I know in the past, after the NRL Grand Final has wrapped, GTV would drop out of the coverage almost immediately after the final siren, meaning viewers would miss the post-match presentation, the lap of honour and the match review among other things. Not sure if this also occurred for Origin coverage though I do know it was sometimes delayed until after 10:30pm in the early noughties (or earlier than that, even).
Notably, this caused massive outrage in 2009 after the Storm won the premiership (which, 200 days later, was stripped from them along with many other team achievements due to salary cap breaches); they went straight to the news instead of showing the post-match formalities.
Not sure when things changed to include the post-match segment but I know for sure it was no later than 2019 because I watched that year’s decider while on holidays in Melbourne.
An article on ESPN website about its coverage of VFL in America in the 1980s, which even led to the introduction of the 50m line in VFL matches in 1986.
To my knowledge, Seven aired classic AFL matches with the original commentary on Saturday nights in Melbourne, while Nine had two versions of “The Greatest”: one airing on Friday nights (later Sunday afternoons) looking back at classic NRL moments, and another looking back at classic Australian Open tennis matches, using world feed commentary (remember, 2019 was the first year of Nine’s current Tennis Australia deal, and nearly all matches they reflected on were prior to that).
Yes that happeded during an origin as well. A fews years ago i was visiting some family down in Tasmania and we watched the Origin 3 and basically as soon as the match was over they went to the AFL Footy Show. I was filthy i didn’t get to see the Blues do a lap of honour.
Only exhibitions at this point. The next year Hawthorn and Essendon went over for another.
Melbourne also played Sydney in Vancouver in 1987, which was covered by 10 with Eddie McGuire and Bruce McAvaney calling and Steven Quartermain hosting from the studio.
Seems more interesting for seemingly being a unique production just to air on Prime, perhaps even just in the Canberra region due to it being a Brumbies game?
Seems odd they’d have multiple presenters for just something being made for Prime Canberra though - did Seven produce the world feed, but this part was just for local viewers?
