ABC Sport is the name given to the

Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia’s principal public service broadcaster. It is funded primarily by grants from the federal government and is administered by a government-appointed board of directors. The ABC is ...

's sport programming broadcasts on ABC Television and ABC Radio. From November 2020 the brand includes the former

ABC Radio Grandstand ABC Sport, formerly ABC Radio Grandstand, is a live radio sports focused commentary and talk-back program which runs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) local radio network across Australia and on one digital-only station. History ...

. Since 2021, ABC Sport is a section of the

ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to: * ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation * ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company ABC News may a ...

website (part of

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). , ABC Sport has no television sports rights.

Television

Past

Sports news programs

ABC News camera and operator at Canberra Capitals vs Logan Thunder - Australian Institute of Sport Training Hall

The program '' Offsiders'' is first broadcast on the ABC on Sunday mornings, that reviews and debates the previous week's action.

has Grandstand TV hosted by Peter Wilkins on weeknights at 5:30 pm and '' That Pacific Sports Show'' focusing on the latest news from the region.

Radio

ABC Sport also hold the radio rights to several Australian and international sporting events, including

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

A-League A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

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

Staff and commentators

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

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in the NT, SA, VIC, TAS and WA carry the AFL whilst only local matches are on ABC Radio in the ACT,

NSW New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. T ...

and QLD, whereas non-local matches in are carried on

ABC NewsRadio ABC NewsRadio, since 2017 broadcast under the ABC News brand and for a short time known as ABC News on Radio, is a 24-hour news radio service broadcast by the Australian public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ABC ...

. 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) Experts *

Mick Malthouse Michael Raymond Malthouse (born 17 August 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After finishing his playing career, ...

Cameron Ling Cameron Ling (born 27 February 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer and three-time premiership player who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A tagger at and , Ling was also a premiership-win ...

* Brett Deledio * Brent Harvey *

Adam Ramanauskas Adam Ramanauskas (born 19 November 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club. Of Lithuanian descent, Ramanauskas was selected at no. 12 in the 1998 AFL Draft and was mainly a defender or midfielder. In 2000 ...

* Luke Ball * Nathan Burke * Brad Sewell * Marc Murphy * Chad Wingard * Callum Sinclair * Kerryn Peterson * Tadhg Kennelly (NSW) * Joel Patfull (NSW) * Dean Brogan (NSW, SA) * Alicia Eva (NSW) * Jeff White (QLD) * Matthew Primus (QLD) * Jason Akermanis (QLD) * Jamie Stanton (QLD) * Josh Francou (SA) * Rod Jameson (SA) * Scott Thompson (SA) * Stephen Williams (SA) *

Chelsea Randall Chelsea Randall (born 14 June 1991) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club#AFL Women's team, Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She is one of the club's inaugural AFLW team co-captains, and ...

(SA) * Sharrod Wellingham (WA) * Kara Antonio (WA) * Shane Woewodin (WA) * Chris Waterman (WA) * Joel Bowden (NT) 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 * Jake Niall - Chief football reporter at The Age

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 The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The event is telecast live and ...

References

External links

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Television

Past

Sports news programs

Radio

Staff and commentators

Australian Football League

Victorian Football League

Past

Awards

See also

References

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