Nine and Ten would sometimes provide local commentators during the original Fox Footy Channel period such as Mark Aiston from 10 Adelaide, Kym Dillon from 9 Adelaide and Cometti calling for 9 Perth
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Blasts from the past! Wonder how they’re going.
Poor Mark has been through a lot, was sad to see his downfall about a decade ago. Once an institution in Adelaide. Used to like his Monday sport segment with Natarsha Belling on Ten’s Morning News (live-cross from the ADS-10 newsroom despite the studio being at the ATV-10 South Yarra Como Centre in Melbourne).
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Any details about this. All I know is he left due to ‘stress’
Also within the past 24 hours:
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Dillon does drive for SEN SA with Michelangelo Rucci, I think he also calls AFL in Adelaide for them as well.
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Also detailed on his talent management’s web page.
Marijuana, cocaine, alcoholism, gambling addiction and rehab. 2016.
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Cometti did games on Fox Footy as well for Eagles/Freo home games
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Apparently he did all Sunday Perth games regardless of the broadcaster unless he was covering a different game.
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Can’t find an ‘Old Fox Footy’ thread so thought this would be the best place to ask, but does anyone remember what happened to Ian Robertson at Fox Footy in 2002?
I kinda remember he cracked the sads a few months in because he was getting the lesser matches on Fox Footy and quit?
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Given Foxtel only had 3-4 matches each round, no doubt there would of been less to cover rather than Seven having every match.
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IIRC, he was criticised for his call of a Carlton-West Coast game where he was biased towards the Blues:
Close Finish - Carlton vs West Coast (Round 12 2002) (youtube.com)
I thought he was sacked from Fox as a result of this.
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The Fifth Quarter - Round 15 2004
Credit: Youtube/Jeff Albertson
The Fifth Quarter from July 2004 after a Crows match
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Watched it most weekends when it aired in Sydney often watching on tape the next day as it would usually run late night (but they became better in the later years).
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2009 Finals promo “on your premiership network”
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They well and truly were the premiership network in 2009. At that stage they were going on to broadcast their 7th grand final in 8 season.
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From the top of my head, I can recall these rosters for most (if not all) of the following seasons:
2002
Saturday afternoon: Huddo and Peter Daicos (?)
Saturday night: Quarters and Michael Christian
2003-05
Saturday afternoon: Huddo and Michael Christian
Saturday night: Quarters and Tim Lane
Note: Tim Lane joined 10 in 2003 after his well-publicized spat with Eddie McGuire which resulted in him walking out on Nine the day before the 2002 premiership season started.
2006-
Saturday afternoon: Michael Christian and one of Quarters/Tim Lane/Huddo
Saturday night: 2/3 of Quarters/Tim Lane/Huddo
I also know that towards the end of Ten’s AFL run, Michael Christian began calling Saturday nights (again).
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RIP a famous face during the ten years of Coverage - Mr Robert Walls
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Saw a vid with footy comedian Broden Kelly recently and had a great sit-down with Andy Maher:
Never knew Nine lost out on any finals and GF rights in the early-mid 2000s deal, because Nine HQ in Sydney/lawyers didn’t want to touch NRL, one could argue then-sceptical or dubious about the AFL, especially in Sydney and Brisbane and when it came to the finals.
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The Lions Saturday Night home games were definitely on delay in Brisbane for at least the beginning of that 9/10/fox deal. We were able to get home from the match and catch the last minute or two and the post match stuff on 10.
Around '04/'05, Ten started showing their match at 9:30ish on Saturday nights in Brisbane if the Lions weren’t playing in that timeslot. Didn’t last long there before they just decided to say ‘bugger it’ and showed them live.
Then in 2007 QLD and NSW started getting Friday Night Football via Main Event, which meant you could finally have access to every match live/ 30 min delay up here with a Foxtel subscription.
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I know in 2005 the Brisbane Lions had 17 Saturday matches; only one or two would’ve not been in the evening.
Prior to 2012, it was very rare for either the Lions or Sydney Swans to have a Friday night game due to a clash with the NRL. It was (99% of the time) never possible between 2002-06 as Nine held the broadcasting rights to both major codes, televising one after the other depending on the market.
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IIRC I think it was mentioned somewhere that the Swans asked not to have Friday night matches due to the clash with NRL
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