June 17, 2026
Comcast-owned Versant is about to simulcast 11 WNBA video games throughout its business-focused CNBC community as a part of the league’s 11-year media distribution cope with the media firm’s USA Network to current WNBA video games – together with the regular-season and parts of the Playoffs and WNBA Finals in choose years – starting with the present season.
The June 17 simulcast is a doubleheader that includes the New York Liberty vs. Chicago Sky at 8pm ET on the USA Network, adopted at 10pm ET with the Las Vegas Aces vs. Phoenix Mercury on CNBC.
The simulcast allows WNBA followers to watch video games that run lengthy on USA Network.
“It’s really a promise that we make to not only the WNBA, but all our league partners that we’ll look for new audiences for them,” Matt Hong, president of USA Sports informed CNBC.
USA Network broadcasts at the very least 50 WNBA video games, together with Monday and Wednesday evening doubleheaders billed as “WNBA Wednesdays”.
The broadcast bundle premiered on May 10, shortly changing into second most-popular program on the community. The debut recreation reportedly tallied 529,000 viewers.
The league has change into in style with the addition of Caitlin Clark, the NCAA’s all-time basketball scorer amongst males or girls, as well as to social media stars Angel Reese, Sophia Cunningham, Paige Bueckers, A’ja Wilson, Cameron Brink, and Sabrina Ionescu, amongst others.
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