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Sports programming from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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For other uses, see ABC Sports (disambiguation).

ABC Sport is the name given to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's sport programming broadcasts on ABC Television and ABC Radio. From November 2020 the brand includes the former ABC Radio Grandstand.[1]

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Since 2021, ABC Sport is a section of the ABC News website (part of ABC Online).[2] As of 2023, ABC Sport has no television sports rights.

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Television

Past

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Sports news programs

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The program Offsiders is first broadcast on the ABC on Sunday mornings, that reviews and debates the previous week's action. ABC News has Grandstand TV hosted by Peter Wilkins on weeknights at 5:30 pm[citation needed] and That Pacific Sports Show focusing on the latest news from the region.

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Radio

ABC Sport also hold the radio rights to several Australian and international sporting events, including Australian Football League, National Rugby League, A-League, Super Rugby, National Basketball League, Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Australian international cricket games and selected Ford Ranger One-Day Cup games, amongst other major sporting events.

Staff and commentators

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Australian Football League

ABC Sport's coverage of the AFL is the flagship sports programme in the southern states. Every game of the season is called by the ABC and is available live nationally on the ABC listen app via the AFL and AFL Extra channels. National radio coverage for games outside the home state is determined by the match with the highest appeal or if there is no clash with other games. ABC Local Radio stations and ABC Sport Digital on DAB+ in the NT, SA, VIC, TAS and WA carry the AFL whilst only local matches are on ABC Radio in the ACT, NSW and QLD, whereas non-local matches in are carried on ABC NewsRadio. The ABC Sport coverage uses "Something Big is Coming" by SATV Music as their 2024 theme song.

The ABC personnel involved in the coverage of the 2024 AFL season include:

Commentators

  • Corbin Middlemas
  • Matt Clinch
  • Ben Cameron
  • Kelli Underwood
  • Andrew Mayes
  • Joel Peterson
  • Lauren Bordin
  • Brett Sprigg (NSW)
  • Daniel Garb (NSW)
  • Quentin Hull (NSW, QLD)
  • Michael Price (QLD)
  • Aaron Bryans (SA)
  • Neil Cross (SA)
  • Clint Wheeldon (WA)
  • Mitch Turner (WA)
  • Chris Rowbottam (TAS)
  • Michael Maney (TAS)
  • Rob Cross (NT)

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Boundary

  • Lauren Bordin
  • Tim Hodges
  • Jess Webster
  • Rory Campbell
  • Ian Cohen
  • Tom Maddocks
  • Ben Cameron
  • Andrew Mayes
  • Declan Byrne (NSW)
  • Poppy Penny (NSW)
  • Adam Shirley (NSW)
  • Zane Bojack (QLD)
  • Jamie Stanton (QLD)
  • Liz Walsh (SA)
  • Josh Money (SA)
  • Braden Ingram (SA)
  • Bridget Lacy (WA)
  • Akash Fotedar (WA)
  • Andrew Cooling (TAS)
  • Charlie King (NT)

Journalists

Victorian Football League

Past

  • Darrem Boyd (Commentator)
  • Peter Donegan (Commentator)
  • Peter Marcato (Commentator)
  • David Lithgow (Commentator)
  • David Rhys-Jones (Commentator)
  • Phil Cleary (Expert Commentator/Boundary Commentator, 1991–2014)
  • Gary Ayres
  • Peta Searle
  • Ed Lower
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
  • Andy Collins
  • Rob Waters (Commentators)
  • Ross Booth (Boundary Commentator)
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Awards

Sports coverage and programs made by ABC Sport have been won and been nominated for several awards at the Logie Awards.

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References

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