List of WNBA All-Star Game broadcasters

The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that have broadcast the WNBA All-Star Game.

2020s

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Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Sideline reporter(s) Studio host Studio analyst(s)
2024 ABC[1] Ryan Ruocco Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe LaChina Robinson Andraya Carter, Carolyn Peck and Chiney Ogwumike
2023 ABC[2] Ryan Ruocco Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe LaChina Robinson Andraya Carter, Carolyn Peck and Ros Gold-Onwude
2022 ABC[3] Ryan Ruocco Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe LaChina Robinson Carolyn Peck
2021 ESPN[4] Ryan Ruocco Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe

2010s

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Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Sideline reporter(s) Studio host Studio analyst(s)
2019 ABC[5] Ryan Ruocco[6][7] Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe and LaChina Robinson
2018 ABC[8][9][10] Ryan Ruocco[11] Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe and LaChina Robinson
2017 ABC[12] Ryan Ruocco[13] Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe[14] and LaChina Robinson
2015 ABC[15] Ryan Ruocco[16] Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe Matt Barrie[17] Chiney Ogwumike
2014 ESPN[18][19] Ryan Ruocco[20] Rebecca Lobo Holly Rowe[21] Doug Kezerian
2013 ABC[22] Ryan Ruocco[23][24] Rebecca Lobo[25] Holly Rowe
2011 ABC[26] Dave Pasch[27][28] Carolyn Peck Heather Cox
2010 ESPN[29] Terry Gannon[30] Carolyn Peck Heather Cox and Rebecca Lobo

Notes

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  • No official All-Star Game was held in 2010. Instead, there was an exhibition game matching the USA national team against a WNBA All-Star team, with Team USA winning 99–72 at Mohegan Sun Arena. And as previously mentioned, no games were held at all in 2012 and 2016 due to the Summer Olympic games.

2000s

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Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Sideline reporter(s) Studio host Studio analyst(s)
2009 ABC[31][32][33] Dave Pasch Nancy Lieberman and Carolyn Peck Heather Cox and Rebecca Lobo
2007 ABC[34][35] Dave Pasch Doris Burke Heather Cox and Rebecca Lobo Linda Cohn Nancy Lieberman
2006 ESPN[36][37][38] Dave Pasch Doris Burke Heather Cox Linda Cohn[39]
2005 ABC[40][41][42][43] Terry Gannon Doris Burke Rebecca Lobo[44][45][46] Pam Ward
2004 ESPN[47][48][49] Terry Gannon Ann Meyers and Greg Anthony Doris Burke Pam Ward
2003 ABC[50][51] Mark Jones Ann Meyers Doris Burke[52] and Lea B. Olsen Pam Ward Nancy Lieberman and Bill Laimbeer
2002 ESPN[53][54] Doris Burke[55]
2001 ESPN[56][57] John Saunders Nancy Lieberman Fran Harris and Lea B. Olsen Robin Roberts Sheryl Swoopes and Vera Jones
2000 ESPN[58][59][60] Robin Roberts[61] Jay Bilas

Notes

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  • In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN. The new television deal runs from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games will be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 each season; the rights to broadcast the first regular-season game and the All-Star Game are held by ABC. Additionally, a minimum of 11 postseason games will be broadcast on any of the three stations.[62] Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" will be "dispersed to the league's teams".
  • In 2004, the game was not played in its usual format due to the WNBA players competing in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. That year, the USA national team defeated a team of WNBA All-Stars 74-58 at Radio City Music Hall. This game is officially considered to be an exhibition rather than an All-Star Game. The league also took a month-long break to accommodate players and coaches who would be participating in the summer games. The tradition of not playing the WNBA All-Star Game during an Olympic year has continued in 2008, 2012, and 2016 (along with the tradition of taking a month-long break during the regular season.)

1999

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Year Network Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Sideline reporter(s) Studio host Studio analyst(s)
1999 ESPN[63] Robin Roberts Pat Summitt Jay Bilas and Tiffany Wright John Saunders Nancy Lieberman

See also

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