Sports Tonight
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| Sports Tonight | |
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| Format | Sports Program |
| Starring | Brad McEwan (Sundays - Thursdays) Rob Canning (Fridays, Saturdays) Neil Cordy (fill-in) |
| Country of origin |  Australia |
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| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Channel Ten |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | 1993 – present |
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Sports Tonight is a sports information program shown on Network Ten in Australia. The program is broadcast on Monday-Thursday at 10.30pm (combined with Ten Late News), Friday at 12.00am and Saturday and Sunday at 5.30pm. The program provides up-to-date sports scores and team and player information for all codes of football and different sports across Australia.
The show has been running since 1993. From 1993 until 2005, the show ran for half an hour on each weeknight after Ten Late News. The two shows merged in 2006, however there was some criticism by viewers that Sports Tonight was not long enough, and that it should have remained the same.
The show is currently branded as Toyota Sports Tonight. In late 2006, the show was sponsored by Toyota and its upcoming Toyota Aurion, although only minor modifications were done to the on-air graphics to match those of the Aurion colours. In early 2007, the graphics were updated with a heavily sponsored on-air look.
Sports Tonight is aired on Fridays as a separate program.
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[edit] Hosts
- Sports Tonight - Ten's Late News with Sports Tonight (Monday-Thursday): Brad McEwan
- Sports Tonight - Late Edition (Friday): Rob Canning
- Sports Tonight - Weekend Edition (Saturday): Rob Canning, (Sunday): Brad McEwan
[edit] Previous hosts
Previous hosts have included:
- Ryan Phelan (last appeared on Thursday, 21 December 2006)
- Bill Woods (alternative host, 1993-2005. Now presents Ten's Early News (Wednesdays - Fridays) and Weekend News)
- Tim Webster (first host. 1993 - 2004)
- Matthew White (last appeared on Sunday 20 June 2004. Now presents sports on Seven News in Sydney)
- Mark Aiston (had to present on September 8, 2007 due to Brad McEwan, Rob Canning and Neil Cordy being all unavailable)
[edit] Reporters
Sports Tonight has many around the ground reporters across Australia. Some reporters include:
- Ian Cohen: AFL and Australian Open (tennis) reporter.
- Adam Hawse: NRL reporter
- Paul Cochrane: Cricket reporter. Former opening batsman for Brothers CC, Bundaberg.
- Kelli Underwood: AFL and NBL reporter
- Leigh Diffey former motor racing reporter and temporary host of the show. He left the show in December 2006.
[edit] Awards
Sports Tonight has been nominated for the Most Popular Sports Program for the Logies a total of 9 times. The show was nominated in 1997 - 98, 2000, 2002 - 08.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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