Telecasts · WNBA
WNBA Finals Game 1
1,900,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2025-10-07
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full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Friday's Mercury-Aces WNBA Finals Game 1 averaged 1.9 million viewers on ESPN, up 62% from Lynx-Liberty last year (1.1M) and the most-watched Finals opener since the inaugural edition in 1997, a single-elimination Liberty-Comets game that averaged 2.8 million on NBC.Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1,900,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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