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Caitlin Clark is TV gold.
On Sunday, Clark vs Angel Reese generated file viewership and never solely grew to become the highest-rated recreation of the WNBA season, however the highest-rated recreation since 2001.
Through SportsMediaWatch
Sunday’s Fever-Sky WNBA common season recreation, the third assembly of the season between Indiana’s Caitlin Clark and Chicago’s Angel Reese, averaged 2.30 million viewers on ESPN — surpassing the groups’ assembly on CBS the prior week (2.25M) because the most-watched WNBA recreation since Memorial Day 2001.
The three most-watched WNBA video games since 2001 have come simply within the first six weeks this season, two being matchups of Clark and Reese and the third being Clark’s debut in opposition to Connecticut on Opening Night time.
Chicago’s win was additionally the most-watched WNBA telecast ever on ESPN.
Fox Sports activities information analyst Michael Mulvihill launched some eye-popping stats that reveals WNBA video games that includes Clark get twice the rankings as common WNBA video games and 3 times as many viewers vs video games that aired final season.
WNBA viewership season-to-date, all networks:
Caitlin Clark video games – 1.184 mill
All different video games – 428k
All video games this time final 12 months – 301k
— Michael Mulvihill (@mulvihill79) June 25, 2024
It looks as if Clark is a big driving pressure within the WNBA rankings recreation.
