SEN Track is an Australian

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operated by

Sports Entertainment Network Sports Entertainment Network (SEN), formerly Crocmedia, is an Australian radio and television distribution company established in 2006 by journalists James Swanwick and Craig Hutchison. SEN's parent company is Sports Entertainment Group (SEG) ...

, a division of

Pacific Star Network Sports Entertainment Group (SEG) (formerly Pacific Star Network) is an Australian sports media content and entertainment business. SEG is the owner and parent company of Sports Entertainment Network (SEN). In December 2014, Pacific Star Network ...

. The network launched on 28 March 2020 and broadcasts live coverage of

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thoroughbred The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are ...

and

greyhound racing Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track. There are two forms of greyhound racing, track racing (normally around an oval track) and coursing; the latter is now banned in most countries. Tra ...

to nine cities and towns in

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, Victoria and

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. It is a sister network to the Melbourne-based

1116 SEN 1116 SEN (call sign 3AK) is an Australian radio station in Victoria. Owned and operated by Pacific Star Network, it broadcasts a sports radio format from Lower Plenty to Greater Melbourne. First broadcast on 29 November 1931 as 3AK, the stati ...

History

SEN Track was born out of SEN+, which commenced broadcasting in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...

on 13 August 2018. The station was a simulcast of the 1116 SEN service, opting out for coverage of sports including the

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, VFL, NBL and

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. The station also broadcast coverage of the 2019 Spring Racing Carnival. On 3 July 2019, Pacific Star Network announced its subsidiary Crocmedia had acquired 23 broadcasting licences from Gumnut Nominees, the licensee of

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radio network Rete Italia, at the value of . On 27 March 2020, Crocmedia announced it would launch SEN Track, a radio station covering horse, thoroughbred and greyhound racing. At the time, racing codes were the only Australian sports operating during the

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. SEN Track launched the following day in Melbourne, replacing SEN+, and on the former Rete Italia frequencies in

Perth Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth most populous city in Aust ...

and

Wollongong Wollongong ( ), colloquially referred to as The Gong, is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near w ...

. In April, the network expanded to

Gosford Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast region, about north of Sydney and about south of Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern ext ...

, Ingham and Atherton, with Crocmedia announcing it would replace Vision Christian Radio in

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and Rete Italia on the Gold Coast from September. In June 2020, Crocmedia announced it would sell the licence of its Melbourne station to

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, and seek to acquire a further three narrowcast licences from Gumnut Nominees, covering Melbourne, Sydney and

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Programming

Networked programming is produced mostly from Crocmedia's studios in

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. In Melbourne and Perth, the station simulcasts the final hour of ''Garry & Tim'' and the first two hours of ''Whateley'' from 1116 SEN. In New South Wales and Queensland, two local programs — ''Breakfast with Joel and Jimmy'' and ''Sportsday Central'' — are produced from studios in North Sydney.

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coverage of Friday night

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matches also air in these markets under the ''NRL Nation'' brand, while coverage of

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The ...

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matches are broadcast in Gosford.

Notable presenters

Gary Belcher Gary Belcher (born 28 May 1962) is an Australian rugby league football commentator and former player. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership ...

(''Sportsday Central'') * Joel Caine (''Breakfast'' in New South Wales) *

Garry Lyon Garry Peter Lyon (born 13 September 1967) is a former professional Australian rules football player and was captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Since his retirement from football, he has been mai ...

(''Garry & Tim'') *

Scott Sattler Scott Sattler (born 13 December 1971) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played during the 1990s and 2000s, later becoming the Football Manager of the Gold Coast Titans. A Queensland State of Origin representat ...

(''Sportsday Central'') * Jimmy Smith (''Breakfast'' in New South Wales) * Tim Watson (''Garry & Tim'') *

Gerard Whateley Gerard Whateley is a Melbourne-based sports broadcaster and writer. Since January 2018 he has been chief sports caller and host of the ''Whateley'' program on the sports radio station SEN1116. He is also co-host of Fox Footy's ''AFL 360'' progra ...

(''Whateley'')

Transmitters

References

External links

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