SEN’s AFL Trade Radio returns for 2023 on Monday, October 2, two days after the grand final. It finishes on October 18.
Corbin Middlemas and Clint Wheeldon are calling both preliminary finals for ABC Radio. Quentin Hill will commentate the NRL preliminary final between the Broncos and the Warriors on Saturday night.
Triple M Brisbane is airing the Lions game right now. No doubt they’ll switch straight to NRL at the conclusion. Not sure about the regionals, but I imagine they will also follow.
7.55pm: As soon as the Lions team song played, NRL stations taking the AFL faded out the team song and went straight to the NRL game commentary. Only missed the first 2 minutes.
Corbin Middlemas hosting today’s ABC Radio Sunday AFL review show live from Lavington Sports Ground in Albury this afternoon, ahead of Ovens and Murray Football League grand final between Yarrawonga and Albury. That match will be broadcast on ABC Listen app nationally, as well as ABC Local Radio into Victoria and Tasmania from 2.30pm AEST.
It will also broadcast SANFL GF across South Australia and WAFL GF throughout Western Australia this afternoon.
Shane McInnes and Tony Leonard calling Essendon v Fremantle this afternoon, they aren’t B-grade commentators.
The core members of 3AW’s AFLW commentary team is: host Melissa Fistric (musician and producer/host on ABC Radio Gippsland on weekdays), former Carlton AFLW coach Damien Keeping, and 3AW breakfast producer Amelia Fuller as boundary reporter. Expert commentators include Carlton player Abbie McKay, and Melbourne premiership player Libby Birch, who is also part of the station’s AFL commentary team.
Very interesting choice that the ABC has gone for the O&M grand final rather than the VFL grand final across the whole state.
Travel can’t be a factor as the VFL is at Princes Park in Melbourne while the O&M is a nearly 4 hour trip north to Albury.
Very strange. Unless this was a deliberate jab at being snubbed for the rights to broadcast the VFL?
As mentioned in the ABC Local Radio thread, ABC Radio Brisbane and regional Queensland will broadcast the live coverage of the AFL Grand Final parade on Friday morning. Owing to the Brisbane Lions featuring in this years final.
Who is broadcasting the Brownlow Medal on radio?
SEN has this betting oriented coverage on 1116, it’s nonsense as they don’t even relay the audio of votes being read out.
SEN Fanatic on DAB+ and the app looks to be a different, better coverage, have just switched on so waiting to see if they relay the audio of the count properly. It’s also being relayed on SENQ Brisbane so if you have a smart speaker you can ask for SEN 693 to get that coverage.
Edit: yep, the SEN Fanatic/SENQ coverage is relaying the audio of the count.
The callers for this Saturday’s AFL Grand Final have been confirmed.
3AW: Tim Lane, Anthony Hudson, Jimmy Bartel, Matthew Lloyd, Jacqui Reed (boundary)
SEN 1116: Gerard Whateley, Dwayne Russell, Kane Cornes, Gerard Healy, Sam Edmund (boundary)
AFL Nation: Andy Maher, Matt Hill, Dermott Brereton, Brad Johnson, Matthew Cocks (boundary)
Triple M: Luke Darcy, Mark Howard, Jason Dunstall, Nathan Brown, Ash Chua, Michael Roberts (boundary)
ABC: Corbin Middlemas, Clint Wheeldon, Cameron Ling, Brett Deledio, Mick Malthouse, Kelli Underwood (boundary)
K-Rock: Tom King, Ben Casanelia, Mark Neeld, Shaun Higgins, Jason Doherty
Interesting Leigh Matthews won’t be doing special comments on 3AW. Can only assume he’s slowly transitioning into retirement. Last year AW had Jimmy, Llordo and Leigh all doing special comments.
Leigh will still be part of 3AW’s pre-match coverage (from 10am AEST) but after that he will be watching the match in the stands.
He is spending all this week in Melbourne. He went to the Brownlow Medal on Monday night and was in the 3AW studio for his weekly appearance on Wide World of Sports yesterday.
He’s involved in Seven’s coverage too:
Maybe Leigh will present the Premiership Cup to Chris Fagan?
Nah he won’t get the opportunity…
The AFL confirmed today that if Brisbane win, Leigh would present the premiership cup to Chris Fagan. If Collingwood win, it will be Peter Moore.
Leigh could’ve done it for both Clubs really
Father to son is better though
Corbin Middlemas and Luke Ball hosting the GF parade broadcast from Grand Slam Oval at Melbourne Park this morning, with Ben Cameron, Clint Wheeldon and Lauren Bordin as roving reporters.
The parade is broadcast on ABC Radio in Victoria and Queensland, as well as ABC Sport Digital and ABC Listen app nationally.
