USA: WNBA TV rights to be sold to ESPN, NBC & Amazon for $200m/year from 2025 (press)

The American broadcasting groups NBCUniversal, ESPN (The Walt Disney Company) and the e-commerce group Amazon are reportedly close to acquiring the TV rights to the WNBA in the United States from 2025, according to US media outlet The Athletic on 17/07/2024.

The deal, estimated to be worth $200m per season (€183m), or a total of $2.2bn (€2bn), would be integrated into the future domestic media rights agreement that the NBA is about to sign with the same broadcasters. According to The Athletic, the NBA approved the awarding of the North American league's TV rights to NBCUniversal, ESPN and Amazon from 2025 onwards (see below) on 16/07/2024.

The WNBA's domestic broadcasting rights are currently held by ESPN, Amazon and the Ion Television group until 2025 for an estimated $50m per year. The annual deal would therefore be four times higher than the current one.

• The WNBA is also reportedly looking to market two additional packages of domestic TV rights from 2025, worth a total of $60m, according to The Athletic.

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