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ESPN currently charges the highest retransmission consent fee of any major cable television network in the United States. In 2011, the main channel alone carried a monthly rate of $4.69 per subscriber (nearly five times the price of the next-costliest channel, TNT), with ESPN's other English language channels costing an additional $1.13 per subscriber; these prices rise on a nearly constant basis.
Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" will be "dispersed to the league's teams". [173] In 2013, the WNBA and ESPN signed a six-year extension on the broadcast deal to cover 2017–2022.
The following is a list of current (entering the 2024 WNBA season) Women's National Basketball Association broadcasters for each individual team. The announcers who call the television broadcasts also call the WNBA League Pass Production broadcasts unless noted otherwise. Teams listed under local broadcasts for them are 2024 broadcast teams.
It is not the first ultra-loaded team in WNBA history — a mere three years ago Skylar Diggins-Smith joining the Phoenix ... Active career rankings: ... No. 1 picks: 4 (Parker in 2008, Plum 2017 ...
Only 19 of the 2023 picks played at least one game in the WNBA last season. Since 2018, 142 of 216 draft picks (65.7%) have played in a WNBA game at some point in their career. The high mark was ...
The first pick is awarded to the team that wins the WNBA draft lottery; in most cases, that team had a losing record in the previous season. Eight first picks have won the WNBA Most Valuable Player Award : Lauren Jackson (three-time winner), Candace Parker (two-time winner), Diana Taurasi , Tina Charles , Maya Moore , Nneka Ogwumike , Breanna ...
The male-dominated sports media apparatus is stumbling over itself trying to pretend that it hasn’t ignored the WNBA for decades until Caitlin Clark came along. But rather than admitting their ...
The lottery to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2025 draft took place on November 17, 2024. It was televised on ESPN in the United States and streamed on TSN+ in lieu of TSN network due to the latter airing the CFL's 111th Grey Cup with CTV in Canada. The four non-playoff teams in 2024 qualified for the lottery.