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The 2016 WNBA Finals was the best-of-five championship series for the 2016 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The top-seeded Minnesota Lynx held home court advantage in the Finals, but lost three games to two to the second-seeded Los Angeles Sparks. The series followed a 2–2–1 format, and eschewed from the ...
Game 1 of the 2016 WNBA Finals was broadcast on ABC and had 0.5 overnight rating (597,000 viewers), which was the best since 2010. [ 9][ 10] The 5 game 2016 Finals broadcast on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 averaged a 0.3 rating and 487,000 viewers. [ 11] Average viewership in 2016 was 224,000 viewers.
WNBA Finals. The WNBA Finals are the championship series of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the conclusion of the league's postseason each fall. The series was named the WNBA Championship until 2002. Since 2016, Verizon is the official sponsor. The series is played between the winners of the playoff semifinals.
Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals registered the network's highest rated and most watched NBA game with an average 15.8 rating / 29 share and 31.02 million viewers. [2] It was the first basketball game to draw more than 30 million average viewers in 18 years, and only the seventh non- NFL sports telecast (excluding the Olympics ) to have done so ...
Game one of the finals telecast on ABC, drew 571,000 viewers, up from 558,000 for game 1 in 2014. [24] Game three of the finals drew 432,000 viewers, and game five drew 583,000, both on ESPN2. [25] [26] Game 1 of the 2016 WNBA Finals was broadcast on ABC and had 0.5 overnight rating (597,000 viewers), which was the best since 2010.
The Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States. It is composed of 12 teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to ...
The WNBA changed its playoff format in 2016. Following the WNBA regular season, eight teams in the entire league qualified for the playoffs and were seeded one to eight. Regular season records determined the seedings of the teams. The team with the best record received seed one, the team with the next best record received seed two, and so on.
It peaked at 1.4 million and is the most-watched WNBA game since 2008, beating out the 902,000 who watched Game 5 of the 2017 Finals. Game 4 on Tuesday was buried deeper in the network's lineup on ...