{"id":411388,"date":"2026-01-15T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:38:08","slug":"kate-scott-joins-ufc-324-broadcast-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411388\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Scott Joins UFC 324 Broadcast Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Sports veteran Kate Scott has been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-324\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> broadcast team as the on-site desk host for the promotion&#8217;s first event under its new Paramount+ media deal.<\/p>\n<p>Scott will anchor studio coverage from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on January 24, hosting pre-fight, intermission, and post-fight segments alongside analysts Michael Bisping, Dominick Cruz, and Chris Weidman. The broadcast will also feature Joe Rogan, Jon Anik, and Daniel Cormier on commentary.<\/p>\n<p>MMA journalist Ariel Helwani praised the hiring on social media, calling it an &#8220;unbelievable coup for the UFC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is one of the absolute best, most professional talented hosts\/broadcasters I&#8217;ve ever worked with. Fight fan. She instantly raises the profile of the events, IMO. Massive,&#8221; Helwani wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Scott brings extensive sports broadcasting experience to the UFC, having hosted major UEFA club competitions and global football events for CBS, along with previous work for CNN, Sky, and Fox.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 324 is headlined by an interim lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett, with Sean O&#8217;Malley vs. Song Yadong also featured on the card. The event marks the UFC&#8217;s transition to Paramount+ streaming rather than traditional pay-per-view in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports veteran Kate Scott has been added to the UFC 324 broadcast team as the on-site desk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,153471],"class_list":{"0":"post-411388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-324"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}