ABC Sport

ABC Sport
Division of:	ABC Television
Major broadcasting contracts:	WNBL
Parent:	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Website:	ABC Sport

ABC Sport is the name given to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's sport's programming broadcasts on ABC Television and ABC Radio. From November 2020 the brand includes the former ABC Radio Grandstand.^[1]

As of 2021, ABC Sport is a section of the ABC News website (part of ABC Online).^[2]

Television[]

ABC Television broadcasts significantly less sport than the other free-to-air Australian TV networks.

Current[]

Sport	Event	Broadcast partner(s)	Date	Notes
Basketball	Women's National Basketball League	Fox Sports	1981–2015, 2020–	Saturday Matches at 3:00pm and the Grand Final live

Past[]

Sport	Event	Broadcast partner(s)	Date	Reason/subsequent broadcasters
Summer Olympics	Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964, Munich 1972, Montreal 1976	Seven Network (1956, 1972, 1976), Nine Network (1956, 1972, 1976)	1956, 1960, 1964, 1972, 1976	Dropped: Seven Network
American football	National Football League		1980s–1990s	Dropped: Seven Network, ESPN
American football	Super Bowl		1980s–1990s	Dropped: Seven Network, ESPN
Association football	A-League^[3]	Fox Sports	2013–2017, 2019–2021	Dropped: Network 10, Paramount+ Sports
	Matildas Internationals^[3]	Fox Sports	2008–2016, 2019–2021	Dropped: Network 10, Paramount+ Sports
	Socceroos Internationals^[3]	Fox Sports	2014–2015, 2019–2021	Dropped: Network 10, Paramount+ Sports
	W-League^[3]	Fox Sports	2008–2016, 2019–2021	Dropped: Network 10, Paramount+ Sports
	AFC Asian Cup^[4]	Fox Sports	2015	Dropped: Network 10, Paramount+ Sports
Australian rules	VFL (currently AFL)	HSV (1957–1986), GTV (1957–1960s)	1957–1987	Dropped: Seven Network, Fox Footy
	NTFL		2006–2014	Dropped: Seven Network
	SANFL	Fox Sports (2000s–2008)	1988–2013	Dropped: Seven Network
	VFL (formally VFA)		1987–2014	Dropped: Seven Network
	WAFL	(1960s–1987)	1987–2014	Dropped: Seven Network
	TSL		2009–2011	Dropped: Seven Network
	Tiwi Islands Football League Grand Final			Dropped: TBA
Baseball	Australian Baseball League	Network Ten (1990s–1996)	1989–1999
Baseball	Claxton Shield		1970s–1988
Basketball	FIBA Men's World Cup		2014	Dropped: TBA
	FIBA Oceania Championship for Men		2013	Dropped: TBA
	FIBA Women's World Cup		2014	Dropped: TBA
	FIBA Oceania Championship for Women		2013	Dropped: TBA
	National Basketball Association		1983–1991	Dropped: ESPN, Kayo Sports
	National Basketball League	Fox Sports	1979-2001, 2017-2018	Dropped: ESPN, Kayo Sports
Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh 1970, Christchurch 1974, Edmonton 1978, Brisbane 1982, Edinburgh 1986	Nine Network (1982), (Highlights) Network Ten (1986)	1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986	Dropped: TBA (2022)
Cricket	Sheffield Shield		1970s–1990s	Dropped: Cricket Network, Fox Sports (final only)
Cricket	Test cricket	Nine Network	1960s–1979	Dropped: Seven Network and Fox Sports
Field hockey	Hockey World Cup		2014	Dropped: Fox Sports
Golf	Australian Ladies Masters		–2017
	British Open		1970s–1980s	Dropped: Fox Sports
	PGA Tour		–2019
	Women's Australian Open Golf		–2021	Dropped: Fox Sports
Lawn Bowls	Domestic and International Australian Lawn Bowls		1981–2011
Netball	Commonwealth Bank Trophy	C7 Sport (1997–2002)	1997–2007
	INF Netball World Cup		1991, 1995, 2003, 2007	Dropped: Nine Network 2019
	Netball Test Series		1990s–2007	Dropped: Nine Network
Paralympic Games	Paralympic Games		1970s–2013	Dropped: Seven Network
Rugby league	NSWRL	Seven Network ATN7 1973-1982 0-10 Network 1973-1979 Network Ten 1980–1991 Nine Network 1983, 1992–1995	–	Dropped: Nine Network & Fox Sports
Rugby league	Queensland Cup	Fox Sports	1996–2012	Dropped: Nine Network & Fox Sports
Rugby union	Australia national rugby union team		1957-1991	Dropped Nine Network, Stan
	Rugby World Cup		1987 1991	Dropped: TBA
	British and Irish Lions		1959 1966 1989	Dropped: Stan Sport, Nine Network (2025)
	Shute Shield		2000s–2014	Dropped: Stan Sport
Tennis	Hopman Cup		1995–2010

Sports news programs[]

ABC camera man filming a WNBL game

The program Offsiders is first broadcast on ABC on Sunday mornings and reviews and debates the previous week's action. ABC News 24 has Grandstand TV hosted by Peter Wilkins on weeknights at 5:30 pm.

Staff[]

VFL Football Darren Boyd (Commentator) Peter Marcato (Commentator) Peter Donegan (Commentator) David Lithgow (Commentator) David Rhys-Jones (Expert Commentator) Gary Ayres (Expert Commentator) Peta Searle (Expert Commentator) Ed Lower (Expert Commentator) Gerald Fitzgerald (Expert Commentator) Andy Collins (Expert Commentator) Phil Cleary (Boundary Commentator)

Radio[]

ABC Sport also hold the radio rights to several Australian and international sporting events, including Australian Football League, National Rugby League, A-League, Olympics, Australian international cricket games and selected Ford Ranger One-Day Cup games, amongst other major sporting events.

References[]

^ "Grandstand Summer of Cricket now on ABC SPORT". radioinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^ "[Home page]". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "ABC strikes deal with FFA to become free-to-air home of football in Australia". ABC News. 3 October 2019.
^ "Annual Report 2006–07" (PDF). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 November 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2007.

External links[]

[radioinfo-1] "Grandstand Summer of Cricket now on ABC SPORT". radioinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

[home-2] "[Home page]". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 June 2021.

[ALeague-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "ABC strikes deal with FFA to become free-to-air home of football in Australia". ABC News. 3 October 2019.

[annualreport07-4] "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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show v t ABC Television
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABC TV	Australian Capital Territory Northern Territory New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia
Multichannels	ABC TV ABC HD ABC TV Plus ABC Kids ABC Me ABC News
Defunct	ABC Kids (2001–03) Fly TV
International	ABC Australia
Online	ABC iview
See also	Australian Broadcasting Corporation History of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Programs

show v t ABC local programming (current and upcoming)
Primetime	Anh's Brush with Fame (since 2016) At Home Alone Together (since 2020) Catalyst (since 2001) Compass (since 1988) Fisk (since 2020) Gardening Australia (since 1990) Good Game: Spawn Point (since 2010) Gruen (since 2008) Hard Quiz (since 2016) Harrow (since 2018) Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery (since 2013) Mystery Road (since 2018) The Newsreader (since 2021) Rage (since 1987) Retrograde (since 2020) Rosehaven (since 2016) The Set (since 2018) The Sound (since 2020) Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell (since 2012) Spicks and Specks (2005-2011, 2014, since 2018) Utopia (since 2014) Wakefield (since 2021) The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (since 2015) Why Are You Like This (since 2021) Win the Week (since 2021) You Can't Ask That (since 2018)
News	7.30 (since 2011) ABC News (since 1956) ABC News at Noon (since 2005) News Breakfast (since 2008) Australian Story (since 1996) The Drum (since 2014) Foreign Correspondent (since 1992) Four Corners (since 1961) Insiders (since 2001) Landline (since 1992) Media Watch (since 1989; intermittently) Offsiders (since 2006) One Plus One (since 2010) Planet America (since 2012) Q+A (since 2008) Weekend Breakfast (since 2012)
Sport	ABC Sport
Upcoming	Barons Fires Troppo

show v t Sports television in Australia
Broadcast divisions	ABC Sport Seven Sport Nine's Wide World of Sports 10 Sport SBS Sport
Sports Channels	beIN Sports ESPN ESPN2 Fox Cricket Fox Footy Fox League Fox Sports Fox Sports News Main Event Optus Sport Racing.com Sky Racing
Live streaming Channels	Chelsea TV Fuel TV Kayo Sports LFC TV MUTV NBL TV Stan Sport
Defunct channels	C7 Sport Eurosport 1 Eurosport News Fox Footy Channel Speed Sports Australia TVN