Netflix execs used to dismiss the idea that they might purchase stay sports activities rights. Now the world’s greatest premium streamer — which has offers with the NFL, MLB, the Girls’s World Cup, WWE and extra — has tapped its first on-air sports activities host: ESPN anchor Elle Duncan.
Duncan, identified for her work on ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” “Faculty GameDay” and “WNBA Countdown,” inked a multiyear take care of Netflix to function a number throughout the corporate’s lineup of sports activities and cultural stay occasions.
Duncan’s first internet hosting duties for the Large Crimson N will start in early 2026 with “Skyscraper Live,” where free solo climber Alex Honnold will attempt to scale Taipei 101 — the tallest constructing in Taiwan, at 1,667 ft.
Duncan stated in an announcement, “Becoming a member of Netflix appears like being invited to an already legendary social gathering and in some way getting handed the aux twine! For a lifelong utility participant, a multisport project is a full-circle second, and being trusted with one thing this one-of-a-kind feels extremely particular and surreal. I’m bringing boundless vitality, storytelling, and unhealthy puns nobody requested for however will probably be subjected to anyway.”
She added: “Additionally, I used to be informed this fast-tracks my youngsters to assembly the KPop Demon Hunters, soooo…win-win.”
“Elle Duncan’s confirmed capacity to seamlessly transfer between hard-hitting sports activities evaluation and heat, personality-driven cultural internet hosting makes her an ideal match at Netflix,” stated Gabe Spitzer, VP of sports activities at Netflix. “She instantly provides credibility and acquainted star energy to our international programming slate.”
Duncan joined ESPN in 2016, the place she hosted the 6 p.m. ET version of “SportsCenter.” On the Disney-owned sports activities large, she held key roles throughout faculty {and professional} basketball, together with internet hosting “Faculty GameDay” (girls’s basketball) and “WNBA Countdown.”
Beforehand, Duncan spent two years as anchor, host and reporter for the New England Sports activities Community (NESN) in Boston, most just lately internet hosting the each day NESN Dwell and NESN Sports activities At this time packages. Earlier than that, the Atlanta native labored in a lot of on-air positions in her residence metropolis on each TV and radio, together with as a sports activities anchor and reporter for NBC affiliate WXIA-TV from 2012-14. Duncan was a sideline reporter for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks for six years and a area reporter for Comcast Sports activities South on SEC and ACC soccer for 2 years.
Duncan started her broadcasting profession in 2003 as an leisure reporter for former Atlanta sports activities radio station 790 the Zone, then in 2005 started a seven-year profession as an on-air character with Atlanta hip-hop station V103. She expanded her radio work as co-host of pre-game, halftime and post-game reveals for the Atlanta Falcons Radio Community in 2010-11.
