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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] 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.
On June 9, 1960, the league signed a five-year television contract with ABC, which brought in revenues of approximately $2.125 million per year for the entire league.On January 29, 1964, the AFL signed a lucrative $36 million television contract with NBC (beginning in the 1965 season), which gave the league money it needed to compete with the NFL for players.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
Hosted by Tony Armstrong, Bianca Hunt (2020) and Megan Waters (2021-present), with rotating panellists, former AFL players Darryl White, Andrew Krakouer and Gilbert McAdam. Much like its predecessor, The Marngrook Footy Show, it focuses on indigenous players and issues.
Many of the local players had found out about the game in the 1980s on television and ESPN. Although the local game grew, ESPN no longer broadcast AFL matches, and in response the lobby group AFANA was formed. In 1997, the first club national championships were held in Cincinnati.
All matches are broadcast live to air in Standard, High Definition and in 4K Ultra HD with no commercial breaks during play. When two live matches are being played simultaneously, Fox Sports 503 broadcasts one of the matches. From the start of the 2012 AFL season, Fox Footy had become the most watched Pay-TV network in Australia. [4]
Sports Entertainment Network was established in 2006 as Crocmedia by journalists James Swanwick and Craig Hutchison. [3] [4] The company was originally formed in the United States as a public relations company selling entertainment and news content before shifting to focusing on sports.
Before 2001, no footage of any AFL games could be aired by the show, as rival station Seven Network held the broadcast rights and refused to allow the show to air footage in an attempt to stall the program's success. From 2002 until 2006, Nine had the rights to AFL broadcasts, and footage was used liberally during the show.