{"id":287677,"date":"2025-10-08T22:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:53:12","slug":"aces-mercury-wnba-finals-posting-highest-viewership-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287677\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces-Mercury WNBA Finals posting highest viewership in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dana<\/p>\n

Dana Evans of the Aces drives to the basket during Game 1 of the WNBA Finals. Stephen Gosling \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The WNBA Finals is putting up viewership numbers not seen in decades.<\/p>\n

ESPN said the 2025 WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury has produced the most-viewed WNBA Finals through two games since 2000. The series is averaging 1.5 million viewers between games on ABC and ESPN. That\u2019s the best number through two games since the Houston Comets and New York Liberty averaged 1.54 million viewers in 2000 after games on NBC and Lifetime.<\/p>\n

Game 1 of the 2025 WNBA Finals \u2014 a 89-86 Las Vegas win \u2014 averaged 1.9 million viewers on ESPN, up 62 percent from the Minnesota Lynx vs. Liberty in 2024. That was the most-watched Finals opener since the WNBA\u2019s first season in 1997, a single-elimination game won by Houston that averaged 2.8 million viewers on NBC. Sports Media Watch said this year\u2019s opening game was the second most-watched Finals audience since 2000, trailing only last year\u2019s winner-take-all Game 5 (2.2 million viewers).<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s Game 2 on ABC averaged 1.2 million viewers as Las Vegas stars Jackie Young and A\u2019ja Wilson in Game 2<\/a> combined for 60 points in a 91-78 win.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s Game 3 (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) does have significant viewership competition \u2014 with an all-day smorgasbord of playoff baseball and four NHL games that signal the start of the season for those eight NHL teams.<\/p>\n

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Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana Evans of the Aces drives to the basket during Game 1 of the WNBA Finals. Stephen Gosling…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4144,1502,62,222,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-287677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-las-vegas-aces","9":"tag-phoenix-mercury","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-business","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115341008242827653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}