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ABC Sport

ABC Sport

Sports programming from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 sports rights.

Television

Past

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Sports news programs

ABC camera man filming a WNBL game

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 Sport Show.

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, Olympics, Australian international cricket games and selected Ford Ranger One-Day Cup games, amongst other major sporting events.

Staff and commentators

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)

Awards

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

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Grandstand Summer of Cricket now on ABC SPORT". radioinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. [2]
    "[Home page]". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  3. [3]
    "ABC strikes deal with FFA to become free-to-air home of football in Australia". ABC News. 3 October 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Evidence that Channel 7 intended to damage soccer (?)". Austadiums. 27 October 2005. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Annual Report 2006–07" (PDF). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 November 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2007.
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