AFL Toyota Premiership 2008

In 2008 Network Ten enters its seventh consecutive year as a principal broadcast partner of the AFL.  Ten continues to set new standards in AFL broadcasting and in 2008 the NAB Cup Grand Final as well as all Home and Away matches, Ten's Finals coverage and the Brownlow Medal will be broadcast in High Definition with 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound. Ten's commentary team is unmatched and its support programming including 'Before the Game', 'The 5th Quarter' and 'Sports Tonight' perfectly augment the match coverage.  IN 2008, Network Ten is committed to Footy. 

That one day in September - the AFL Grand Final – is back on Seven in 2008, along with extensive coverage of the AFL finals series.

Friday Night Football on Seven remains the showcase match of every round in the AFL Premiership season, plus several blockbuster Sunday matches.

And Brownlow medallist Nathan Buckley joins the commentary team with Bruce McAvaney, Dennis Cometti, Tim Watson, David Schwarz and Rick Olarenshaw.

FOXTEL's AFL coverage. We broadcast more footy and more live fooy than anyone else, providing our customers with a minimum of four games live and uninterrupted every round, including the Sunday twilight match. And if that isn't enough, we show every game of every week uninterrupted on FOX SPORTS as well as great magazine shows, so you will never miss a moment of the action. Footy's got a national home ground on FOXTEL.

Triple M Melbourne’s number 1 rated, multi award winning football commentary team returns in 2008. Broadcasting in clear, crisp FM stereo sound, only Triple M’s coverage truly captures the thrills and dramas on and off the field of play. It is football broadcast in the 21st Century by the men who have played it and coached it in the 21st Century and continue to shape the very game we love. Triple M Football’s stellar cast of match callers includes the highly rated James Brayshaw, Brian Taylor, Wayne Schwass and Mike McLean. Expert comments are provided by the most respected and revered champions of the AFL - Garry Lyon, Jason Dunstall, Danny Frawley, Aaron Hamill, Nathan Thompson and Nathan Brown. From the boundary at ground level, Australia’s leading sports medico, Dr Peter Larkins, provides his on-the-spot assessments for all player injuries. Triple M’s listeners are also kept fully informed of breaking stories by renowned footy journalists Damian Barrett and Mark Stevens. And finally, with the game now leaning heavily on statistics, only the best can deliver this in an informative, yet entertaining way - two-day, two-night premiership stats whiz, Ash “The Chu-man” Chua!

In Adelaide, all Crows and Port games are broadcast by Triple M along with the other premium games of each round to satisfy a football crazy town. Triple M Adelaide’s coverage has been further enhanced in ‘08 with the recruitment of champions Mark Ricciuto, Darryl Wakelin, Rhett Biglands and TV Sports journo & breakfast radio personality, Kym Dillon. They join our long established SA line up of Mark Bickley, Brenton Yates, Sean Tasker and Rhett Biglands.

Triple M Sydney & Triple M Brisbane footy fans also have their own dedicated coverage with every Swans match heard in Sydney and every Lions match broadcast in Brisbane

In 2008, Triple M Rocks Football!

Melbourne’s Home of Sport 1116 SEN, Australia’s only 24/7 all sports radio station, will cover more AFL matches this season than any other broadcaster in the business. Indeed, Melbourne’s renowned sports mad public will enjoy unrivalled access to the biggest games and the biggest names, and will be provided with the greatest opportunity to have their say. Our calling team - headed by Anthony Hudson, AFL Hall of Fame inductee Kevin Bartlett and Matt Granland - will be complemented by a who’s who of special comments men, including Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton, former Western Bulldogs’ star Luke Darcy, self titled “King of Geelong” Billy Brownless, David Schwarz, Grant Thomas, Liam Pickering and Andrew Jarman.

On Saturday’s, 1116 SEN’S pre-match coverage will provide footy fanatics with the perfect lead in to the match of the day. Hudson will call the shots alongside Brereton, former St. Kilda coach Grant Thomas and gun footy journo Mark Robinson.

On Sunday’s, 1116 SEN will provide the only commercial coverage of the 1pm and twilight matches. And of course when other stations are pulling the plug on their coverage, we’ll just be warming up. In 2007, 1116 SEN is Melbourne’s new Home of Footy.

3AW Football enters its 56^th year of broadcasting Australia’s greatest game with its award winning team

The callers Rex Hunt, Tony Leonard and Shane Healy have been joined by the voice of Channel 7 football and TV’s most popular caller Denis Cometti.

After the sudden death of our outstanding host and commentator Clinton Grybas the team is committed to maintaining the high standard of broadcasting which Clinton displayed during his seven years with the station.

Special commentators Premiership coach and player Robert Walls, Norm Smith medallist and premiership captain Tony Shaw and duel premiership player David King have been joined this year by our new recruits Collingwood’s captain for the past nine seasons and Brownlow medallist Nathan Buckley and former Melbourne coach Neale Daniher

Premiership player Graeme Bond has all the stats and Coleman medallist Scott Cummings will be on the boundary.

The award winning pregame shows will feature Melbourne’s leading football journalists Caroline Wilson, Mike Sheahan and Rohan Connolly along with our special commentators who will address all the major issues and put the big names in football under the microscope each weekend

ABC Local Radio presents 100% Pure Footy - live and commercial free every weekend with the most respected callers, experts and opinion makers in AFL football. ABC Local Radio Grandstand will broadcast 5 AFL matches in full every weekend from Friday night to 2 matches every Saturday and two full games on Sunday afternoon. Matches will also be broadcast on Radio Australia through the Pacific and parts of Asia. The Grandstand AFL coverage is the only coverage that reaches all parts of Australia whether you are in a capital city or in the remotest corner of the continent.

FIVEaa is Adelaide’s Number 1 Footy Station and has been calling AFL games since the Crows inception in 1991. With a commentary team that includes KG & Cornesy, Chris Dittmar, David Wildy, Stephen Rowe, Chris McDermott and Josh Francou we're live and we're local.  

FIVEaa broadcasts EVERY Crows and Power game live and passionate from wherever they play.

6PR

6PR provides Perth’s most comprehensive coverage of AFL Football, broadcasting up to six live games every weekend, including every Eagles and Dockers game. With a line-up including Eagles legends Karl Langdon, Rob Wiley and Glen Jakovich, Brownlow medallist Brad Hardie plus respected commentators Graham Dawson and Mark Readings, 6PR delivers the best of what our great Australian game has to offer.

K-Rock provides the best football coverage for Geelong, Werribee and Victoria's Surfcoast. With Anthony Mithen heading up the call team along with Ian Robertson, Michael Christian , Darren Berry and Ian Cohen as well as our special comments team featuring Andrew Bews, Michael Mansfield, Michael Turner, John Barnes and a host of special guests. K-Rock bring's you all the weekend's footy action, with an emphasis on Geelong games.