The WNBA announced a new 11-year media rights deal Wednesday featuring partnerships with Disney, Amazon Prime Video and new rights holder NBCUniversal.
The deal is valued at about $2.2 billion, or $200 million per year, a source told ESPN, but future agreements with additional partners could bring the league’s overall media deals closer to $3 billion.
“Partnering with Disney, Amazon and NBCU marks a monumental chapter in WNBA history and clearly demonstrates the significant rise in value and the historic level of interest in women’s basketball,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement. “These agreements allow the league to continue to build a long-term and sustainable growth model for the future of women’s basketball and sports which will benefit WNBA players, teams and fans.”
The Athletic was the first to report the value of the deal.
According to a release, Disney — which owns the majority of ESPN — Amazon and NBCU will show more than 125…
