{"id":422987,"date":"2026-01-22T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/422987\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:56:07","slug":"usa-sports-taps-elle-duncan-as-studio-host-for-wnba-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/422987\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Sports taps Elle Duncan as studio host for WNBA coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elle Duncan\u2019s recent move to Netflix<\/a> to serve as an on-air host across sports and live events for the streaming giant drew significant attention within sports media circles. The host will make her Netflix debut Friday<\/a> on \u201cSkyscraper Live,\u201d a two-hour global event where free solo climber Alex Honnold will attempt to scale Taipei 101, the tallest building in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

As SBJ reported on Jan. 15, Duncan has the the freedom to do other assignments and SBJ has learned that Duncan will be officially announced on Thursday as the studio host for USA Sports\u2019 upcoming inaugural season of WNBA coverage. That assignment includes WNBA pre-and-postgame coverage on USA Network.<\/p>\n

Last September, the WNBA and Versant announced an 11-year media rights agreement for USA Network to air WNBA games, including the regular season and portions of the playoffs and WNBA Finals in select years. The deal begins with the 2026 WNBA season and runs through 2036. As part of the deal, USA Sports will present at least 50 WNBA games annually on USA Network. Wednesday nights will feature WNBA doubleheaders on USA Network and will include dedicated pre-game and post-game studio programming.<\/p>\n

Duncan found a nice niche at ESPN in women\u2019s basketball as the host of \u201cWNBA Countdown\u201d alongside Chiney Ogwumike and Andraya Carter. That trio also had a significant presence during ESPN\u2019s women\u2019s Final Four coverage, earning audience praise for the chemistry among the group as well as a collective passion for the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle Duncan\u2019s recent move to Netflix to serve as an on-air host across sports and live events for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,88,99,434,1765],"class_list":["post-422987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-entertainment","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}