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Seven Sport

Format	Sport
Starring	Bruce McAvaney, Sandy Roberts, Johanna Griggs, Matt White
Country of origin	Australia
Production
Running time	varies
Broadcast
Original channel	Seven Network

Seven Sport is the brand that all sporting events broadcast on the Seven Network are broadcast under.

1 History
2 Theme
3 Events
- 3.1 Future
- 3.2 Annual/Recurring
4 Programs
5 Anchors
6 Tennis Commentators
7 Reporters
8 Awards
9 External links

[edit] History

The Seven Network is a major player in Australian sports broadcasting. However, In 2001 the network ended it's famous 40-year run as AFL football broadcaster when The Nine and Ten television networks, along with pay TV provider Foxtel, jointly won the television rights.

On January 5, 2006 the Australian Football League accepted a bid from Seven and Ten to broadcast AFL games from 2007 - 2011 at a cost of AU$780 million, an AU$280 million increase on the Nine/Ten/Foxtel 2002-2006 joint broadcast venture. Under the deal, the networks will alternate the Brownlow Medal ceremonies and the AFL Grand Final [1]. The Seven Network will broadcast all Friday night Premiership season matches, while sharing the other 7 weekly AFL matches between Network 10, and possibly a third broadcaster such as News Limited/Foxtel or the SBS Australian television network. Industry analysts expect up to 4 of these games to be on sold by Seven and Ten to help pay costs associated with the record breaking broadcast rights. [2]

[edit] Theme

Seven Sport has always used Fanfare for the Common Man as its theme. In recent years it has used a remixed version of the tune.

[edit] Events

Seven Sport holds with broadcast rights to the following events:

[edit] Future

Beijing Olympics (2008)

[edit] Annual/Recurring

AFL Premiership Season with Network Ten 2007-2011
The Australian Open (Golf)- Presented by Sandy Roberts and Jack Newton
The Australian Open (Tennis)
Bledisloe Cup Rugby- Commentary from Gordon Bray Dan Crowley and Tim Horan
Kooyong Classic
The Melbourne Cup Carnival- Hosted By Bruce McAvaney and Simon Marshall
The Spring Racing Carnival
Mt Buller World Aerials
The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The Gold Coast Hard Court Championships
Tri-Nations Rugby
V8 Supercars
Bathurst 1000
Perth Cup

[edit] Programs

Sportsworld
Go Perth Racing

[edit] Anchors

Seven Sport has several anchors who are used on a wide array of sporting events. Most of these anchors are household names and very well known.

Bruce McAvaney
Dennis Cometti
Sandy Roberts
Johanna Griggs
Matthew White
Gordon Bray
Michael Felgate
Basil Zempilas (AFL Caller - Perth Games)
Simon Marshall
John Alexander
Chris Mainwaring (AFL Special Comments - Perth Games)
Chris McDermott (AFL Special Comments - Adelaide Games)
David Schwarz (AFL Special Comments - Friday Night Football)
Tim Watson (AFL Special Comments - Friday Night Football)
Chris Dittmar (AFL Caller - Adelaide Games)
Richard Freedman
Peter Donegan

[edit] Tennis Commentators

[edit] Reporters

Seven Sport also use several reporters to report on sporting events during broadcasts, these reports are usually based on competitors and are often humorous. Reporters for Seven Sport include:

Kylie Gillies
Adam Peacock
Neil Kearney
Shelley Craft

[edit] Awards

They won the 2006 Olympic Golden Rings Gold award in the The Best Olympic Programme category - recognising best overall coverage of the XX Olympic Winter Games in Torino earlier this year. They also received a silver award in the category: The Best Olympic Feature and a Bronze in the Best Olympic Sports Coverage category for their work as host broadcaster for the freestyle skiing and aerials. In 2004 they also won the golden rings in the The Best Olympic Programme category.