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10-03-2024 02:37 PM |
https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/sports...re-eliminated/
Had a record 2.5 million viewers in the last Clark game. The next game had 929k viewers.
https://www.si.com/onsi/womens-fastb...t-01j9571ppn69
"Lewis wrote that Clark and Indiana's Game 1 of the WNBA Playoffs first round against the Sun drew 1.84 million viewers (while competing directly with the NFL). Game 2 drew a whopping 2.5 million average viewers according to SportsPro Media.com, and peaked at 3.4 million on ESPN.
None of the other WNBA playoff games have come remotely close to that. Although they're still performing extremely well when compared to years past.
"Sunday’s Aces-Liberty WNBA semifinal Game 1 averaged 929,000 viewers on ABC, up 27% from Game 1 of last year’s WNBA Finals between the same two teams, which aired in the same Sunday ABC timeslot (729K)," Lewis wrote. "New York’s win, which peaked with 1.2 million viewers, outdrew all four games of last year’s Finals — the most-watched of which was Game 4 at 889,000 viewers.
"Viewership soared 60% over last year’s semifinal game on ABC (Liberty-Sun Game 4: 579K) to rank as the highest for the round in 22 years," Lewis added.
"Later in the day, Game 1 of the Sun-Lynx series averaged 654,000 viewers on ESPN — the largest semifinal audience on cable since 2000."
So while Clark's absence has been clearly felt, these metrics illustrate that the entire sport is growing. How much of that can be attributed to Clark is unknown, but the bottom line is that the WNBA is booming right now."
That last sentence is pretty ****ing stupid. I'd say almost all of this viewership boom can be attributed to Clark. Shes even helping break records while not playing. No one would have watched this trash without her.
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