{"id":427128,"date":"2026-01-23T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:21:07","slug":"elle-duncan-lands-new-role-covering-wnba-after-espn-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427128\/","title":{"rendered":"Elle Duncan Lands New Role Covering WNBA After ESPN Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5g\">Elle Duncan left ESPN last month when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/media\/netflix-hires-espn-elle-duncan-to-lead-sports-coverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she joined Netflix<\/a> to lead the streaming service\u2019s sports coverage. She gave up her SportsCenter co-hosting role at ESPN, along with her hosting women\u2019s basketball coverage on the network.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5j\">It sounds like Duncan won\u2019t be absent from women\u2019s basketball coverage for long though. On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/22\/usa-sports-taps-elle-duncan-as-studio-host-for-wnba-coverage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal reported<\/a> that Duncan has been hired to be the studio host of USA Network\u2019s WNBA coverage for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">USA Network will showcase 50 WNBA games each year under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/wnba-agrees-to-multi-year-media-rights-deal-with-versant-usa-network\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new media deal agreed upon<\/a> last September. The coverage will include games in the regular season, the playoffs and the WNBA Finals. Wednesday nights will include pre-game and post-game coverage for double-headers featured on the network. The belief is that Duncan will host those studio shows.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">While Netflix allows Duncan to explore other opportunities outside of the streaming service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/media\/elle-duncan-espn-fully-part-ways-amid-new-role-netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN fully parted ways with Duncan<\/a>, meaning she won\u2019t be back at ESPN while holding the new position at Netflix. Duncan will make her Netflix debut on Friday, Jan. 23 during Skyscraper Live, where free solo climber Alex Honnold will attempt to scale Taipei 101 in Taiwan. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">Duncan previously hosted WNBA Countdown on ESPN and also hosted the women\u2019s college basketball Final Four coverage on the network.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle Duncan left ESPN last month when she joined Netflix to lead the streaming service\u2019s sports coverage. She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-427128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427128","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=427128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}