Prior to 2005,[3] the channel carried a limited schedule of regular season WNBA games produced by NBA TV.
Oxygen had de facto picked up the games that previously aired on Lifetime.
Oxygen joined NBC,[10][11][12] ESPN[13] and ESPN2[14] in televising WNBA games for the 2002 season.
The deal called for NBA Productions[15] to produce the games, and the league would sell the ad time.
By 2004,[23] Oxygen's ratings dropped to a 0.1 from a 0.2, though only five games aired on the network that year compared with 13 from 2003.