SPORT
SWIMMING
Australia’s world-beating swimming team has eyes on the glittering prize in 2024 with the World Aquatics Championships Doha and the Australian Olympic team trials for the Paris Olympic Games, for which the swimming finals will be available exclusively on Channel 9HD and 9Now in prime time.
Our golden girls Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan and Emma McKeon will lead the charge for the Dolphins team, alongside a feared men’s roster that features world champions Kyle Chalmers, Sam Short, Zac Stubblety-Cook and emerging star Elijiah Winnington.
There as every heart-racing moment unfolds on Wide World of Sports will be Australia’s greatest male swimmer, Ian Thorpe, former world champion Giaan Rooney, Australia’s greatest Paralympian, Ellie Cole, and the booming voice of Mat Thompson to call each race.
It all begins in Doha for the World Aquatics Championships on February 2, followed by the Australian Olympic trials before we dive into the pool at Paris 2024.
AUSTRALIAN OPEN, GRAND SLAM TENNIS
Nine will serve up an epic year of Grand Slam Tennis with the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open available exclusively across the 9Network, 9Now and Stan Sport.
It all begins in January with lead-up tournaments that include the star studded United Cup, before viewers receive wall-to-wall coverage of the 2024 Australian Open. Melbourne Park will light up with the new frontier of men’s and women’s tennis talent aiming to take down reigning champions Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka.
A stellar commentary lineup featuring Jim Courier, Jelena Dokic, Lleyton Hewitt, Dylan Alcott, Todd Woodbridge and Sam Smith, will put you on centre court for another unmissable Australian Open.
Throughout the year tennis fans can keep their eye on the ball with every match from all four Grand Slams, the Laver Cup streaming ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport.
The only place to catch the summer of tennis is here on Nine. Game. Set. Match.
RUGBY LEAGUE
The most entertaining football code anywhere in the world revs up for another thrilling rugby league season in 2024, when the biggest games and the biggest names are all live and free on Channel 9HD and 9Now for the network’s 33rd consecutive year of broadcasting.
We say “Viva Las Vegas” to kick off the season when the NRL competition goes to the USA for the first time in history for a not-to-be-missed opening weekend.
Each week viewers will get Thursday Night, Friday Night and Sunday Arvo NRL, mixed with the best magazine shows on offer both on the 9Network and 9Now. We look forward to working with the Australian Rugby League Commission to also bring viewers NRLW (including the Women’s State of Origin series), Indigenous and Maori All Stars, NSW and Queensland Cup games in 2024.
Hosted by James Bracey and Danika Mason, the best lineup of rugby league commentators in the game will assemble on Nine’s Wide World of Sports for the 2024 NRL Telstra Premiership.
Rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns, premiership-winning captains Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Brad Fittler, Paul Vautin, Paul Gallen, Darren Lockyer, and multiple premiership winners Phil Gould AM, Billy Slater and Sonny Bill Williams will provide the best insight and analysis there is.
Mat Thompson, Brenton Speed and Peter Psaltis will call the action for NRL, in combination with hosts and sideline reporters Emma Lawrence, Marlee Silva and dual internationals Ruan Sims and Allana Ferguson.
Straight off the field and onto NRL on Nine throughout the season will be the playing ambassadors Nathan Cleary, Millie Boyle, Adam Reynolds, Ryan Papenhuyzen, Reece Walsh, and Cameron Murray.
STATE OF ORIGIN 2024
Nine’s Logie Award-winning State of Origin coverage goes to new heights in 2024 when the biggest sporting rivalry in Aussie sport is exclusive, live and free on Channel 9HD and 9Now.
Offering unmatched drama and passion that captivates record-breaking audiences every year, fans can watch all three games in the State of Origin series, with additional camera angles on 9Now.
The Queensland Maroons are gunning for a three-peat of series wins while the NSW Blues are desperate to restore state pride and bounce back by avoiding another heartbreaking defeat in the three-game series.
With a lineup of the greatest players in Origin history to call the action, and unprecedented access to the players, coaches, team buses, sheds and team camps, there’s simply no place like Nine’s Wide World of Sports come Origin time.
RUGBY
Super Rugby in 2024 shines a light on the best rugby players in the southern hemisphere when Wide World of Sports broadcast a weekly game for free across the 9Network.
With the Brumbies, Waratahs, Reds, Force and Rebels taking on the might of New Zealand rugby powerhouses in the Crusaders and Chiefs, our emerging Wallabies will get their chance to show their talent leading into the Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup in August and September.
The Home of Rugby, Stan Sport, will broadcast every Super Rugby game ad-free, live and on demand.
A commentary team of rugby union superstars and experts led by Roz Kelly, Nick McArdle and Michael Atkinson will include Sonny Bill Williams, Tim Horan, Justin Harrison, Allana Ferguson and Morgan Turinui, plus caller Sean Maloney. That makes Stan Sport and the 9Network the only place to be to watch the game they play in heaven once again in 2024.
THE MASTERS
Tournament golf doesn’t get any bigger than The Masters, and in 2024 Wide World of Sports will present another thrilling instalment of one of the world’s greatest sporting events live and free from Augusta National.
Aussies Jason Day and Cameron Smith have gone close to winning the coveted green jacket in recent years and will be hellbent on wearing it this time, but you never know what mighty Augusta will offer up for the best golfers in the world.
The history, the challenge, the course, the drama, the legendary names etched in history – peerless Augusta has it all…
SPORTS SUNDAY
In an Olympic year, Sports Sunday steps it up a notch to cover every corner of the globe every week for the biggest moments and developing stories in sport.
Available nationally on Channel 9, Sports Sunday is your hour of power to catch up on everything going on in the sporting world through an easily digestible lens.
Host Roz Kelly is joined by former Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor, Gus Worland, Chloe Dalton and a star-studded rotating door of the biggest names in sport.
100% FOOTY
Home of the biggest opinions from those who count, 100% Footy saddles up in 2024 to provide rugby league lovers with the clearest picture in the never-ending news cycle of the National Rugby League.
Host James Bracey is joined by Phil Gould and Paul Gallen, going toe to toe on all the biggest issues, with plenty of news from the mailbag thanks to Sydney Morning Herald NRL reporters Danny Weidler and Michael Chammas.
SUNDAY FOOTY SHOW NRL
Hosted by Danika Mason with rugby league legends Andrew Johns, Billy Slater and Brad Fittler, the NRL Sunday Footy Show in 2024 will cover all the action throughout the competition rounds and the finals.
Special guests will dissect and discuss all the news and the big issues from the week, with special guests including Nathan Cleary, Adam Reynolds and Cameron Murray to preview each Sunday game on Channel 9HD and 9Now.
And the biggest opinions from the biggest news breakers will be given on Inside the 10 with journalists Andrew Webster and Michael Chammas featuring on a rotating weekly panel.
THE AFL SUNDAY FOOTY SHOW AND FOOTY CLASSIFIED
Australia’s longest running AFL program, The Sunday Footy Show, will return for its 32nd season in 2024. The panel will talk all things footy, meet high-profile guests and feature up-and-coming stars of the game.
Plus, the hard-hitting Footy Classified returns to set the agenda for the 2024 season. Tune in to AFL football’s best breaking-news and analysis program every Monday and Wednesday night.
WNBL ON 9NOW
9Now jumps onto the court for women’s basketball this year when the WNBL 2023-24 season tips off on 9Now in November.
With 2024 Paris Olympics selection for the Opals up for grabs, 9Now will provide the perfect destination for new and emerging fans of the WNBL to engage with the sport they love, at any time and on any device they choose.