The last official State of Origin match until Saturday
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I think it was due to TVW7 not affiliated with east coast stations until 1979 (forming the Seven Network that we know today). Before that, TVW7 had its own programming and presentation.
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30 Years Ago today the 1996 Cricket World Cup commenced. Opening match between England v New Zealand was shown on Channel 9 on tape delay.
Though i believe that’s Optus’s Sports Australia showed matches live.
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Channel Nine Cricket World Cup 1996 Opener
The only footage i could find. Chappelli wiping his nose in the intro
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John Barrett and Liz Smylie calling a Round of 16 match for Channel 7 at the 2000 Australian Open (the network launched their new logo style we still see today and would have the famous Sydney Olympics months later). Bruce McAvaney also features briefly as anchor:
[Courtesy: Tennis Rewind Collection, YT]
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Got my first VCR that i paid for with my own money, made sure it had long play just before the start of that tournament. Not bad for somebody pushing 16 and still at High School
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Tennis Rewind Collection Youtube Channel also features all the coverage of Grand Slam Matches broadcast in Australia (1998-2011) which includes all of Seven’s Australian Open Coverage and Nine’s OG Wimbledon/Roland Garros/US Open Broadcasts as well as all of ABC’s Hopman Cup Coverage.
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Connar are you sure it has every Match of these Grand Slam Events because I can only see random Full Matches and little clips?
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Sorry, what I meant was that this Youtube Channel features full coverage of Grand Slam Matches broadcast in Australia from 1998 until 2011 by Seven (Australian Open Coverage), Nine (OG Wimbledon/Roland Garros/US Open Broadcasts) as well as ABC (Hopman Cup Coverage). You will also find selected interviews.
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Managed to find the original Seven footage of the match point in the 2012 Australian Open men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
Love the words from Bruce: “There’s nothing I can say that can do justice to what we’ve just seen”.
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On This Day 1992
First day/night world cup cricket match
Though i have no recollection of this match being televised. At least not where i was living. Must have been done for overseas audiences
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1991 Bathurst 1000 Top 10 Shootout:
Race promo:
NBL promo:
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The last time Seven was involved in NBL. The following year it moved to Ten.
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With today (February 28 of 2026) marking the passing of one of the greatest Racehorses of the 21st Century (Makybe Diva), I thought that I’d share with you all the 2005 Running of the VRC Melbourne Cup Race, which was Seven’s fourth time exclusively broadcasting the Cup (Third of Fourteen where Greg Miles could be heard on Seven). This one was the third of three straight wins for the great mare.
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Credit: Pigskin’s Poker, Racing, Sports & Old Stuff
The full race from start to finish including post-race interviews and reactions.
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Channel Seven footage of the 2008 Australian Open women’s semi-final between Ana Ivanovic and Daniela Hantuchova, which the former won after being down 0-6, 0-2.
In commentary were Sandy Roberts and Tracy Austin, with (a younger) Todd Woodbridge courtside (before he took on lead commentating duties in the ensuing years).
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the late Dennis Cometti calling cricket in the 1980s
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A rare video I found from 2003 with Clinton Grybas calling alongside Dennis Cometti for this Round 16 match on Fox Footy 1.0
Credit: Jeff Albertson
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I landed in here tonight wondering the same thing! I’ve been watching some of the FlemishDog collection on that other site.
My guess is sometime in the mid/late 90s. They were definitely still going in 1994. A clue may lie in the matches shown on Cricket Gold; there are no tight highlight packages after the 1996-97 ODI series. The matches that they show after this are quite long form and have probably been manually edited.
I do remember highlights of some overseas tours not covered live, e.g. India and Pakistan 1998 (Foxtel had the rights to live coverage). I remember taping them whilst in primary school…they came on after Humphrey B. Bear as I inevitably got the outro 
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Promo for Sports World with Bruce from June 1991:
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