TNT Sports signs WNBA deal

TNT Sports activities and the Girls’s Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (WNBA) have introduced a multi-year deal to air WNBA video games within the UK and Eire.

Followers will be capable to watch a minimum of 16 regular-season WNBA video games every season stay and on-demand through TNT Sports activities and discovery+ because the 12 groups battle it out for the WNBA Championship. TNT Sports activities’ WNBA protection suggestions off on  Could fifteenth (BST) with final yr’s runners-up the New York Liberty, led by 2023 MVP Breanna Stewart, 2021 league MVP Jonquel Jones and 2023 All-WNBA Second Group choice Sabrina Ionescu, travelling to the nation’s capital to tackle the Washington Mystics, that includes two-time WNBA All-Star Ariel Atkins and 2023 WNBA All-Defensive First Group choice Brittney Sykes.

TNT Sports activities will broadcast weekend WNBA video games in primetime throughout the common season. Along with regular-season video games, TNT Sports activities will broadcast choose video games from the WNBA Playoffs, WNBA Finals and the annual WNBA All-Star Recreation.

To enhance stay sport protection, all through the season TNT Sports activities’ digital and social platforms may also present followers with weekly WNBA spotlight.

Trojan Paillot, SVP Sports activities Rights Acquisitions and Syndication at Warner Bros Discovery Europe, stated: “We’re delighted to indicate the elite athletes that star within the WNBA starting with the 2024 season, strengthening our ladies’s sport providing within the UK and Eire which already contains Premiership Girls’s Rugby, UEFA Girls’s Champions League soccer, and Girls’s UFC. The chance to broadcast the WNBA is one other step to reflecting the variety of our viewers, whereas on the similar time complementing our present basketball rights such because the NBA.”

Colie Edison, Chief Progress Officer at WNBA, added: “We’re thrilled to collaborate with TNT Sports activities to deliver the thrill of the WNBA to followers within the UK and Eire. There’s unbelievable momentum round ladies’s basketball within the area, and now followers will be capable to extra simply comply with their favourite WNBA groups and gamers all through the season.”

In October 2023, TNT Sports activities and the NBA introduced a multiyear broadcast collaboration to ship greater than 250 stay video games and a variety of NBA programming to followers within the UK and Eire, together with the Emirates NBA Cup (previously the In-Season Event), the NBA Playoffs, the Finals and NBA All-Star.