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The WNBA’s popularity surge from the 2023 season not only continues but even grows this year. People are excited about the sport because of the arrival of rookie phenoms like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Regardless of which teams make it to the championship round, ESPN and ABC are hoping for record-breaking ratings for the 2024 WNBA Finals. Clark’s Indiana Fever and Reese’s Chicago Sky are currently competing for the eighth and final playoff spot. We now have official confirmation from company officials that ESPN will no longer be the exclusive broadcaster for the Finals series due to the growing interest in the WNBA. Burke Magnus, president of content for ESPN, stated last week on an episode of the podcast “Sports Media with Richard Deitsch” that having exclusive rights to the WNBA Finals and Warner Bros. in the future was not necessarily essential. The obvious choice to inquire about the possibility of sharing the rights to the series is Discovery. Important Facts: Following the NBA season in 2024–25, the WNBA’s current rights agreement with ESPN, Ion, and Prime Video comes to an end. Sharing Finals rights could help the sport grow and attract more viewers to other WNBA games on ESPN. If WBD loses NBA rights, it needs to keep adding sports to TNT.