{"id":45721,"date":"2025-10-07T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/wnba-finals-game-1-breaks-viewership-records-most-watched-since-1997\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:48:18","slug":"wnba-finals-game-1-breaks-viewership-records-most-watched-since-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/wnba-finals-game-1-breaks-viewership-records-most-watched-since-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals: Game 1 breaks viewership records, most watched since 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WNBA Finals: Highest-Viewed Opening Game in Recent History<\/h2>\n\n\nLas Vegas, Nevada \u2013 The opening game of the WNBA Finals has marked a significant milestone, recording the highest viewership for a Game 1 since the league&#8217;s inaugural season.\n\nAn average of 1.9 million viewers tuned in to Friday night&#8217;s game, where Las Vegas defeated Phoenix with a score of 89-86. This figure represents a 62% increase compared to last season&#8217;s matchup between New York and Minnesota.\n\nThe peak audience during the game reached 2.5 million viewers.\n\nIt should be noted that only the 1997 championship, which was a Game 1 of &#8220;all or nothing&#8221;, surpassed these viewership figures.\n\nThe audience data for Game 2 has not yet been released.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA Finals: Highest-Viewed Opening Game in Recent History Las Vegas, Nevada \u2013 The opening game of the WNBA Finals has marked a significant milestone, recording the highest viewership for a Game 1 since the league&#8217;s inaugural season. An average of 1.9 million viewers tuned in to Friday night&#8217;s game, where Las Vegas defeated Phoenix with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[376,451,9558,9295],"class_list":{"0":"post-45721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-espn","9":"tag-las-vegas","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-wnba-finals"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}