{"id":8089079,"date":"2026-10-02T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=8089079"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:42:24","slug":"netflix-womens-world-cup-broadcast-team-rebecca-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/culture-lifestyle\/sports\/netflix-womens-world-cup-broadcast-team-rebecca-lowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Lowe Joins Netflix\u2019s Women\u2019s World Cup Broadcast Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

NBC Sports host Rebecca Lowe is joining Netflix\u2019s broadcast team for the 2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup, chief content officer Bela Bajaria announced Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowe, the longtime host of NBC Sports\u2019 Premier League coverage, most recently anchored Fox Sports\u2019 coverage of the 2026 men\u2019s World Cup alongside Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107 and Alexi Lalas. She joins previously announced broadcasters<\/a> Elle Duncan and Andr\u00e9s Cantor on Netflix\u2019s team for next summer\u2019s tournament in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited also to announce that we have added Rebecca Lowe to the broadcast team, who is so amazing, so seasoned, so respected,\u201d Bajaria said during Puck and MoffettNathanson\u2019s In the Arena conference<\/a> on Thursday in New York. \u201cReally excited to be able to bring that kind of broadcast talent to our team on Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bela Bajaria and John Ourand speak at Puck x MoffettNathanson’s In the Arena at Second NYC on Oct. 1, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok\/Getty Images for Puck)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The addition comes as Netflix prepares to stream all 64 matches of the Women\u2019s World Cup in the U.S. and Canada, where the streamer holds exclusive rights<\/a> to the tournament in 2027 and 2031. The ’27 tournament will run from June 24 through July 25 across eight cities in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowe has led NBC Sports\u2019 Premier League coverage since 2013 and has hosted seven consecutive Olympic Games for the network. She previously worked for ESPN in the U.S. and U.K., including on the network’s coverage of the 2011 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her addition also comes as Netflix continues expanding its live sports footprint<\/a> while taking a selective approach to acquiring rights. Bajaria said the streamer is focused on identifying sporting events it can turn into cultural moments rather than simply building a traditional year-round sports portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe strategy for us is to just say, like, what\u2019s really an event, and eventize a moment,\u201d Bajaria said. \u201cIt can be a Christmas Day game. It can be opening week. It can be opening game of, you know, MLB.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt can be Women\u2019s World Cup,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo it\u2019s just what is sort of a sporting event we can create a lot of conversation around to make it very sort of appointment television.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Netflix, Bajaria noted, an \u201cevent\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a one-off game. It can also encompass a tournament with a defined narrative arc \u2014 \u201ca beginning, a middle, and there\u2019s a defined end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exec pointed to Netflix\u2019s relationship with the NFL<\/a> as another example of that approach. Bajaria said the league understood early on why Netflix wanted to center its football presence around Christmas and the entertainment opportunities surrounding the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also recalled calling the NFL to tell the league Beyonc\u00e9 would perform at halftime during Netflix\u2019s Christmas Day coverage. \u201cI was like, \u2018We\u2019re an entertainment company. Of course Beyonc\u00e9 is going to do the halftime,\u2019\u201d Bajaria said, adding that the resulting Beyonc\u00e9 Bowl was “really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The NBC Sports host comes to the streamer after anchoring Fox\u2019s 2026 men\u2019s World Cup coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10255,"featured_media":8089739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"byline":{"profiles":[{"type":"byline_id","atts":{"term_id":516552,"post_id":8042599}}]},"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"nb_breaking_email_type":"","nb_breaking_template":"","nb_breaking_from_name":"","nb_breaking_subject":"","nb_breaking_preview":"","nb_breaking_list":[],"nb_breaking_header_img":0,"nb_breaking_should_send":false,"nb_breaking_content":"","nb_newsletter_sent_breaking_post_id":[],"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-10-02T17:29:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"296e26b3-ce84-4b66-aa12-13bc02cb6ee6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-10-02T17:42:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKW4ms86ES2aqEhO8Astu5g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"hide_featured_image":false,"the_wrap_post_enable_full_width_featured_image":false,"the_wrap_post_enable_featured_video":false,"the_wrap_post_featured_video":"","the_wrap_post_disable_read_more":false,"wp_curate_deduplication":false,"wp_curate_unique_pinned_posts":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279383,275113,411758],"tags":[283080,517596,290468,297627,99,510407,517616],"tw_data_partners":[],"columns":[],"byline":[516552],"class_list":["post-8089079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-sports","category-streaming","tag-bela-bajaria","tag-in-the-arena","tag-john-ourand","tag-moffettnathanson","tag-netflix","tag-puck","tag-rebecca-lowe"],"newsletter_builder_byline":"A.J. Katz","is_pro_article":false,"apple_news_notices":[],"eyebrow":{"link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/culture-lifestyle\/sports\/","text":"Sports"},"tw_schema_org_review":{"name":"","type":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089079"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8089938,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089079\/revisions\/8089938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8089739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089079"},{"taxonomy":"tw_data_partners","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tw_data_partners?post=8089079"},{"taxonomy":"tw_column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/columns?post=8089079"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8089079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}