The Hills match might be called remotely due to lack of facilities?
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Triple M Melbourne will broadcast all but one of Gather Round matches live. Saturday’s Kangaroos-Lions clash will not be broadcast into Brisbane as the station is taking the NRL match between NZ Warriors and North Queensland at the same time.
UPDATE 14/4: 3AW sent most of its commentary team to Adelaide, except Jacqueline Felgate and Jimmy Bartel who stayed in Melbourne as they hosted Breakfast this morning.
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Brisbane v Fremantle tomorrow will be broadcast on DAB+ into Brisbane while Triple M Brisbane covers the NRL on the FM frequency. Richmond v Gold Coast will be broadcast into Gold Coast in full on Sunday.
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According to Herald Sun’s Scott Gullan, Nine is fuming that SEN’s Craig Hutchison signed an exclusive deal with the AFL in the new radio rights deal which was signed off late last year, paying a high premium to be the only AM commercial option on the AFL app for the next two years.
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Is Hutchy still on Nine? If Nine are fuming at SEN, why haven’t they been petty enough to sack him.
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I think his media company produces the show (Footy Classified) so it’s not that easy.
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Nine could take it in house. Or find another company.
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Stephen Beers may have clarified about streaming, but did not explain why 3AW would not broadcast every Thursday night match this year. So far it only covered the season opener between Richmond and Carlton, and Brisbane v Collingwood on Easter Thursday.
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Publicly declaring that the league you have broadcast rights to as a “competitor” when said league had no issues carrying advertising that aired on 3AW when they previously offered their commentaries is a bold strategy…
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It has been mentioned in the past that the reason is that airing normal programming on a Thursday night is more profitable than footy. They can play more commercials in normal programming than they can during the football call.
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Seems like Ben Cameron is back in WA?
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Saturday night’s broadcast of the Dreamtime at the 'G game is the first of three games to be called in language, with continued support from Telstra and in conjunction with First Nations Media Australia and RMIT senior research fellow for media and communications Dr Daniel Featherstone.
Round 11 will see the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association (TEABBA) broadcast the Darwin match between Gold Coast and the Western Bulldogs in traditional Tiwi language, while the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAMMA) will broadcast the match between the Adelaide Crows and Brisbane Lions in Arrernte language.
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No, Ben called Western Bulldogs v Adelaide in Ballarat on Saturday afternoon.
According to Sunday Herald Sun’s Jon Anderson, there will be a minor reshuffle of 3AW’s commentary team during June, as Tony Leonard fulfills a long-held desire by flying to England to watch some Ashes tests. Anthony Hudson and Tim Lane will commentate on Friday nights, while Bruce Eva moves from Friday to Saturday afternoons.
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Joel Peterson and Kerryn Peterson calling Richmond v Port Adelaide at the MCG this afternoon, alongside Ben Cameron and Nathan Burke, for ABC Radio.
I think this is the first time husband and wife work together in the same match.
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Will they start arguments over nom football things during the coverage? 
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Joel Peterson and Aaron Bryans called Port v Hawks.
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Corbin Middlemas returned to his hometown of Perth to call West Coast v Collingwood alongside Clint Wheeldon.
Today Corbin is hosting the lunchtime AFL show from ABC Perth studios, with Nathan Burke and Hawthorn star Chad Wingard in Melbourne.
Daniel Garb and Brett Sprigg commentate GWS v Richmond, with former Swans Jason Saddington and Callum Sinclair as experts, and ABC Sport Daily podcast producer Poppy Penny on the boundary.
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