AFL Grand Final: guide
Here are all the broadcast details of the AFL Grand Final marathon on Seven / 7mate.
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Here are all the broadcast details of the AFL Grand Final marathon on Seven / 7mate.
The big game itself is due to kick off at 2:30pm Saturday, although coverage begins from 1pm. Hopefully this is the last time the game screens in SD.
The 2013 AFL season reaches a climax on Saturday with the Grand Final between Hawthorn and Fremantle broadcast Live and Exclusive on Channel 7 around Australia.
The football feast kicks off late on Friday night with the traditional Grand Final eve marathon, before live coverage commences from 9am AEST with a special edition of AFL Game Day, hosted by Hamish McLachlan
The biggest names in football commentary will be on deck throughout the day, led by match callers Bruce McAvaney and Dennis Cometti and including Leigh Matthews, Matthew Richardson, Luke Darcy, Brian Taylor, Cameron Ling, Tim Watson, Tom Harley, Nick Riewoldt, Basil Zempilas and Samantha Lane.
An enormous production team will ensure fans at home catch all the action, with over 175 crew, 55km of cabling and more than 50 cameras involved – including Spidercam, goalpost cameras, a chopper cam and cameras trained on the interchange benches, the coaches’ boxes and in the tunnels to and from the rooms.
Special features include Leigh Matthews interviewing Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson and captain Luke Hodge; we’ve spent the month following Jack Gunston and Nathan Fyfe, speaking with them each week about the agony and ecstasy of September; we also catch up with Stephanie Gray, the mother of Docker Stephen Hill and Hawk Bradley Hill; and Fremantle mastermind Ross Lyon gives us his final thoughts on the game.
Seven’s AFL Grand Final coverage will be broadcast in 251 territories around the world including Asia-Pacific, UK, Ireland, Canada, Africa, USA, Europe, Middle East, New Zealand and Latin America, as well as every country online.
Throughout the broadcast, viewers can also have their say on the Grand Final using the Toyota Viewer Vote function available via the 7Sport app or online at www.7sport.com.au/viewervote with results updated in real-time.
Friday September 27
AFL Marathon
Sandy Roberts hosts an all-night marathon featuring some of the great Grand Finals, including 1970, 1977, 1989, 1997 and the Swan’s triumph in 2012.
Melbourne 11.30pm on Channel 7
Sydney | Brisbane 11.30pm on 7mate
Adelaide 11.45pm on Channel 7 (630am-7am on 7mate)
Perth 11.45pm on Channel 7 (5am-7am on 7mate)
Saturday September 28
AFL Game Day – Grand Final Edition
AFL Game Day comes live from the MCG in a special two-hour Grand Final edition hosted by Hamish McLachlan, with a rotating panel of guests including Jude Bolton, Michael Voss, Nic Naitanui, Wayne Carey, Leigh Montagna, Mark McVeigh, Nick Maxwell and Seven News chief AFL reporter Mark Stevens.
Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane 9am Live on Channel 7
Adelaide 8.30am Live on Channel 7
Perth 7am Live on Channel 7
AFL Grand Final – Pre Match
At 11am AEST the pace picks up with Seven’s Saturday Night Footy team of Brian Taylor, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson, Cameron Ling and Samantha Lane on the panel for the countdown to the premiership decider, with Giaan Rooney reporting from around the MCG. Special guests include Essendon captain Jobe Watson and the actress Jerry Hall, while we have the best of the Lie Detector, Max Bailey features in #Discovered and there’s a bumper edition of Media St. Basil Zempilas calls the Grand Final sprint with Leigh Montagna and Campbell Brown.
Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane 11am Live on Channel 7
Adelaide 10.30am Live on Channel 7
Perth 9am Live on Channel 7
AFL Grand Final
An AFL Premiership season that began over six months ago with 18 teams in the hunt for the ultimate prize is now down to two – Hawthorn and Fremantle – on that last Saturday in September. Match callers will be Bruce McAvaney and Dennis Cometti with expert commentary from Leigh Matthews, Tim Watson, Matthew Richardson, Tom Harley, Cameron Ling and Nick Riewoldt.
Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane 1pm Live on Channel 7
Adelaide 12.30pm Live on Channel 7
Perth 11am Live on Channel 7
AFL Grand Final Post Match
As the celebrations kick off after the final siren we bring you all the emotion and the stories from inside the rooms before launching into a post-match concert featuring Hunters & Collectors and Birds of Tokyo. And then the premiership-winning team will be presented to their adoring fans back on the MCG. With Brian Taylor, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson and Cameron Ling.
Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane 6pm Live on 7mate
Adelaide 5.30pm Live on Channel 7, from 6pm Live on 7mate
Perth 4pm Live on Channel 7, from 530pm on 7mate
Sunday September 29
AFL Game Day
Hosted by Hamish McLachlan with Leigh Matthews, Tom Harley, Andrew Welsh, Simon Marshall and Seven News chief AFL reporter Mark Stevens
Melbourne | Adelaide | Perth 10am on Channel 7
Sydney | Brisbane 10am on 7mate
AFL Grand Final Replay
Melbourne | Adelaide | Perth 11am on Channel 7
Sydney | Brisbane 11am on 7mate
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16 Responses
And a year later it’s still in SD not HD at all, maybe you need to right another post as it scemed to have work with Ten with there special on 50th maybe just maybe that will rub off on Seven as well.
Regarding the HD question, here’s a guess: it will be in HD next year on Seven’s new subscription IPTV service…
Thanks David.
Does anyone know why the Grand Final parade is not being broadcast on Channel Seven?
On FOX Footy.
@Mr Leao 7’s coverage is wonderful? The coverage in Tas has gone backwards over the last two years. The Brownlow medal was quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen on tv this year! And that’s saying something!
And better than a fair slice of that will be the
Before the Game – Grand Final Edition on TEN on Friday night.
Channel 7 will have wonderful coverage, Seven has a rich history of broadcasting major Sports, And they will continue that tradition on Saturday with the AFL Grand Final, People shouldn’t whinge, You are taking it for Granted,
It’s supposed to be the greatest game of the AFL season and yet Channel 7 in their lack of wisdom can only show it in SD. Channel 7, you are truly selfish and pathetic and don’t deserve exclusive rights to the grand final. Why TV stations continue to do everything they can to annoy their customers is beyond me, but this sort of ignorance drives me to want to download more shows that 7 air.
@dylan2012 Foxtel doesn’t have the rights to show the Grand Final Live. As for it being in HD, it’ll be just as much in HD as the other finals or any over game covered by 7.
Yeah hopefully the last Grand Final in SD, hopefully next year Seven will return to broadcasting their main channel in HD, because all analogue TV signals would have been switched off in all areas of Australia by then.
@ Dylan2012 last year it was the same on Fox Footy, and when the Grand Final was on it had a blank screen with a countdown to Half time/ Full time. and had a half time and full time show.
amanda_20 Ditto re Swans so I will be supporting Freo.
dylan2012 The GF is live and exclusive to 7 only. Even though the AFL website may show that Foxtel go to air live at 1.00pm, that is only for a “AFL Grand Final Countdown” coverage which is for 90 minutes. Once the game starts Seven will be the only TV station broadcasting live. 7Mate pick up the live coverage after the game when 7 go to news services.
Since my Swans aren’t playing in the Grand Final. I don’t know who I will follow. Although, I think it could be a draw…
Can I point out but according to Foxtel/Austar EPG and the AFL website the AFL Grand Final is not live and exclusive to 7/7mate. Both Sources State that the Grand Final will be Telecast Live, in HD and with no ad breaks from siren to siren on Fox Footy.
Thanks David! Go Freo!