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Fever-Aces Game 1 sets ABC record for most-watched WNBA playoff game

The opening matchup of the postseason series between the Indiana squad and the defending champions from Las Vegas drew an average audience of 2.1 million people on the ABC network, reaching a peak of 2.6 million viewers. This performance established a new viewership high-water mark for a postseason broadcast on the channel, more than doubling the audience from a comparable matchup in the previous year.

Despite competing against Sunday afternoon National Football League broadcasts on other networks and a golf tournament on NBC, the postseason broadcast flourished on broadcast television. Even so, this audience figure remained below a few regular-season broadcasts from earlier in the year, such as an August contest that reached 3.31 million viewers and a July meeting between the same two franchises that brought in 2.64 million viewers.

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