Caitlin Clark's Fever set a TV ratings bar the WNBA semifinal openers could not come close to reaching
The Indiana Fever's regular-season games on major broadcast networks averaged more than twice the audience of the WNBA semifinal openers on Oct.
4.
And those playoff games were on ABC and NBC.
An OutKick review of Indiana's 10 regular-season games on ABC, CBS and NBC found an average audience of approximately 2.32 million viewers.
The two semifinal openers averaged about 1.16 million.
CAITLIN CLARK SENDS WNBA ALL-STAR RATINGS SOARING AS 3-POINT CONTEST AUDIENCE FALLS WITHOUT HER That gave Indiana an average audience approximately 100% larger, a difference of nearly 1.16 million viewers per game.
New York–Atlanta's Game 1 averaged 1.2 million viewers on ABC, ESPN told OutKick.
Las Vegas–Golden State averaged 1.12 million on NBC and Peacock, according to figures NBC supplied to OutKick.
Just one Sunday earlier, Indiana's first-round opener against Las Vegas averaged 2.11 million viewers on ABC.
That Sept.
27 game also aired opposite the NFL, yet drew approximately 76% more viewers than New York–Atlanta's semifinal opener on the same network a week later.
The stakes went up, but the audience went down.
That's a pretty good answer to anyone still wondering how much Caitlin Clark means to the WNBA's television business.
The 2.32 million average covers four Fever games on ABC, four on CBS and two on NBC, using reported audiences from the regular season.
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