Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand

This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand. For a list of other country's broadcasting rights, see Sports television broadcast contracts.

Contents 1 American Football (Gridiron) 2 Athletics 3 Australian Rules Football 4 Baseball 5 Basketball 6 Commonwealth Games 7 Cricket 8 Cycling 9 Football (Soccer) 9.1 Leagues 9.2 Domestic Cups 9.3 International Club Competitions 9.4 International Matches 9.4.1 International Tournaments 10 Golf 11 Horse-racing 12 Lacrosse 13 Motor Racing 14 Netball 15 Olympics 16 Rowing 17 Rugby League 18 Rugby Union 19 Swimming 20 Ten-pin bowling 21 Tennis

American Football (Gridiron)

• National Football League:
  • Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
  • ESPN: Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. Most play-off games.
  • Super Bowl: ESPN

Athletics

• IAAF Golden League:
  • Sky Sport (New Zealand): Highlights, plus some live coverage.

Australian Rules Football

• Australian Football League
  • Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights. All finals covered live or on delay

Baseball

• Major League Baseball (regular season): ESPN.
• World Series: Sky Sport.

Basketball

• National Basketball League:
  • Maori Television: All New Zealand Breakers home games on a 30 minute delay.
  • Sky Sport: Has rights to any game shown on Fox Sports Australia

• National Basketball Association: ESPN

Commonwealth Games

• 2010 Commonwealth Games: Television New Zealand

Cricket

• International Cricket:
  • Sky Sport: Shows All New Zealand Home and away matches also shows Australian Home International and most of English Home International fixtures
  • Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.

• Domestic Cricket:
  • Sky Sport: Live coverage of selected games, and highlights of some games.
  • Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Showed live free to air coverage State Shield and Twenty20 finals.

Cycling

• Tour de France - Sky Sport (live coverage)

Football (Soccer)

Leagues

• A-League: Sky Sport
• English Premier League: Sky Sport
• English Football Championship: Sky Sport
• Spanish La Liga: ESPN
• Italian Serie A: ESPN
• Major League Soccer: ESPN
• New Zealand Football Championship: Sky Sport (finals coverage only)

Domestic Cups

• English FA Cup: ESPN
• English League Cup: Sky Sport
• German DFB Cup: ESPN
• Coppa Italia: ESPN
• Chatham Cup: Sky Sport (final only)

International Club Competitions

• UEFA Champions League: ESPN
• UEFA Europa League: ESPN
• FIFA Club World Cup: Sky Sport

International Matches

• World Cup Qualifying: Sky Sport, ESPN
• Other International Matches: Sky Sport, Prime, ESPN

International Tournaments

• UEFA Euro 2008: Sky Sport, Prime
• FIFA World Cup: Sky Sport, Television New Zealand

Golf

• Australian Open: Sky Sport
• British Open: Sky Sport
• Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
• PGA European Tour: ESPN, Sky Sport
• PGA Tour: ESPN, Sky Sport
• U.S. Open: Sky Sport
• U.S Masters: Sky Sport
• New Zealand PGA Championship : TV3
• World Golf Championships : Sky Sport
• Mission Hills World Cup : Sky Sport
• New Zealand Open : Sky Sport

Horse-racing

• Melbourne Cup: Trackside, TV3
• Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside
• All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
• All international race meetings: Trackside
• Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: TV3, Television New Zealand
• Triple Crown Series: ESPN

Lacrosse

• National Lacrosse League: ESPN

Motor Racing

• FIA Formula One: Sky Sport
• GP2: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• V8 Supercars: TV3, C4 (when TV3 have schedule clashes)
• A1 Grand Prix: TV3
• FIA World Rally Championships: Sky Sport
• Motorcycle Grand Prix (MotoGP): Sky Sport
• NASCAR: Sky Sport
• Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
• IRL IndyCar Series: ESPN
• Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• New Zealand Domestic Racing Series':
  • Television New Zealand (highlights and some live coverage)
  • Sky Sport (highlights)

Netball

• International Netball:
  • Television New Zealand (live coverage)
  • Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• 2007 World Championships
  • Sky Sport (live coverage of selected games)
  • Television New Zealand (live or delayed coverage of all Silver Ferns' pool games, delayed coverage of Australia versus Samoa, live coverage of one quarter final, semi final and final, highlights of other quarter finals and semifinals)
• ANZ Championship:
  • Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
  • Television New Zealand (delayed coverage of one game per round, semi finals, preliminary final and final)
• National Championships
  • Television New Zealand (semi finals and final only)

Olympics

• 2010 Winter Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
• 2012 Summer Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
• Paralympic Games: Television New Zealand

Rowing

• World Rowing Championships: Sky Sport
• Rowing World Cup: Sky Sport

Rugby League

• National Rugby League:
  • Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games sometimes only show one live game on Sunday and show the other delayed
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per a week Saturday night and Sunday, plus delayed coverage of all Warriors games.
  • Te Reo: Delayed coverage of one game per week in Māori language. Riiki NRL shows on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm
• Toyota Cup:
  • Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
• State of Origin:
  • Sky Sport: Live Coverage
  • Prime: Delayed coverage
• European Super League:
  • Sky Sport
• Rugby League Challenge Cup:
  • Sky Sport
• Tri Nations:
  • Sky Sport: Live Coverage
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

Rugby Union

• Rugby World Cup: TV3 (2007)
• Tri Nations:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
• Super Rugby:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend on Friday night and Sunday Afternoon. They also show highlights of all games and one full game.
• Currie Cup: The Rugby Channel
• Heineken Cup: ESPN, The Rugby Channel
• ITM Cup:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend
• Six Nations Championship: The Rugby Channel
• Aviva Premiership: The Rugby Channel
• Magners League: The Rugby Channel
• Anglo-Welsh Cup: The Rugby Channel

Swimming

• FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

Ten-pin bowling

• PBA Tour: ESPN

Tennis

• ATP World Tour Masters 1000: Sky Sport
• Grand Slam: Sky Sport
  • Wimbledon Championships: Television New Zealand
• Heineken Open: Television New Zealand
• ASB Classic: Television New Zealand

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