ABC Sport
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Network | ABC Television |
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Launched | 1956 |
Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales |
Sister network | ABC TV ABC iview |
Official website | ABC Sport |
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[update], ABC Sport has no sports rights.
Television[edit]
Past[edit]
Sports news programs[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Victorian Football League[edit]
Past[edit]
- 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[edit]
Sports coverage and programs made by ABC Sport have been won and been nominated for several awards at the Logie Awards.
See also[edit]
- Seven Sport
- Nine's Wide World of Sports
- 10 Sport
- SBS Sport
- Fox Sports (Australia)
- Stan Sport
- List of Australian television series
- List of longest running Australian television series
References[edit]
- ^ "Grandstand Summer of Cricket now on ABC SPORT". radioinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "[Home page]". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d "ABC strikes deal with FFA to become free-to-air home of football in Australia". ABC News. 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Evidence that Channel 7 intended to damage soccer (?)". Austadiums. 27 October 2005. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "Annual Report 2006–07" (PDF). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 November 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2007.