| Sports Tonight | |
|---|---|
| Format | Sports Program |
| Starring | Brad McEwan (Monday - Thursday) Rob Canning (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 19 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Ten News |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) & approx. 20min during Ten Late News (Mon-Thur). |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Network Ten (1993 - 2011) One HD (2009 - 2011) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | 30 August 1993 – 30 September 2011 |
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on its sister digital channel One HD). The program was broadcast on Weeknights (on One) at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm (on Ten combined with Ten Late News), Fridays at 12.00am (on Ten after the Late News), and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT (on One, though this sometimes varied due to live sports coverage or other programming). The program provided up-to-date sports scores and team and player information for all codes of football and different sports across Australia.
The show ran from 1993 to 2011. From 1993 until 2005, the show ran for half an hour on each weeknight after Ten Late News. The two shows merged in 2006, but there was some criticism by viewers that Sports Tonight was not long enough and that it should have remained the same.
In 2011 the weekend 5:30pm editions of Sports Tonight normally seen on Network Ten were removed from those timeslots, due to the weekend news bulletins moving to 6pm. To compensate for this, a Sports Tonight-branded sports report were incorporated into these bulletins. This edition of Sports Tonight had been airing in the 5:30pm weekend slot since 2000. Thus, the only time Sports Tonight is aired on Network Ten is in the traditional late-night time slot with Ten Late News.
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 was aired on Fridays as a separate program.
Since March 2009, a weeknightly 9.30 pm edition (started out at 7pm) of Sports Tonight aired on One with a weekend wrap edition on Sundays. Since 8 May 2011 with the relaunch of One, it aired at around 10.30pm weeknights (varies if other programming is on) and at 11.00pm on Fridays.
In December 2010 Sports Tonight updated their on-air graphics. On 5 July 2011, it was announced that the show would be axed; the show continued to air until just before the conclusion of the football seasons.
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At the time of Sports Tonight's axing, the presenters were:
Previous Hosts included:
Sports Tonight had many around the ground reporters across Australia. Reporters included:
Sports Tonight had been nominated for the Most Popular Sports Program for the Logies a total of 11 times. The show was nominated in every year since 1997, with the exception of 1999 and 2001.