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Chicago Tribune
13-06-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Surge in viewers leads ION TV to extend current 3-year broadcasting deal with WNBA
NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark's arrival and a major surge in viewers over the past year led to ION Television reaching a multiyear agreement on Friday to extend its broadcasting partnership with the WNBA. ION, which is owned by the Cincinnati, Ohio-based, E.W. Scripps Company, did not reveal the length or value of the contract, which extends the network's original deal reached in 2023 to broadcast regular-season games and host a weekly studio show. The existing three-year deal is worth $13 million per season. In a release, ION said the average viewership for its WNBA Friday Night Spotlight show increased by 133% from 2023 to '24, and attracted more than 23 million unique viewers, including game coverage. The jump coincides with Clark's celebrated rookie season in Indiana last year. The network reaches more than 128 million homes though its various platforms. Last year, the WNBA struck an 11-year media rights deal with Disney, Amazon Prime and NBC that begins in 2026 and is worth about $200 million a year.
Washington Post
13-06-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Surge in viewers leads ION TV to extend current 3-year broadcasting deal with WNBA
NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark's arrival and a major surge in viewers over the past year led to ION Television reaching a multiyear agreement on Friday to extend its broadcasting partnership with the WNBA. ION, which is owned by the Cincinnati, Ohio-based, E.W. Scripps Company, did not reveal the length or value of the contract, which extends the network's original deal reached in 2023 to broadcast regular-season games and host a weekly studio show.
Associated Press
13-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Surge in viewers leads ION TV to extend current 3-year broadcasting deal with WNBA
NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark's arrival and a major surge in viewers over the past year led to ION Television reaching a multiyear agreement on Friday to extend its broadcasting partnership with the WNBA. ION, which is owned by the Cincinnati, Ohio-based, E.W. Scripps Company, did not reveal the length or value of the contract, which extends the network's original deal reached in 2023 to broadcast regular-season games and host a weekly studio show. The existing three-year deal is worth $13 million per season. In a release, ION said the average viewership for its WNBA Friday Night Spotlight show increased by 133% from 2023 to '24, and attracted more than 23 million unique viewers, including game coverage. The jump coincides with Clark's celebrated rookie season in Indiana last year. The network reaches more than 128 million homes though its various platforms. Last year, the WNBA struck an 11-year media rights deal with Disney, Amazon Prime and NBC that begins in 2026 and is worth about $200 million a year. ___ AP WNBA:
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Inland Northwest contestants eliminated in National Spelling Bee's first two days
May 28—WASHINGTON — The 100th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee continued for a second day on Wednesday, with some especially tough words eliminating the remaining contestants from the Northwest. Gabriel Aguirre of Spokane Valley, 11, was eliminated in the first round on Tuesday when he misspelled "ape-ape," an herb that grows in Hawaii. He can try again next year and will be eligible until age 14. Navtaj Singh of Pullman, 14, and in his last year of eligibility, correctly spelled "nouveau" and defined "vehemence" before being stumped by "subgum," a Chinese dish, in round 4. Andrew Ford of Sandpoint, 14, successfully spelled "svarabhakti" — a word of Sanskrit origin that describes introducing a vowel between consonants — and had no trouble defining "trespass" in round 2. But in round 3, a written test that was added to this year's bee, he didn't meet the threshold to advance. Sonu Murali Mohan of Boise, 11, spelled "Ouagadougou," the capital of Burkina Faso, in the first round. But he was tripped up in round 2 by the definition of "vicarious." The National Spelling Bee finals take place in prime time on Thursday and will air on ION Television, which is owned by Scripps, starting at 5 p.m. Orion Donovan Smith's work is funded in part by members of the Spokane community via the Community Journalism and Civic Engagement Fund. This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact our newspaper's managing editor.
