Toyota World Sport

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Toyota World Sport
GenreSports
Presented by Les Murray (weekdays)
Liz Deep-Jones (weekends)
Country of origin Australia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network SBS
Release1990 (1990) 
December 2006 (2006-12)

Toyota World Sport was an Australian television sport news program. Airing on SBS at 7pm local time, the long-running show was axed in December 2006.

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The show aired at 7pm following SBS' 6.30 news (and repeated the following day at 4pm), and was hosted by Les Murray on weekdays, and Liz Deep-Jones on weekends.

Presenters

Stephanie Brantz was originally a weekend presenter of the show, but joined Les Murray as a co-host during 2006, before she defected to the Nine Network in August of that year. Other hosts during this period included Mike Tomalaris and Simon Hill.

Robert Grasso, Kyle Patterson, Andrew Orsatti, Janice Petersen, Mieke Buchanan, John Baldock, Farren Hotham and Emma Simkin were among the show's award-winning team of journalists. Craig Norenbergs, Mike Tomalaris and Bridget Tilley also worked as producers during its long run.

Cancellation

Despite its successful ratings with the FIFA World Cup and the Tour de France in 2006, the show was axed in favour of an extended one-hour news program that incorporates sport news, because SBS management was worried about the drop in viewers after the 6.30pm news. [1]

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