NBC Sports has tabbed a trio of announcers to call the WNBA for the network’s first year back with the league.
Play-by-play broadcasters Noah Eagle, Michael Grady, and Zora Stephenson will call games for the network this season, sources told Front Office Sports. An NBC spokesperson declined to comment.
Eagle is NBC’s lead college football announcer. He also calls NBA games for the network and previously announced men’s and women’s Olympic basketball in Paris in 2024. Stephenson calls women’s college basketball and is also a sideline reporter for NBA games. Grady calls the NBA and WNBA for both NBC and Amazon; he will be on Amazon’s lead WNBA announce team with Candace Parker this season.
It has yet to be announced how many WNBA games will be on NBC and how many will be Peacock-exclusive.
When NBCUniversal first announced the deal in 2024, it said that there would be at least 50 WNBA regular-season and playoff games across NBC, Peacock, and USA Network, with five airing on the NBC broadcast network. The league’s official schedule is expected to be announced soon.
USA Network has since split off under the Versant umbrella, but retained a package of “at least” 50 WNBA games, including Finals games in select years. In January, USA announced that Kate Scott will be its lead play-by-play announcer, and Elle Duncan is hosting studio coverage.
NBC previously aired the WNBA from 1997-2002.
Earlier this week, FOS’s Annie Costabile broke the news that the WNBA and WNBPA have reached a verbal agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, ending a months-long labor standoff. The new salary cap will start at $7 million, with supermax contracts worth up to $1.4 million per year.
The WNBA season tips off on May 8.
