Ten Sport

Last updated

Ten Sport
Ten Sport logo 2013.png
Network Network Ten
Country of origin Australia
Major broadcasting contracts Formula One
MotoGP
Supercars Championship
Wallabies Internationals
A-League
Socceroos
Melbourne Cup
Official website tenplay.com.au/sport

Ten Sport (stylised as TEN Sport, known as Ten's World of Sport from 1992 until 1996) is the brand that all sporting events broadcast on Network Ten, an Australian free-to-air commercial television network.

Network Ten Australian television network

Network 10 is an Australian commercial television network. One of five national free-to-air networks, 10's owned-and-operated stations can be found in the state capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to regional areas of the country. The network is owned by Ten Network Holdings, a subsidiary of CBS Studios International.

Contents

All sport events were broadcast under the One HD banner from 2009 until it ceased being a sole sports channel in early 2011.

History

Australian rules football

In 2002, Ten combined with the Nine Network to acquire free-to-air broadcast rights for the Australian Football League, the elite Australian rules football competition, displacing the Seven Network which had held the rights for more than 40 years. Ten broadcast Saturday afternoon and Saturday night games and had exclusive rights for all finals games. Along with the Seven Network, Ten placed a successful $780 million bid to jointly broadcast the game from 2007 to 2011. [1] Under this deal, Ten continued to broadcast the Saturday component of the competition. However, unlike the previous deal, Ten did not hold the exclusive rights to the finals series. Instead, the networks shared the broadcasting of the finals series and alternated the broadcast of the grand final. In the years when Ten did not televise the Grand Final (2008 and 2010), it telecast the Brownlow Medal presentation. Ten ended AFL broadcasting at the conclusion of the 2011 season. Ten Sport won a Logie Award for "Most Popular Sport Program" at the 2012 TV Week Logie Awards for its telecast of the 2011 AFL Grand Final.

Australian Football League Australian rules football competition

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football in Australia. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.

Brownlow Medal award for fairest and best player in the Australian Football League

The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal, is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game. It is the most prestigious award for individual players in the AFL. It is also widely acknowledged as the highest individual honour in the sport of Australian rules football.

Basketball

In 1992, Network Ten also used to air the National Basketball League (NBL) during the middle of the basketball boom in Australia in the mid-90s, but after delegating games to extremely late night time slots the network eventually ended its broadcasting. In March 2010 however, it was announced that Network Ten and digital channel One would show NBL games for the next 5 years. Starting with 2 games per week, and raising to 5 per week in the 2014/15 season. The network also screened Boomers and Opals games.

National Basketball League (Australia) main basketball league of Australia and New Zealand

The National Basketball League (NBL) is the pre-eminent professional men's basketball league in Australia and New Zealand. The league was founded in 1979 and is currently contested by eight teams; seven from Australia and one from New Zealand.

Cricket

In 2013, Ten paid $100 million for exclusive rights to broadcast the Big Bash League from 2013 to 2018, marking the channel's first foray in elite domestic cricket coverage. [2] Ten previously held the broadcast rights to the Indian Premier League.

Big Bash League Australian professional Twenty20 cricket league

The Big Bash League (BBL) is an Australian professional Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, and features eight city-based franchises instead of the six state teams which had participated previously. The competition has been sponsored by fast food chicken outlet KFC since its inception. It is one of the two T20 cricket, alongside the Indian Premier League, to feature amongst the Top 10 Most Attended Sport Leagues in the world.

Indian Premier League professional cricket league in India

The Indian Premier League (IPL), officially Vivo Indian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by teams representing 8 Indian cities and some states. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2008, and is regarded as the brainchild of Lalit Modi, the founder and former commissioner of the league. IPL has an exclusive window in ICC Future Tours Programme.

Horse racing

Network Ten broadcast the Melbourne Cup between 1978 and 2001.

Melbourne Cup horse race

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most well known annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November and is known locally as "the race that stops a nation".

Motorsport

Ten has been a long-standing broadcaster of motorsport events. It has produced the motoring show RPM to complement its coverage.

In 2003, Ten started broadcasting the Formula One World Championship after the Nine Network dropped the rights in 2002 after more than twenty years of coverage. Other series broadcast include the Supercars Championship and MotoGP.

Rugby league

Ten broadcast the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1983 until 1991. The network was experiencing severe financial problems in the early 1990s, and it was the New South Wales Rugby League that successfully applied to place the network in liquidation in 1991. [3]

Rugby union

Network Ten broadcast the 1995 and 2007 Rugby World Cups. [4] It has broadcast Wallabies test matches since 2013.

Olympic and Commonwealth Games

Ten broadcast both the summer and winter Olympics in 1984 and 1988. Network Ten acquired broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics for $20 million after all three major commercial networks pulled out of bidding on rights to both the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games due to cost concerns. The Nine Network had lost $22 million on its joint coverage of the 2012 Games with Foxtel, and the Seven Network's bid was rejected for being lower than what Nine/Foxtel had previously paid. [5] [6] [7]

Network Ten, in joint partnership with subscription television provider Foxtel, had broadcast rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [8] It also broadcast the 1994 and 2014 games.

Events

Ten Sport holds broadcast rights to the following events:

Current

SportEventBroadcast partner(s)DateNotes
Horse racing The Melbourne Cup Carnival Sky Racing 1978–2001, 2019–
Motor racing Formula One Fox Sports (2015–)2003–Live coverage of the Australian Grand Prix with the rest highlights on ONE. [9]
Motor racing MotoGP Fox Sports (1997–2009, 2015–), Speed (2014)1997–Live coverage of every race on One
Motor racing Supercars Championship Fox Sports (highlights, 1997–2006, live, 2015–)1997–2006, 2015–Live rights to Adelaide 500, Melbourne 400, Townsville 400, Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast 600 and Newcastle 500 events on Ten. Plus highlights for every other round on Ten or One. [10]
Motor racing SuperUtes Fox Sports (highlights, 2005–2006, live, 2015–)2005–2006, 2015–2 races live per round for Adelaide 500, Townsville 400, Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast 600 and Newcastle 500 with 1 hour highlight package for each round.
Rugby union Bledisloe Cup Fox Sports 1992–1995, 2013–Live coverage on Ten.
Rugby Union The Rugby Championship Fox Sports 2013–Live coverage on Ten.
Rugby union Super Rugby Fox Sports 2013–One Sunday morning full match replay on One, plus a Monday night highlights show on One.
Rugby union Wallabies Rugby Internationals Fox Sports 1992–1995, 2013–Live coverage on every match on Ten.
Soccer A-League Fox Sports 2017–Live coverage on every Saturday night matches, as well as all finals on One
Soccer Socceroos Fox Sports 2018-Live coverage on every match on One [11]

Past

SportEventBroadcast partner(s)DateReason/subsequent broadcasters
Summer Olympics Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988 1984, 1988Outbid: Seven Network
Winter Olympics Sarajevo 1984, Calgary 1988, Sochi 2014 1984, 1988, 2014Outbid: Seven Network
Air Racing Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2007–2010
American football National Football League Fox Sports, ESPN 2008–2014Dropped: 7mate, ESPN
American football Super Bowl ESPN 2009–2014Dropped: Seven Network, ESPN
Australian rules football Australian Football League Nine Network (2002–2006), Fox Footy Channel (2002–2006), Seven Network (2007–2011), Fox Sports (2007–2011)2002–2011Outbid: Seven Network, Fox Footy
Australian rules football International Rules Series 2006, 2011Dropped: Seven Network
Baseball Australian Baseball League ABC 1990s–1996
Baseball Major League Baseball Fox Sports, ESPN 2009–2013Dropped: ESPN
Basketball NCAA College Basketball ESPN 2009–2010Dropped: ESPN
Basketball FIBA Oceania Championship 2011
Basketball FIBA Oceania Championship for Women 2011
Basketball National Basketball Association ESPN (1996–1999, 2008–2011)1992–1999, 2008–2011Dropped: ESPN
Basketball National Basketball League Fox Sports (1995–1997)1992–1997, 2010–2015Dropped: Fox Sports
Basketball Women's National Basketball League ABC 1992–1990sDropped: Fox Sports
Beach Cricket Beach Cricket Tri-Nations series 2007–2009
Commonwealth Games Victoria 1994, Delhi 2010, Glasgow 2014 Foxtel (2010)1994, 2010, 2014Outbid: Seven Network
Cricket Big Bash League 2013–2018Outbid: Seven Network and Fox Sports [12]
Cricket Women's Big Bash League 2015–2018Outbid: Seven Network and Fox Sports [13]
Cricket Indian Premier League 2008–2010Dropped: Fox Sports
Cricket Champions League Twenty20 2009–2010, 2013
Cricket Sheffield Shield ABC 1976Dropped: Cricket Network and Fox Sports (final only)
Cycling Herald Sun Tour SBS 2009, 2011Dropped: SBS
Golf Australian Open Fox Sports 2009–2011Dropped: Seven Network
Golf Australian PGA Championship 2009–2013Dropped: Seven Network
Golf World Golf Championships 2009–2013Dropped: Fox Sports
Golf New Zealand Open 2008–2012Dropped: Fox Sports
Golf New Zealand PGA Championship 2008–2013
Golf Ryder Cup 2010–2012Dropped: Fox Sports
Golf U.S. Open Fox Sports 2007–2011Dropped: Fox Sports
Golf U.S. Masters 2007–2013Dropped: Nine Network
Motor racing Nations Cup Fox Sports (highlights)2000–2002Dropped: Seven Network
Motor racing Australian Rally Championship Speed (2011–2014), Fox Sports (2015)2011–2015Dropped: 7mate, Fox Sports
Motor racing NASCAR 2008–2014Dropped: Fox Sports
Motor racing Superbike World Championship 1997–2006Dropped: SBS, Speed
Motor racing World Rally Championship Speed (2011–2014), Fox Sports (Live, 2015–)2011–2015Dropped: 7mate, Fox Sports
Netball ANZ Championship Fox Sports (2015–2016)2009–2012, 2015–2016
Netball INF Netball World Cup Fox Sports 1999, 2011, 2015Dropped: Nine Network (2019)
Netball Constellation Cup Fox Sports (2015–2016)2008–2011, 2015–2016Dropped: Nine Network
Rugby League New South Wales Rugby League 1983–1991Dropped: Nine Network, Fox Sports
Rugby League Amco Cup 1974–1989
Rugby League Winfield Cup Nine Network, ABC 1983–1991
Rugby Union British and Irish Lions Tour Fox Sports 2013Dropped: Fox Sports
Rugby Union Rugby World Cup Fox Sports 1995, 2007Outbid: TBA
Rugby union Wallabies Spring Tour Fox Sports, beIN Sports 1992–1995, 2012–2016Dropped: SBS & beIN Sports
Rugby Union Super 10 1993–1995
Surfing Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Ironman Series 2010–2013Dropped: Nine Network
Swimming Australian Swimming Championships 2009–2015Dropped: Seven Network
Swimming Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 2010–2015Dropped: Seven Network
Tennis Queensland Open 1987–1992
Tennis Sydney Indoor 1973–1994
Tennis Hopman Cup 2011–2013Dropped: 7mate [14] [15]
Wrestling WWE, WWF Raw, WWF Superstars, WWF pay per views Fox Sports 1995–1999Dropped: Fox Sports (1998–2003), Fox8 (1999–present), 9Go! (2017-present)
Yachting Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 1980s–2004Dropped: Seven Network

Programs

Ten Sport has presented the following recurring programs:

Sport (event)ProgramYears
All Thursday Night Live 2009–2010
All The Thursday Night Sport Show 2014
All Back Page Live 1997-present
Soccer Just for Kicks 2017-present
Australian rules football Before the Game 2003–2013
Australian rules football One Week at a Time (AFL) 2009–2011
Australian rules football The Fifth Quarter 2004–2011
Australian rules football The Game Plan (AFL) 2011–2012
Australian rules football The Final Siren 2011
Australian rules football Simply Footy2002-2011 (Adelaide only)
Australian rules football Totally Footy2002
Australian rules football The Western Front 2002-2011 (Perth only)
Basketball Air Time1992-1997
Basketball Saturday & Sunday Basketball1990s
Basketball MVP 2010
Motorsport RPM 1997–2008, 2011, 2015-
Rugby league One Week at a Time (NRL) 2011
Rugby league The Game Plan (NRL) 2011–2013

Logo history

See also

Related Research Articles

Supercars Championship touring car racing category

The Supercars Championship is a touring car racing category based in Australia and run as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) regulations.

Fox Footy Channel

The Fox Footy Channel was a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football. It was owned by Foxtel and operates out of their Melbourne based studios. From 2002 - 2006 it was available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television, TransTV and Neighbourhood Cable until transmission ceased on 1 October 2006. The channel was revived as Fox Footy for the 2012 AFL season after a new broadcast agreement was reached between Fox Sports and the AFL.

Andrew Maher Australian sports journalist

Andrew "Andy" Maher is an Australian sports journalist and broadcaster for the Seven Network and Melbourne sport radio station 1116 SEN. He is best known for covering both Australian rules football and the Big Bash League for the Ten television network, as well as hosting AFL review program Before the Game.

BBC Sport sports division of the BBC

BBC Sport is a department of the BBC North division providing national sports coverage for BBC Television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday, Today at Wimbledon and previously Grandstand. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the BBC Sport Website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service.

Nines Wide World of Sports television series

Nine's Wide World of Sports is a long running sports anthology brand on Australian television, aired on the Nine Network. All major sports, events and series covered by the network are broadcast under this brand, the flagship sports being rugby league and Australian Open Tennis. Previous sporting rights include the Australian Football League, Australian Cricket Team home season, spring and autumn horse racing, swimming until 2008, and golf since 2018.

Matthew White (journalist) Australian journalist

Matt White is a long time Australian television executive, sports broadcaster, television presenter and journalist at Network Ten where he returned to in 2014. He is currently Network Ten's Head of Sport and host of the resurrected Sports Tonight sports news service and motorsports panel show RPM.

Stephen William Quartermain is an Australian television personality and journalist/presenter.

Mark Aiston is an Australian sports journalist and sports presenter.

Seven Sport is the brand and production department under which all sporting events on the Seven Network are broadcast. It broadcasts some of Australia's most prominent sporting events, such as Cricket, AFL and the Melbourne Cup.

Daryl Beattie Australian motorcycle racer

Daryl Beattie is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Gregory Charles Rust is an Australian motor racing presenter and commentator for the V8 Supercars championship. He has previously worked for Network Ten, the Nine Network and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) as a freelance commentator/reporter/presenter, mainly covering motor racing.

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

RPM is an Australian motorsports and automotive television program that airs on Network Ten. The show returned to Ten in 2015, after originally airing from 1997 to 2008 on the same network, as well as in 2011 on sister channel One. The show currently airs on Sunday afternoons, having held a variety of timeslots over the show's history.

Mark Larkham is a retired Australian racing driver, former racing team owner and television commentator.

Mark Howard is an Australian television presenter and journalist with Fox Sports after hosting, presenting and reporting at various events on Ten Sport for over a decade.

BT Sport is a group of sports television channels provided by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at the former International Broadcast Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. BT Sport is available on the BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media television platforms in the UK and Sky, Eir TV and Vodafone TV in the Republic of Ireland.

Supercars Challenge (event)

The Supercars Challenge was an annual non-championship motor racing event held for cars from the Supercars Championship, and formerly from V8 Supercars, the Shell Championship Series and the Australian Touring Car Championship. The event is held on the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Albert Park, Victoria, Australia as a support event to the Australian Grand Prix.

Shannons Legends of Motorsport was an Australian motor racing television series that aired on 7mate. First aired in 2014, each episode featured a particular topic from the history of Australian motor racing, with a focus on touring cars. The show included a mix of interviews, analysis and historical footage.

Inside Supercars was an Australian television series, based on the Supercars Championship, that aired on Fox Sports.

References

  1. ↑ "Seven and Ten win AFL rights". ABC Sport. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 7 February 2008.[ dead link ]
  2. ↑ New Big Bash League broadcaster Channel Ten thrilled with ratings for season opening derby heraldsun.com.au. Retrieved on 25 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Sacre, Howard (May 1991). "Network Ten in Liquidation - May 1991". YouTube (Video). Network Ten. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Ten gives HD sporting chance". The Australian. australianit.news.com.au. 7 December 2006. Retrieved 16 December 2006.
  5. ↑ "Olympic fury over rules for TV sport". The Australian. 7 April 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  6. ↑ "Seven withdraws from bidding for Olympics as price tag proves too great for TV networks". Fox Sports. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  7. ↑ MacKay, Duncan (12 May 2013). "Ten Network signs $20 million deal to broadcast Sochi 2014 in Australia, claim reports". Inside the Games. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  8. ↑ "TEN and Foxtel win 2010 Commonwealth Games". TV Tonight. 16 January 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2008.
  9. ↑ "Network Ten takes pole position in Formula 1" (PDF). Network Ten. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  10. ↑ V8 Supercars signs $241m media rightsdeal with FOX SPORTS, Foxtel and Ten Networkfrom 2015, Fox Sports Australia, 18 December 2013
  11. ↑ "A-League broadcast deal: Channel Ten, Fox Sports to take Australian football to more fans than ever". Fox Sports Australia. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  12. ↑ https://www.cricket.com.au/news/cricket-australia-broadcast-deal-media-channel-seven-fox-sports-tv-guide-how-watch-bbl-television/2018-04-13?spMailingID=19371346&spUserID=MjQyNjYxNDI2NDgxS0&spJobID=1240780038&spReportId=MTI0MDc4MDAzOAS2
  13. ↑ https://www.cricket.com.au/news/cricket-australia-broadcast-deal-media-channel-seven-fox-sports-tv-guide-how-watch-bbl-television/2018-04-13?spMailingID=19371346&spUserID=MjQyNjYxNDI2NDgxS0&spJobID=1240780038&spReportId=MTI0MDc4MDAzOAS2
  14. ↑ TEN parts ways with Hopman Cup, TV Tonight, 18 November 2013
  15. ↑ 7mate to serve up Hopman Cup action, The West Australian, 19 November 2013
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.