As part of the new WNBA media rights deal running through 2036, NBC will broadcast more than 50 WNBA regular-season and first-round playoff games each season across Peacock, NBC, and USA throughout the deal, as well as seven WNBA Conference semifinals and three WNBA Finals series.

The Network’s coverage of the league will feature  Zora Stephenson, Noah Eagle, and Michael Grady calling games; Maria Taylor, Sue Bird, and Cheryl Miller as a studio trio, and LaChina Robinson and Sarah Kustok as game analysts.

The media conglomerate’s first WNBA broadcast will be a May 10 Las Vegas Aces-Los Angeles Sparks game on USA Network, and it’s getting ready to launch a new marketing campaign ahead of the much-anticipated tipoff.

According to Sports Business Journal, NBC Sports is set to debut a new marketing spot on Saturday during the Kentucky Derby, starring Aces center A’ja Wilson, Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu, and Wings guard Paige Bueckers.

In a creative effort helmed by NBC SVP/Sports Marketing Lyndsay Signor and her team and reminiscent of ESPN’s famous “This is SportsCenter” campaign, the spot features Saturday Night Live star Chloe Fineman leading the stars through a faux NBC office for their “first day of work” as they pass through pictures of some of the network’s most famous female stars over the years, including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Betty White.

Sue Bird will also be interviewed during the Derby broadcast. NBC’s first game on its flagship network will be on May 17 between the Aces and Atlanta Dream.

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Samsung is reportedly leasing 140,000 square feet warehouse at the Park79 Commerce Center, an industrial park sitting right on US 79 near its chip plant in Taylor, Texas.

According to TaylorPress, the source had direct knowledge of the deal, while Samsung declined to comment. That’s 40% of the entire Park79 development, locked up by a company that officially won’t admit it’s the tenant.

Samsung’s Taylor fab is inching toward full operation, anchored in part by a reported $16 billion chip contract with Tesla running through 2033.

The Taylor plant was announced in November 2021 with an initial $17 billion investment. By the end of 2026, it’s expected to directly employ around 1,500 people, with hundreds more supplier jobs trailing behind.

Samsung has operated in Texas since breaking ground in Austin back in March 1996. It knows how this state works. Now it’s quietly stitching together real estate around Taylor before the doors are even fully open.

The warehouse lease isn’t a footnote; it’s a signal that Samsung is building something permanent here, and doing it without asking anyone’s permission first.

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