# Sports Broadcasting History **URL:** \ **Category:** TV History\ **Created:** [June 22, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762 "2019-06-22T10:27:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/514 "2022-09-05T07:36:26Z")
Promo from SBS’ coverage of the 2009 Ashes: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NmdEWpz204Y/hqdefault.jpg "SBS Cricket The Ashes 2009 Promo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmdEWpz204Y) ---
**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/515 "2022-09-05T07:50:18Z")
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**Author:** ![Sifon](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sifon/32/65_2.png) [@Sifon](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Sifon)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/516 "2022-09-05T09:01:38Z")
One of the replies to that tweet was interesting > Dying art indeed. Not sure cost pressures can be blamed though. Speaking of on-site, Nine’s US Open coverage from 2001 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5hoZzsU_nz0/hqdefault.jpg "WIN Television Sports ID, Countdown & Channel Nine Wide World of Sports Intro 'US Open' (2001)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hoZzsU_nz0) ---
**Author:** ![tamago\_otoko](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tamago_otoko/32/488237_2.png) [@tamago\_otoko](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/tamago_otoko)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/517 "2022-09-05T11:35:07Z")
Yep, now Fox can’t even be bothered sending commentators to the ground for the flagship AFL and NRL content. Much easier to just call it off a screen in South Melbourne and put the funds saved into creating yet another unfunny live show… ---
**Author:** ![BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bigvic/32/209954_2.png) [@BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BigVic)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/518 "2022-09-05T12:18:26Z")
Fox Sports presented onsite. When Nine first had Wimbledon and US Open they did on-site coverage. Now everything is done in a studio ---
**Author:** ![matt897](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@matt897](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/matt897)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/519 "2022-09-05T21:09:00Z")
> [@BigVic](#): > > Fox Sports presented onsite. When Nine first had Wimbledon and US Open they did on-site coverage. Now everything is done in a studio During the last few years of Fox Sports they did not do this. They used the world feed which constantly would finish coverage for a couple hours before the night session while matches were going on. Couldn’t even watch matches online. They didn’t care, hence why it went to ESPN ---
**Author:** ![Aurora](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/aurora/32/249208_2.png) [@Aurora](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Aurora)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/520 "2022-09-11T13:23:02Z")
Why would SES take the Friday night match at 8pm, yet RTS delayed it until late night with just an hour’s lead over non-AFL markets NSW/QLD? The stations should have been aligned by this time? ---
**Author:** ![southeastsa](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@southeastsa](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/southeastsa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/521 "2022-09-12T11:15:19Z")
Not sure, but AFL was more popular in the South East due to the proximity to Victoria. The VFL was more popular than the SANFL, where many people supported Victorian teams. ---
**Author:** ![TheHomeOfMusic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/thehomeofmusic/32/51117_2.png) [@TheHomeOfMusic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TheHomeOfMusic)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/522 "2022-09-13T08:41:17Z")
and in the 1980s SES used to take Seven’s Big League (VFL) from Melbourne. Live telecast of Saturday and Sunday VFL games began in 1987 when Broadcom got the rights and SAS10 broadcast it in Adelaide, so SES would be relayed from there. Even though SES also covered far western Victoria. ---
**Author:** ![TheHomeOfMusic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/thehomeofmusic/32/51117_2.png) [@TheHomeOfMusic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TheHomeOfMusic)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/523 "2022-09-13T08:47:13Z")
In the 2000s and 2010s Southern Cross (Seven) Central used to broadcast not only Seven and Ten’s games but also Brisbane Lions home games where Foxtel supplied coverage. This stopped some time in the mid-2010s when SC Central only took games telecast on Seven in Victoria. I watched several of these games in sports pubs in Melbourne where they had a satellite feed of SC Central and GWN7 and showed live games on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I also remember in 2013 SC Central showed the Brisbane Lions v Geelong match (Sunday twilight game on Foxtel) where the Lions came from behind to win at the last second. ---
**Author:** ![bands06](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bands06/32/224070_2.png) [@bands06](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bands06)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/524 "2022-09-29T00:33:54Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Xc6uURTU2KE/hqdefault.jpg "1999 AFL National Draft") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc6uURTU2KE) 1999 AFL draft coverage. Really weird mix of stuff going on in it. Old 7 logo, new AFL logo, and what seems like the 1998 graphics (don’t think they’re the 99 ones) but with something else added with the blue and white stuff (could be wrong). Along with the Millennium match, it must be one of the only times the old 7 and new AFL logos appeared together. ---
**Author:** ![Spi](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/spi/32/270161_2.png) [@Spi](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Spi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/525 "2022-09-29T06:45:14Z")
> [@bands06](#): > > Along with the Millennium match, it must be one of the only times the old 7 and new AFL logos appeared together. I think the other potential time was during the International Rules series of that year (held in Australia in October), the title graphics of which I definitely recall including both the new AFL and the GAA logos. The graphic theme would have been custom for the draft (Seven were also making special graphics for the Brownlow; they had kind of a fetish for the whizz-bang animated stuff in the late 90s!) but the player graphics definitely look based on the 1998 ones; certainly possible that they didn’t bother creating new ones for '99. [I wouldn’t read too much into the colours - although they did use the '98 graphics but with blue instead of gold on some of them during the '99 pre-season, I presume the colours here were just used to fit into the rest of the graphics and the AFL/draft logo colours, which would’ve fit the old AFL logo in '98 just as much.] Strange in retrospect that the national draft was shown on Seven live or near-live in the southern states, even going as far back as 1993 according to Wikipedia. I get it, even as a northerner who would probably have found it “riveting 🙄” at the time. It’s instructive as to the leads the AFL and Fox Footy have taken from the NFL regarding the national draft, thirty years down the track - like separating the first round out into its own night - or trying their own things with varying success (revealing the top ten in reverse order, I think they did one year??), but of course the Australian way of covering things is never going to be as bombastic as what ESPN do with the latter. ---
**Author:** ![stmookeyj027](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/stmookeyj027/32/414672_2.png) [@stmookeyj027](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/stmookeyj027)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/526 "2022-09-29T10:49:40Z")
Also Mick McGuane’s last appearance on 7, took a coaching role in Tasmania the next year. ---
**Author:** ![BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bigvic/32/209954_2.png) [@BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BigVic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/527 "2022-10-09T15:52:18Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RSBf2yEWcvQ/hqdefault.jpg "Brownlow Ben") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBf2yEWcvQ) Nine’s outro for their 2005 Brownlow Medal coverage. Host was Eddie McGuire ---
**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/528 "2022-10-14T00:08:24Z")
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**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/529 "2022-10-16T06:49:29Z")
Speed Channel: ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/f/f/2/ff283a00c0bdb982819ead989e71d495ffd4fa49.png) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/f/b/d/fbdec1917c1cb380b4b1bfcf7ebf32de8bb927ad.jpeg) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/6/c/6/6c675bf316e34d44e6d13f4fee9c4c5010a83a39.jpeg) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/c/6/5/c6560dd6770eab1ce599ca58f9ee0cc9727642a4.jpeg) (The following two have converted in blue - they are red in the promos) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/6/9/3/693f15d2fbf808bebb3e2800f9904051c3464b6d.jpeg) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/e/9/f/e9f4d7ea11715c72fb666b1d44b61d53b7dad266.jpeg) Found some old videos on the Fox Sports News website: > **[Motorsport | Motorsport | Fox Sports Videos](https://tags.news.com.au/prod/newskey/generator.html?origin=https%3a%2f%2fwww.foxsports.com.au%2fvideo%2fmotorsport%2fmotorsport&16659030781873172982)** > > Fox Sports Videos for Motorsport > **[SPEED's Hot Pass | Fox Sports Videos](https://tags.news.com.au/prod/newskey/generator.html?origin=https%3a%2f%2fwww.foxsports.com.au%2fvideo%2fmotorsport%2fmotorsport%2fspeeds-hot-pass%21190610&1665903081221037776)** > > Ride with Marcos Ambrose in Finger Lakes 355 at Watkins Glen International, with SPEED's Hot Pass. > **[SPEED in 2012 | Fox Sports Videos](https://tags.news.com.au/prod/newskey/generator.html?origin=https%3a%2f%2fwww.foxsports.com.au%2fvideo%2fmotorsport%2fmotorsport%2fspeed-in-2012%21148402&1665903161390410166)** > > 2012 is going to be a great year, with a plethora of motorsport action available on SPEED. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Laverty](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Jack\_Laverty](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Jack_Laverty)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/530 "2022-10-16T06:55:42Z")
Whats with the Speed motorsport channel 505? Is this a over flow channel? ---
**Author:** ![foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/foxyrover/32/272518_2.png) [@foxyrover](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/foxyrover)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/531 "2022-10-16T07:05:51Z")
It’s old mate. The videos above are from 2012/2013. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Laverty](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Jack\_Laverty](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Jack_Laverty)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/532 "2022-10-16T07:28:24Z")
Yeah i know. I saying is the 505 channel a overflow channel for Speed? ---
**Author:** ![greenpea](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@greenpea](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/greenpea)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762/533 "2022-10-16T10:38:51Z")
No, Speed was on channel 505 which is now Fox Sports 505 [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762.md?page=25) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/sports-broadcasting-history/9762.md?page=27)