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WNBA Finals Game 1 - Mercury vs Sky

Nielsen average audience: 548,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2021-10-10 Sunday
Networks
ABC
Teams
Mercury · Sky
548,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 2 sources · final
figures last changed 2021-10-19

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen2 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
combined / full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
548,000
The four-game Sky-Mercury WNBA Finals averaged 548,000 viewers Sports Media Watch, verbatim
via pressaverage audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
456,000
Sunday's series opener averaged a 0.28 rating and 456,000 viewers on ABC, marking the largest Game 1 audience since 2017 (Sparks-Lynx: 0.39, 566K). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
combined counts all networks and streams · press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

WNBA Finals by year

2010–2025
Record
2.1M 2024
This telecast
#13 of 18 Panel + Out-of-Home
Years on record
16 2010–2025
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
1M2M3M2021 · WNBA Finals Game 1 · 548K2010 · WNBA Finals Game 3 · 545K2011 · WNBA Finals Game 3 · 600K2012 · WNBA Finals Game 2 · 778K2013 · WNBA Finals Game 1 · 391K2014 · WNBA Finals Game 2 · 763K2015 · WNBA Finals Game 5 · 583K2016 · WNBA Finals Game 1 · 597K2017 · WNBA Finals Game 5 · 902K2018 · WNBA Finals Game 2 · 546K2019 · WNBA Finals Game 2 · 499K2020 · WNBA Finals Game 3 · 570K2021 · WNBA Finals Game 1 · 548K2022 · WNBA Finals Game 3 · 579K2023 · WNBA Finals Game 4 · 889K2024 · WNBA Finals Game 5 · 2.1M2025 · WNBA Finals Game 1 · 1.9M20122014201620182020202220242026
  • Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
  • Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
  • Big Data + Panelsince Sept 2025
56 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 20:38 UTC

WNBA Finals Game 1, every year on record

This telecast: #4 of 5 Game 1 telecasts in the Panel + Out-of-Home era

Big Data + Panel
  1. 2025ESPN1,860,000
Panel + Out-of-Home
  1. 2024ESPN1,140,000
  2. 2023ABC729,000
  3. 2022ABC555,000
  4. 2021ABC456,000
  5. 2020ESPN2344,000
9 earlier Game 1 telecasts
Before Out-of-Home
  1. 2019ESPN234,000
  2. 2017ABC566,000
  3. 2016ABC597,000
  4. 2015ABC571,000
  5. 2014ABC627,000
  6. 2013ESPN391,000
  7. 2012ESPN2 · ESPN343,000
  8. 2011ESPN491,000
  9. 2010ABC450,000
15 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 20:38 UTC
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
YearTelecastAvg audience
2010WNBA Finals Game 1450,000
2010WNBA Finals Game 2487,000
2010WNBA Finals Game 3545,000
2011WNBA Finals Game 1491,000
2011WNBA Finals Game 2447,000
2011WNBA Finals Game 3600,000
2012WNBA Finals Game 1343,000
2012WNBA Finals Game 2778,000
2012WNBA Finals Game 3337,000
2012WNBA Finals Game 4433,000
2013WNBA Finals Game 1391,000
2013WNBA Finals Game 2328,000
2013WNBA Finals Game 3321,000
2014WNBA Finals Game 1627,000
2014WNBA Finals Game 2763,000
2015WNBA Finals Game 1571,000
2015WNBA Finals Game 2410,000
2015WNBA Finals Game 3432,000
2015WNBA Finals Game 4493,000
2015WNBA Finals Game 5583,000
2016WNBA Finals Game 1597,000
2016WNBA Finals Game 2446,000
2016WNBA Finals Game 3363,000
2016WNBA Finals Game 4512,000
2016WNBA Finals Game 5528,000
2017WNBA Finals Game 1566,000
2017WNBA Finals Game 2381,000
2017WNBA Finals Game 3433,000
2017WNBA Finals Game 4491,000
2017WNBA Finals Game 5902,000
2018WNBA Finals Game 2546,000
2018WNBA Finals Game 3519,000
2019WNBA Finals Game 1234,000
2019WNBA Finals Game 2499,000
2019WNBA Finals Game 4312,000
2019WNBA Finals Game 5440,000
2020WNBA Finals Game 1344,000
2020WNBA Finals Game 2405,000
2020WNBA Finals Game 3570,000
2021WNBA Finals Game 1548,000
2021WNBA Finals Game 3524,000
2021WNBA Finals Game 4417,000
2022WNBA Finals Game 1555,000
2022WNBA Finals Game 3579,000
2022WNBA Finals Game 4396,000
2023WNBA Finals Game 1729,000
2023WNBA Finals Game 2626,000
2023WNBA Finals Game 3659,000
2023WNBA Finals Game 4889,000
2024WNBA Finals Game 11,140,000
2024WNBA Finals Game 21,350,000
2024WNBA Finals Game 31,390,000
2024WNBA Finals Game 41,670,000
2024WNBA Finals Game 52,150,000
2025WNBA Finals Game 11,860,000
2025WNBA Finals Game 41,440,000

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