Fox Footy’s announcement this evening that Gerard Whateley and Anthony Hudson would commentate Friday night games from 2025, will also affect their radio employers’ coverage for that night. SEN and 3AW will need to find someone to replace them for that timeslot.
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Could also get them to possibly do another slot (i.e. swap whoever does Sunday Arvo with Huddo on Friday).
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Jon Ralph’s Sunday Herald Sun column on Sunday suggested that Huddo will call Thursdays on 3AW, with Matt Granland likely to sit alongside Bruce Eva on Fridays.
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SEN 1116 will broadcast the 2024 Telstra AFL Draft live from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne tonight from 7pm. It can also be heard on SEN stations in regional Victoria, SA, Darwin, as well as online, DAB+ and the SEN app.
SEN stations in WA will join in from 6pm local time (9pm AEDT) for the final hour of the broadcast.
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More like slot in, it’s not temporary.
Also sadly means no more of either of them on live Grand Final coverage.
Rebroadcast of Fox feed?
Are you suggesting that Gerard Whateley and Anthony Hudson will be calling next year’s grand final for Fox Footy, rather than on their respective radio stations?
I think SEN or AFL Nation will have its own experts at Marvel Stadium to discuss the draft picks. They may use the Fox Footy feed for interviews with the draftees.
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Why wouldn’t they?
Fox don’t broadcast the Grand Final live, only Seven. Though I think they are allowed to do a live call after the game has finished? Which will probably be done by Whateley and Hudson.
Doing a live call after the game had finished doesn’t give an authentic feel, as both Whateley and Hudson will have known the result beforehand.
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This Saturday’s AFLW preliminary finals will be broadcast only on ABC listen app nationwide, due to Local Radio and digital radio’s coverage of the first cricket test between Australia and Pakistan.
FiveAA will broadcast both matches into Adelaide.
3AW and SEN will only broadcast the North Melbourne-Port Adelaide preliminary final in late afternoon. NIRS will cover the match in Brisbane and Perth.
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They’ll do it like Fox League do, live but to tape.
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And by the looks of SEN’s broadcast guide, cricket has priority. AFLW only on SEN Fanatic on DAB and streaming. No analogue radio coverage.
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They had a presenter and a player manager on both nights (Docklands night 1, studio night 2). Coverage ordinary mainly due to the length of ad breaks missing a number of picks (especially night 2, where they even wound up the coverage before the last 2 picks were made) and prioritising interviews on night 1 as opposed to broadcasting picks (own interview at venue, not always Fox feed, they joined the Fox interviews more on night 2).
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ABC’s commentary team for North Melbourne v Port Adelaide preliminary final (left to right): Aaron Bryans, Lauren Bordin, Chyloe Kurdas, Gemma Bastiani and Marnie Vinall (with her headphones and holding a mike).
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This Saturday night’s AFLW grand final between North Melbourne and Brisbane will be broadcast on ABC Radio, Triple M, 3AW, and SEN/AFL Nation, plus NIRS in Brisbane and Perth. NEMBC will provide a Spanish commentary stream.
UPDATE: SEN’s coverage will be broadcast on most of its stations in Victoria, SA, Tasmania and WA. Surprisingly SEN stations in Queensland will not broadcast the match.
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The commentary team for tonight’s AFLW grand final:
ABC: Lauren Bordin, Matt Clinch, Chyloe Kurdas, Meg Hutchins, Kerryn Peterson, Marnie Vinall.
3AW: Shane McInnes, Bruce Eva, Madison Prespakis, Matt Skubis, Emilia Fuller.
4BC in Brisbane and 6PR in Perth are taking 3AW’s broadcast.
Triple M: Jack Heverin, Barry Denner, Sarah Hosking.
AFL Nation: Matthew Cocks, Melissa Kuys.
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The full-team was announced on Triple M during the week, in addition to those above, it includes Ethan Meldrum on statistics, and Joseph Pignataro (who has called VFL for Seven) on the boundary.
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The SEN article also mentions that Stephen Quartermain will join AFL Nation next year, calling mainly Saturday afternoon matches. That’s after he commentated several Hawthorn games this year in a Hawks Radio cameo for AFL Nation.
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