{"id":99948,"date":"2025-12-18T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99948\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:23:10","slug":"sportscenter-host-elle-duncan-leaves-espn-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99948\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SportsCenter&#8221; host Elle Duncan leaves ESPN for Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ESPN veteran Elle Duncan is leaving the network next year to become the lead host for Netflix Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The streamer announced Thursday that Duncan will be the signature talent for its growing roster of live sports events. She will make her Netflix debut next year for with Skyscraper Live, where free solo climber Alex Honnold will attempt to scale Taipei 101, the tallest building in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan, 42, had her final \u201cSportsCenter\u201d appearance on Wednesday. In addition to ESPN\u2019s flagship show, she appeared on \u201cWNBA Countdown\u201d and \u201cCollege GameDay.\u201d She joined ESPN in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan will be familiar face to sports fans, some of whom are still adapting to watching sports on a streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElle Duncan\u2019s proven ability to seamlessly move between hard-hitting sports analysis and warm, personality-driven cultural hosting makes her a perfect fit at Netflix,\u201d Gabe Spitzer, Vice President, Sports, Netflix said in a statement. \u201cShe immediately adds credibility and familiar star power to our global programming slate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has been expanding its portfolio of live sporting events, including a new deal with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2025-11-19\/la-fi-netflix-mlb-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Major League Baseball<\/a> that gives the streamer the right to the season opener, the Home Run Derby and the Field of Dreams game for the next three years. <\/p>\n<p>Netflix also has <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2024-05-15\/netflix-will-carry-two-exclusive-nfl-christmas-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a double header of NFL games on Christmas day<\/a> and has been the platform for a number of boxing events, including Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford super middleweight bout in September.<\/p>\n<p>The streamer also became the exclusive video home for podcasts from Barstool Sports, the bro-centric digital media company led by Dave Portnoy. The video versions of \u201cPardon My Take,\u201d \u201cThe Ryen Russillo Podcast,\u201d and \u201cSpittin Chiclets\u201d will stream on Netflix starting next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN veteran Elle Duncan is leaving the network next year to become the lead host for Netflix Sports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21538,54525,750,54526,48,52,51,54528,47,50,49,54530,9233,54529,54532,127,54527,4567,41188,54531,20677],"class_list":["post-99948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-appearance","tag-duncan","tag-espn","tag-host-elle-duncan","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-live-sport-event","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-middleweight-bout","tag-netflix","tag-network-next-year","tag-nfl-game","tag-sports","tag-sportscenter","tag-streamer","tag-streaming-platform","tag-terence-crawford","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}