WNBA Finals Game 5 was most-watched Finals game in 25 years, peaked with 3.3 million viewers

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The most memorable WNBA Finals in history produced a memorable viewership number: ESPN reported Tuesday that 2.15 million viewers watched the New York Liberty hold off the Minnesota Lynx 67-62 in a Game 5 overtime thriller to capture the Liberty’s first WNBA title.

It was the most-viewed WNBA Finals game in 25 years and peaked with 3.3 million viewers. ESPN said the Finals were up 115 percent over last season. Last year’s four-game WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Liberty averaged 728,000 viewers.

The viewership breakdown of the series was as follows:

  • Game 1: 1.14 million viewers on ESPN.
  • Game 2: 1.34 million viewers on ABC.
  • Game 3: 1.39 million viewers on ESPN.
  • Game 4: 1.67 million viewers on ESPN.
  • Game 5: 2.15 million viewers on ESPN

Per Sports Media Watch: Game 5 delivered the largest WNBA audience ever on an NFL Sunday, surpassing the previous high of 1.84 million viewers for Indiana Fever versus Connecticut Sun on ABC in the first round of this year’s playoffs, which marked the playoff debut of Caitlin Clark. Sports Media Watch also noted the only telecasts to draw a larger audience than Game 5 all involved Clark: four Fever games, the WNBA Draft and the WNBA All-Star Game.

The Finals culminated a fantastic year of viewership for the league. Overall, there…

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