Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese joining forces against the U.S. women’s national team for this year’s WNBA All-Star Game not only helped produce a Team WNBA victory, but also shattered the all-time audience mark for a WNBA All-Star Game broadcast.
Saturday’s showcase drew 3.44 million viewers on ABC, per Nielsen. That crushes the previous audience record set in 2003, when 1.441 million viewers tuned into ABC for a Saturday afternoon tilt at Madison Square Garden. That game featured an abundance of all-time greats, including Lisa Leslie, Sue Bird, Dawn Staley, Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, Tamika Catchings, Tina Thompson, Lauren Jackson, Teresa Weatherspoon, Chamique Holdsclaw, Katie Smith, Yolanda Griffith, Swin Cash and Nykesha Sales, among others. (There was also a first-time All-Star guard from the New York Liberty named Becky Hammon.)
The 2024 All Star Game audience number tracks as the most-watched WNBA event on any ESPN network, and the third-most watched WNBA game of all-time, based on data from Sports Media Watch. The audience for the game peaked from 10:30 – 10:43 p.m. ET with 4,054,000 viewers. It is the 17th WNBA game this year that has topped 1 million viewers, a remarkable achievement given the league had not hit the million viewership mark in the previous…
