Andrew Maher (born 16 July 1965 in Victoria, Australia) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. He is best known for covering Australian rules football for the Seven and Ten television networks. He has also worked in television and radio.
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Maher began working for weekly football newspaper 'Inside Football' as a staff writer. He progressed to be the paper's assistant editor. He then moved on to The Sunday Age where he worked as Football Editor in the late 1990s.[1]
In 1996, he joined television production company Vuecast (now AFL Films) after it landed the contract to supply content for the Pay TV operator 'Sports AFL' as part of the Optus Vision network. As part of its Pay TV coverage of AFL football, Andrew mixed duties as host of 'One On One', the producer of its oft-praised Monday night show 'Football Feedback', and as the station's boundary rider on its exclusive match-day coverage.
Joining Channel 7 in 2001, Maher produced the highly acclaimed ‘Talking Footy’ whilst sharing boundary line duties on Channel 7's football coverage.[1]
In 2002, Maher moved to Channel 10 after they, with Channel 9 and Foxtel won the rights to broadcast the AFL from Channel 7. He has multiple roles at Channel 10, working on-air and also as a part of their AFL/Sports production teams.
Maher's Channel 10 on-air contributions are as the boundary rider for their Saturday afternoon coverage, the host of their Saturday night preview show "Before the Game" as well as on the Saturday night review show, The Fifth Quarter as co-host (with Michael Christian).
In September 2011 Fox Sports announced he will be hosting the soccer panel show Fox Sports FC.[2]
Maher is the host and presenter on Melbourne Radio Station SEN 1116 morning show Morning Glory, where he took over from Garry Lyon, after beating Jim Wilson and Tony Jones for the role.[3]
Andrew's co-hosts on "Morning Glory" are Tim Watson and previously Billy Brownless
Andrew has also worked on numerous other SEN programs, including "The Insiders" and "Retrospective".
Andrew works on the AFL Website as a presenter for some of their online video content.
Andrew contributes on the following "shows":
Andrew is a keen Carlton Football Club supporter and is a member of Carlton coterie group the 'Blue Believers'.