{"id":766555,"date":"2026-05-01T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766555\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:35:20","slug":"nbc-to-debut-new-wnba-marketing-spot-during-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766555\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC to debut new WNBA marketing spot during Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">NBC will debut a new WNBA marketing spot on Saturday during the Kentucky Derby as it prepares to return to coverage of the league this season in Year 1 of a new media rights pact. Aces C <b>A\u2019ja Wilson<\/b>, Liberty G <b>Sabrina Ionescu<\/b> and Wings G <b>Paige Bueckers<\/b> will headline the ad, which officially launches NBC Sports\u2019 WNBA campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The spot is set inside a faux NBCU office, with \u201cSNL\u201d<b> <\/b>cast member<b> Chloe Fineman<\/b> giving the three WNBA stars a tongue\u2011in\u2011cheek \u201cfirst day of work\u201d tour where they pass by pictures of famous NBC female stars like <b>Mariska Hargitay<\/b>,<b> Tina Fey<\/b>, <b>Amy Poehler <\/b>and<b> Betty White<\/b>. NBC SVP\/Sports Marketing <b>Lyndsay<\/b> <b>Signor<\/b> and her team led the effort on the creative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">New NBC WNBA analyst <b>Sue Bird<\/b> also will be interviewed during the Derby broadcast. NBC makes its return on the WNBA calendar on May 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC will debut a new WNBA marketing spot on Saturday during the Kentucky Derby as it prepares to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":766556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1339,5939,110727,62,67,132,68,232,1707],"class_list":["post-766555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-churchill-downs","tag-nbc-sports-group","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116501002822222359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766555","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=766555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}