WNBA All-Star Game On ABC Up 17 Percent
The Verizon WNBA All-Star Game (Saturday, July 28, 3:30 p.m. ET) averaged 709,000 viewers, up 17 percent year over year. The 2018 All-Star Game, which saw Team Parker defeat Team Delle Donne 119-112, peaked at 849,000 viewers (5:45 – 6 p.m.), and is the most-viewed all-star game since 2015, which aired on ABC and ESPN.
Top Markets
Host city Minneapolis and Hartford/New Haven topped the charts with a 1.6 local market rating, followed by Oklahoma City (1.5), Norfolk and San Antonio (1.4) and Charlotte (1.2). The top 10 markets include:
| Rank | Markets | Rating |
| 1 | Minneapolis-St. Paul | 1.6 |
| Hartford & New Haven | 1.6 | |
| 3 | Oklahoma City | 1.5 |
| 4 | Norfolk | 1.4 |
| San Antonio | 1.4 | |
| 6 | Charlotte | 1.2 |
| 7 | Greenville | 1.1 |
| 8 | Washington, DC | 1.0 |
| 9 | Nashville | 0.9 |
| 10 | Columbus, OH | 0.8 |
ESPN’s coverage of the WNBA continues with three more matchups on ESPN2 – Minnesota Lynx at Los Angeles Sparks (Thursday, Aug. 2, 10 p.m.), Los Angeles Sparks at Phoenix Mercury (Sunday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m.), and Washington Mystic at Minnesota Lynx (Sunday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m.).
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