TNT Sports to air WNBA | News

TNT Sports activities has agreed a multi-year rights cope with the WNBA.

The broadcaster, which already reveals over 250 games-a-year from the lads’s NBA after a deal agreed final 12 months, will air at the least 16 regular-season WNBA video games every season stay and on-demand through TNT Sports activities and discovery+. It would additionally broadcast choose video games from the WNBA Playoffs, WNBA Finals and the annual WNBA All-Star Sport.

In the course of the common season, TNT Sports activities will present weekend WNBA video games in primetime, in addition to different fixtures. It’s protection begins on 15 Might with final 12 months’s runner up New York Liberty going through the Washington Mystics.

As well as, TNT Sports activities’ digital and social platforms will present weekly WNBA highlights and clips.

Trojan Paillot, SVP of 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 girls’s sport providing within the UK and Eire which already consists of 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 range of our viewers, whereas on the similar time complementing our present basketball rights such because the NBA.”

Colie Edison, chief development officer, WNBA, stated: “We’re thrilled to collaborate with TNT Sports activities to convey the thrill of the WNBA to followers within the UK and Eire. There may be unbelievable momentum round girls’s basketball within the area, and now followers will be capable of extra simply comply with their favourite WNBA groups and gamers all through the season.”