Nine Radio have 3AW’s Round 1 schedule up on the Syndication site. It’s pretty much as per the press release, but only mentions play-by-play callers, not special comments or boundary riders. If we fill in those based on the press release, the schedule looks like this:
Thursday 19:07 – 22:30
19:20 Richmond v Carlton
Venue MCG, Vic
Callers Anthony Hudson, Bruce Eva
Comments TBC
Boundary TBC
Friday 18:07 – 23:00
19:40 Geelong Cats v Collingwood
Venue MCG, Vic
Callers Anthony Hudson, Bruce Eva
Comments Leigh Matthews, Matthew Lloyd
Boundary Libby Birch
Saturday 12:07 – 23:00
13:45 North Melbourne v West Coast Eagles
Venue Marvel Stadium, Vic
Callers Tim Lane, Tony Leonard
Comments Leigh Matthews, Jimmy Bartel
Boundary Jacqui Reed
19:25 Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Venue MCG, Vic
Callers Matt Granland, Shane McInnes
Comments Tony Shaw
Boundary Abbie McKay
Sunday 12:07 – 19:00
15:20 Hawthorn v Essendon
Venue MCG, Vic
Callers Tim Lane, Matt Granland
Comments Matthew Richardson, Tony Shaw
Boundary Jacqui Reed
Eddie McGuire said at the 3AW season launch on Thursday that he had made himself available to commentate on a handful of games this season for the station, and had not ruled out calling some matches with Tim Lane. The two men fell out in 2002 over McGuire calling Collingwood games on Friday nights, when they were working for Nine.
Former Geelong and GWS player Steve Johnson will join Triple M’s commentary team for the 2023 season, which starts next Thursday.
UPDATE 14/3: SCA announced sponsors for Triple M’s coverage this morning: McDonald’s, Rheem hot water system, CBUS Super, Harvey Norman, Beacon Lighting, Choice Hotels, Jim Beam, Bob Jane T-Mart and Neds.
Truth be told this comes up every 2nd year or so, but it would be awkward this time for an organisation who is supposedly supportive of “The Voice” (a discussion for another place) to turn its back on the radio service that’s catering for the very people the voice is supposed to support.
SEN/AFL Nation has stopped providing a complete list of AFL matches they will broadcast on analogue radio for respective markets each week, as well as commentary teams for each match.
Of course, every home and away game this year onwards will be available via the SEN app (and SEN Stadium app for selected matches).
The AFL website is now the only place to find out the stations covering each match (usually updated every Wednesday).
Saturday 18 March
Port Adelaide v Brisbane, Adelaide Oval
4:00p – 6.50p
Bounce: 4:05pm
Call team: Chris Dittmar, Mark Soderstrom, Shaun Burgoyne, Dom Cassisi, Rhett Biglands
Well that’s a new name for Triple M. I guess it makes sense since he’s doing breakfast at SAFM, not sure how it’d work with his channel 7 SANFL and AFL commitments though.
Might have even an accident actually… because it doesn’t include The Suns. New producers?
Unless they don’t care because we only care about the Vic teams ? Haha
I have always preferred the old one, it has a better tone and tempo. The new one was too acoustic.
Would be great if they could somehow update the old one and maintain it
SEN / AFL Nation commentators tonight appear to be Gerard Whateley, Matt Hill and Dermott Brereton.
SEN’s live sport guide indicates that the Ace stations are the only non-SEN stations taking AFL Nation tonight. Although as 2SM is still promoting AFL coverage, I expect that when the list is updated for the weekend, SRN/BOG will take a couple games.
No effect this week given the SANFL doesn’t start for another week, and apart from R5 (Gather Round) the first Ch7 commitment for an Adelaide based game is a Port FNF game in R10, when MMM usually have the Melbourne based team do the game.
The AFL Nation website is still active, but is only reposting AFL news articles from the SEN website.
The AFL Nation podcast has also been updated with highlights from the commentary of last night’s season opener between Richmond and Carlton, as well as pre-match and post-match in full.
Yep, still called AFL Nation. The various SEN streams taking the call even list it as that.
As for affiliates. In addition to Ace taking most timeslots and SRN/BOG taking at least two Saturday games, it seems that Resonate are taking the same games as SRN/BOG, while CAAMA, Cruise 1323 Adelaide, Voice FM 99.9 Ballarat and KLFM 96.5 Bendigo are taking some games.