewers on ABC.<\/p>\n

That figure was the League\u2019s most-watched semifinal game in 22 years.<\/p>\n

Great news, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n

That figure is only half the 1.8 million viewers Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever drew in their playoff opener against the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n

ESPN has previously announced that the first-round playoff game 2 between the Fever and Connecticut Sun posted a Nielsen number of 2.5 million viewers and peaked at 3.4 million viewers.<\/p>\n

That number made it the highest-rated WNBA game on cable in the League\u2019s history. It was up 507 percent from last year\u2019s first-round coverage on ESPN.<\/p>\n

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