A year ago, the WNBA signed an 11-year media rights deal with NBCUniversal (along with Disney and Amazon) that included a slate of games on its USA Network cable channel.

A few months later, NBCU announced plans to spin off USA Network and other cable assets into a separate company, eventually named Versant . With the pending spinoff, Versant has now signed its own deal with the WNBA to keep the league on USA.

Like NBCUniversal’s deal, Versant’s will run from 2026-36. It will also increase the number of games on USA to 50 per year — the language in the 2024 deal said all NBCU platforms would host about 50 regular-season games, split among NBC, Peacock and USA. The Versant deal will feature Wednesday doubleheaders during the regular season and some postseason games.

A year ag

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