WNBA inks new TV deal with Ion

[LadyStanley]

WNBA strikes TV deal with new broadcast partner

The WNBA will air on the Ion Television network Friday nights this season as part of a new multiyear contract signed this month.

theathletic.com

Who? Another "Outdoor Network "?

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[LadyStanley]

WNBA partners with Scripps to broadcast Friday night games

The WNBA and Scripps have signed a multiyear deal to televise Friday night regular-season games on ION. “Fans would understand every Friday on the broadest platform, they could gather around the television and watch the WNBA," Scripps president and CEO Adam Symson said in a phone interview...

sports.yahoo.com

AP story

 

[KevFu]

WNBA strikes TV deal with new broadcast partner

The WNBA will air on the Ion Television network Friday nights this season as part of a new multiyear contract signed this month.

theathletic.com

Who? Another "Outdoor Network "?

Ion is a broadcast channel, not cable. It's free to almost all households.

It's actually a really smart idea, because you have people who are kids in poor, urban areas who's families can't afford cable to watch NBA on ESPN/Turner... can watch the WNBA on Ion.

You're "normalizing" women's sports for a generation, like how soccer was such a foreign thing in the US in the 1990s, and now, you don't have people UPSET that Soccer is on their TV.

 

[joelef]

Ion is a broadcast channel, not cable. It's free to almost all households.

It's actually a really smart idea, because you have people who are kids in poor, urban areas who's families can't afford cable to watch NBA on ESPN/Turner... can watch the WNBA on Ion.

You're "normalizing" women's sports for a generation, like how soccer was such a foreign thing in the US in the 1990s, and now, you don't have people UPSET that Soccer is on their TV.

Now maybe if woman actually watched it and not try to guilt men.

 

[KevFu]

Now maybe if woman actually watched it and not try to guilt men.

But see, you and I are old. Young people don't have disdain for it. And that's the entire point.

When we were young, the people who are our current age would be OPENLY HOSTILE to soccer, much like people are opening hostile to women's sports now.

But the kids who came along after that, it was normal to see soccer being covered like the Big Four.

You better get used to seeing women's sports on TV, because their TV rights are dirt cheap compared to the men.

 

[GindyDraws]

Usually the worst teams are on these Non-ESPN deals so get used to the Indiana Fever.

 

[oknazevad]

This is clearly a move for the post-cord-cutting world. Broadcast network, not cable.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Ion is a broadcast channel, not cable. It's free to almost all households.

It's actually a really smart idea, because you have people who are kids in poor, urban areas who's families can't afford cable to watch NBA on ESPN/Turner... can watch the WNBA on Ion.

You're "normalizing" women's sports for a generation, like how soccer was such a foreign thing in the US in the 1990s, and now, you don't have people UPSET that Soccer is on their TV.

You could pay people to watch the WNBA and they still won't watch it.

 

[KevFu]

You could pay people to watch the WNBA and they still won't watch it.

It's funny how your open hostility to the WNBA basically proves my point.