Marathon coverage for AFL Grand Final
TEN / ONE is planning 12.5 hrs coverage of the AFL Grand Final day, the most comprehensive coverage in TV history.
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TEN is planning a marathon 12.5 hr coverage of the AFL Grand Final day, the most comprehensive coverage in TV history.
Split across TEN and ONE, it begins at 8am with the North Melbourne Breakfast and ends with a new 2 ½ hour post-game wrap show on ONE.
The commentary team includes Anthony Hudson, Luke Darcy, Robert Walls, Tim Lane and Malcolm Blight, while special guests Liz Ellis and Nicole Livingstone will review the season that was and present interviews with key people of the day.
From 6pm – 8.30pm, ONE will continue the day’s live coverage from the MCG with both team’s press conferences. Fans will also be able to the see the winning festivities both at the ground and at Federation Square along with full post-match analysis, hosted by Anthony Hudson and Luke Darcy.
The AFL Grand Final, will be simulcast on both TEN and ONE with the coverage available in full high definition with Dolby 5.1 surround sound on ONE.
Network TEN General Manager of Sport, David White said, “ONE is for sports lovers whether you are a diehard fan or watching sport for the first time. The AFL Grand Final is the biggest sporting event of the year and everyone wants to know what happens after the siren. To be able to give our viewers more than 12 hours of LIVE coverage is something we are very proud of,” he said.
Schedule (AEST)
8AM: Both TEN and ONE will televise the North Melbourne Breakfast live and hosted by Michael Christian before going to the MCG for the first pre-game show looking at the season in review hosted by Anthony Hudson, Robert Walls and Matthew Lloyd.
10:30AM: Luke Darcy, Liz Ellis, Malcolm Blight, Anthony Hudson, Nicole Livingstone and Matthew Richardson will chat to the key players of the day including the coaches and support staff along with televising the excitement of the day with the crowd starting to arrive at the G.
12.30pm to 1.30pm: The Grand Final Preview Show giving viewers at home the definitive guide to the season’s finale. Hosted by Tim Lane along with Robert Walls and Luke Darcy, Network Ten will dissect all the tactical issues and bring the viewer all the late breaking news that happens in the lead up to the match.
1:30PM: Pre-match entertainment before the siren.
Post Game: Following the siren and the on-field celebrations TEN will turn to the evening news while ONE will continue with its extended 2 ½ hour show until 8.30pm.
Times are Eastern Standard Time. Viewers in Perth and Adelaide will also see live coverage from 6am and 7.30am respectively. Viewers in Tasmania will see the coverage on one hour delay on TDT.
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28 Responses
Ten may be doing 12 hour coverage of the finals, yet on saturday night Carlton is playing Brisbane in the finals, and its delayed til 9.30 even in Qld and Brisbanes playing, pathetic just because the rugby union is on.
Ten and ONE are setting a new standard for AFL coverage!
It’s kind of insulting having Liz Ellis on an AFL show. More than once, I have heard her deride the game. Why not have Samantha Lane and/or Emma Quayle? – they are both excellent analysts of the game.
Great work Ten! That’s the way to leverage the value in your product. Seven take notice. Hopefully ads will be shown wisely. ….and for goodness sake footballers, in the after match presentation, shake the hands of the little kids and place a cap on their heads before you become yobbos once more.
Well done 10.
Great news. If only TEN could have the Grand Final every year.
Last years coverage on Seven was a disgrace, cutting to the news before they showed the team song is unforgivable.
Why Seven pay so much money for rights to games they don’t want to broadcast properly, is beyond me.
Looking forward to some great TEN coverage. Seven, watch and learn.
Oh sport, think i would rather the wildlife doco.
Will tasmania get it live on southern cross then???
Absolutely ridiculous having it delayed on ONE, what about the post match stuff we’ll have to wait an hour for that, stupid money hungry southern cross!
What, you mean they wont be cutting to a wildlife documentary at 4pm in Perth this year? Outrageous.
Oh right, Ten have the rights to this years Grand Final. A network that actually treats its viewers with respect.
I expect the wildlife documentary to return in 2010.
Daylight saving does not start in Tasmania until Sunday October 4.
To clarify the AFL coverage in Tasmania on Saturdays, it is shown first on Southern Cross before it is shown on delay on TDT. For example, on this Saturday, the Hawthorn-Essendon game is shown live at 2pm on Southern Cross and 3pm on TDT and ONE; the Port Adelaide-North Melbourne is shown live at 7.30pm on SC and 9.30pm on TDT and ONE. Therefore on September 26, GF will be shown live on SC and on delay on TDT.
what do liz ellis and nicole livingstoe k\now about afl, nothing?. there are more qualified women to talk footy out there
daylight saving starts the 4th of October in both Victoria, and Tasmania
@Johnston, yes i meant to say post match coverage and conferences, opps
Don’t Tasmania have daylight saving by then? It would be live but the times one hour later as a result of DST.
is Tasmania in daylight saving already by then?
@ mac: do you mean post-match press conferences? Yes it will be great if ONE shows the post-match press conference with captain and coach from the winning team.
@ DansDans: the coverage on TDT is delayed by one hour is because Southern Cross Tasmania (an affiliate of Seven, but also owns the rights to show Saturday AFL matches live) will show it live across the Apple Isle.
2.5 hours to analyse an australian rules game?? Bit over the top really.
Awesome…I love savouring the moment after Grand Final and this will do well given people won’t just tune into the News which will be led by the event you’ve just been watching!
good to see ten using ONE for pre game coverage. great idea showing the pre game press conferences.
One hour delay in Tassie? Thats a bit dumb isnt it?
Also where is Quarters for the day? Is he doing the radio coverage on MMM instead of TV for TEN?
Good commitment by ONE – looking forward to GF day!
no surprises that 10 will out do anything 7 does in sports coverage
Good to see that Ten and One can do a better job of covering sport than Channel Seven. Well Done!
Good on them…
I am not a football fan, but what a great use of the oneHD channel. Well done Ten. this is what it is all about. One HD does a great job of the pre race shows for Moto GP and F1 so this should work well.