Footy Classified

[TV.Cynic]

8:45 PM tonight in Melbourne.

Nine Network - Programs and Schedules

In Melbourne Footy Classified is moving to the 8:45 PM timeslot to cover recent events Paramedics to follow at 9:45 PM

[turdall]

Gosh I hate the Wednesday addition. Hird is so out of touch trying to suggest taunts on family is worse than calling someone a faggot. McGuire is sounding more like sam Newman every day and can hardly stay on topic. Sloane is just a yes person and has no opinion. And Tom Morris is just insufferable

[Apple75]

You mean Tuesday show? I don’t think they do Wednesday

[turdall]

Yeah that’s the one

[FootyKick]

Tonight is the last Monday Footy Classified (McClure, Bartel, Barrett and Lloyd) given the Brownlow is on next week.

The final Closing Cook was another crack at “Scoop no friends”

[JohnsonTV]

Former Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley will be on the panel on Tuesday.

[TV.Cynic]

Tonight

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Tonight Footy Classified is LIVE from 8.40pm AEST with James Hird on news Essendon’s President has stood down, plus former Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley for his take on the Grand Final.

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This year all AFL programs on Nine have seen positive growth compared to last year, with Footy Classified – Monday recording the highest Total TV Audience with 203,000 viewers (up 28.8% year on year) with the new team of Sam McClure, Matthew Lloyd, Damian Barrett and Jimmy Bartel.

Footy Classified – Tuesday’s panel of Eddie McGuire, James Hird, Tom Morris and Rory Sloane has also enjoyed substantial Total TV audience growth, up by 39.6% compared to the Wednesday program last year.

These figures have cemented Footy Classified as Monday and Tuesday’s top rated AFL program of the night across all networks.

[JohnsonTV]

Footy Classified did pretty well to fend off a challenge from The Agenda Setters.

[Apple75]

It did well on Monday. Tuesday seems to be conflicting numbers.

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I thought 7 claimed their Tuesday show was the ratings winner? From June 18th: Who is winning Australia's own "Monday Night War" - SportsIndustryAU Tuesday nights, the upstart Agenda Setters are beating Footy Classified with an average audience of 167,000k to 154,000.

[turdall]

For a show in its first year I think agenda setters did well. The egos at footy classified turned me off this year.

[Moe]

@Apple75

It did well on Monday. Tuesday seems to be conflicting numbers.

That tracks with my viewing - can cope with the Monday show, but don’t bother on Tuesday. They should move it back to Wednesday so there’s enough time for something to happen, and ditch Tom Morris.

[Aurora]

I bet the parameters are different. One is probably national vs metro.

[turdall]

Really good episode last night. Eddie shut his mouth and lets James Hird ask questions. It had a lot of guests as well which I think helped the show flow better. Ken Hinkley should be given a full time role in media next year if he isn’t at a club.

[TV.Cynic]

2026

The hard-hitting Footy Classified returns to set the agenda for the 2026 AFL season. Tune in to the code’s best breaking-news and analysis program every Monday and Tuesday night.

[Apple75]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/channel-9s-chief-footy-reporter-tom-morris-to-switch-channels-to-seven/news-story/11ebd462bc29feee29c9c9986b895291

Big loss for 9’s footy shows and 9news. He was their main reporter for all things AFL.

[turdall]

I watched more 7 because the homophobe wasn’t on 7.

[Moe]

Superb news.

[JohnsonTV]

Herald Sun’s Confidential column reports that Nine’s executive producer of AFL, Matt Conway, is a casualty of the company’s current round of job cuts. Matt is the husband of Nine reporter Justine Conway.

[utaussiefan]

Seems to follow the train of thought in the TVBlackbox article that Sydney just doesn’t get Melbourne and the AFL.

[foxyrover]

Probably ends up at Seven or Fox then?