Fox Sports Australia Pty Limited (formerly Premier Media Group Pty Limited) is the division of Foxtel that owns and operates the Fox Sports television networks and digital properties in Australia. The group operates nine Fox Sports Channels as well as Fox Sports News, Fox Cricket, Fox League, Fox Footy, Watch AFL and Watch NRL. Fox Sports channels are available via Foxtel or Kayo. The group's main competitors are beIN Sports,

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, Optus Sport and Stan Sports. Unlike Fox Sports (United States) the group is not owned directly by the Fox Corporation. However

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which holds a 65% stake in Foxtel is Fox Corporation's sister company.

History

Early years

Launch

Fox Sports started life as the Premier Sports Network (later just Premier Sports) as the only fully operational local channel at the launch of Australia's first pay-television service,

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. Premier Sports' backers included American company Prime International, which later became part of

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. The service was launched at 16:00 on 26 January 1995 in Sydney, and made a name for itself, securing the rights to Australia's

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tour of the West Indies. Previously Australian cricket tours had been covered on the

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on free-to-air, and Nine tried to stop the broadcast under Australia's anti-siphoning rules, which state that certain popular sporting events cannot be screened exclusively on pay television. PSN signed a deal with

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to share the broadcast rights.

Foxtel launch

When Foxtel launched its cable service later that year, PSN was included as part of the package. Between 1995 and 2010, Fox Sports aired National Basketball League (NBL) games. On 1 March 1996, PSN was relaunched as Fox Sports Australia, to coincide with the new Super 12

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competition and the proposed launch of the

Super League The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of ...

. In 1997 a secondary channel was launched on Foxtel to carry broadcasts of the new

competition. Fox Sports and its chief competitor,

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shared the rights to NRL broadcasts as a result of the legal settlement in the Super League war. The channel on Foxtel was later relaunched as ''Fox Sports Two'', at first broadcasting from Friday through Monday each week, and later expanding to a full 24-hour, 7-day service in 2002.

2000s

Optus launch

When

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dropped the C7 Sport service in March 2002, they started carrying the Fox Sports channels. These were referred to by Optus as "Optus Sports 1" and "Optus Sports 2" in Optus promotional material; on-air programming referred to the channels as simply "Sports One" and "Sports Two", although programming such as the nightly ''Fox Sports News'' bulletins retained the Fox name. Optus dropped the "Optus Sports" name in October 2002. Fox Sports Two was generally used to cover bigger events that require large amounts of air time, such as the

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, Grand Slam tennis tournaments, and the 2004 European Football Championship. It now specialises as a 24/7, dedicated

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channel, Fox League. During the

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, Fox Sports carried an additional eight channels dedicated to Games events. These were available to customers at an additional charge. Fox Sports was the exclusive broadcaster of the

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from its first season in 2005 until 2020. In 2006, an A$120 million deal between the

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and Fox Sports was reached after the end of the first season. Under the deal, Fox Sports had exclusive rights from 2007 to all Socceroos home internationals, all A-League and

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fixtures,

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qualifiers through the

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, and all

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matches. The deal to cover the

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live and exclusive reaped big rewards for Fox Sports, its ratings were very strong in the 2006-07 season and the 2007 A-league grand final became at the time, Fox Sports' highest ever rating event. Ratings for football have generally been very good. The Socceroos first game of the

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, attracted 345,000 viewers, while their Quarter final drew an average of 419,000 - at the time, an all-time record for Australian Pay TV. This record was broken on 1 April 2009, when the Socceroos defeated

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to put them very close to qualification for the

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. This match was watched by an average of 431,000 people. In 2007, Fox Sports reached a deal to broadcast 4 games live and exclusive from the AFL each week. This includes the exclusive only Sunday twilight match. In addition they will broadcast Friday night games live into New South Wales and Queensland via channel 518 at no extra charge - normally used for pay-per-view service Main Event. When channel 518 a is used in this way it is promoted as Fox Sports Plus on-air. The channel is being used increasingly to show live events when Fox Sports has a clash involving its main 3 channels. On Saturday 17 March 2007, for example, Fox Sports broadcast a match from the

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(Ireland v Pakistan) live on 518, as it was committed to football, rugby union and another cricket match on its main 3 channels.

2010s

In 2010 Fox Sports coverage of

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games held 73 out of the top 100 programs of any type aired on Foxtel. In February 2012, the Premier Media Group changed its name to Fox Sports Pty Limited. In February 2012, Premier Media Group changed its name to Fox Sports, with CEO Patrick Delany explaining "The change from Premier Media to Fox Sports provides a stronger reflection of the core business of the company in its name, which is, and will continue to be, sport." On 2 November 2012, News Corp took control of

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after a $2 billion merger was approved by the

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, Federal Court and Consolidated Media Holding shareholders, making News Corp 100% owner of Fox Sports Pty Ltd. In April 2018

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moved the ownership of the company to one of its subsidiaries Foxtel a joint venture with

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. On 5 March 2013, Fox Sports unveiled its new headquarters at

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in Sydney. It was announced that the main studio would be named the Clive Churchill Studio after rugby league immortal Clive Churchill, as the studio will house NRL coverage. Technical innovations were the main highlight, with CEO Patrick Delany unveiling the FoxKopter, the FoxMobile Segway, Ref Cam and Cornerpost Cam. Fox Sports also launched a new corporate logo in line with its global affiliate broadcasters. On 3 September 2014, Fox Sports announced that

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and Fuel TV would be rebranded as Fox Sports 4 and Fox Sports 5 on 3 November 2014, of which both will be available in HD. In addition, it was announced that FOX Sports News would launch a HD feed on the same day, taking FOX Sports' suite to 7 channels, all available in HD. On 23 February 2017, Fox Sports More+, a new channel for live, pop-up events was launched.

Fox Sports News

Channels

* Fox Sports News: Channel 500. On 3 November 2014, Fox Sports News launched a HD simulcast. In addition, it moved from channel 513 to channel 500. * Fox Cricket: Channel 501. Branded as Fox Sports 1 prior to 23 February 2017, then branded as Fox Sports 501 from 23 February 2017 to 17 September 2018. * Fox League: Channel 502. Branded as Fox Sports 2 prior to 23 February 2017, then branded as Fox Sports 502 from 23 February 2017 to 27 February 2017. *Fox Sports 503: Channel 503. Branded as Fox Sports 3 prior to 23 February 2017. * Fox Footy: Channel 504. Branded as Fox Sports 504 prior to 17 February 2012. *Fox Sports 505: Channel 505. Branded as Fox Sports 4 prior to 23 February 2017. *Fox Sports 506: Channel 506. Branded as Fox Sports 5 prior to 23 February 2017. *Fox Sports More+: Channel 507. Although broadcast 24/7, the channel only acts as a pop-up channel with only occasional programming. *Fox Sports 508: Channel 508. On 21 February 2022, the Fox Sports Ultra HD channel 508 was removed to allow for an increased offering of Ultra HD Sports content from 11 March 2022 with the commencement of the NRL and AFL seasons. *Fox Sports UHD 1: Channel 591. *Fox Sports UHD 2: Channel 592. *Fox Sports UHD 3: Channel 593. *Fox Sports UHD 4: Channel 594.

Former channels

*Fox Sports 501: Channel 501. Also available in HD. Replaced by ''Fox Cricket''. *Fox Sports 502: Channel 502. Also available in HD. Replaced by ''Fox League''. *Fox Sports 504: Channel 504. Also available in HD. Replaced by ''Fox Footy''. *Fox Sports Plus: Launched on 6 September 2012, the channel showed what live and upcoming sports were available via ''Viewer's Choice'' on Fox Sports 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The channel ceased broadcasting on 9 February 2017, and was replaced on 23 February 2017 by ''Fox Sports More+''. * Fuel TV (replaced by Fox Sports 505) * Main Event: The Main Event channel was used as an "overflow" channel when multiple live sporting events needed to be broadcast. This included Friday Night AFL in

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and

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and Saturday Nights in New South Wales (excluding the

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market) and Canberra. It was also used nationwide for a Socceroos game in June 2007. On many occasions the Main Event channel was used when the

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had multiple games on the one night, although usage in this capacity is rare now that the "Viewer's Choice" system of showing multiple matches on one channel through multi-casting (pressing the "Red Button" on a Foxtel/Austar remote control). Unlike the AFL, the NRL was never broadcast into Southern Australia through Fox Sports Plus on Friday nights, leaving its Southern Australian fans having to wait until at least after midnight for a replay of the match on local free-to-air channels up until 2012. *

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(replaced by Fox Sports 506) *Footy Play powered by Fox Sports (available on Xbox 360, Telstra T-Box, and Foxtel on Internet TV). *Sports Play powered by Fox Sports (available on Xbox 360, Telstra T-Box, and Foxtel on Internet TV until 2013, when Fox Sports 1-3 launched on these services.) *Fox Sports Ultra HD: Channel 508 in 4K Ultra HD. Channel ended on 10 March 2022 as Foxtel replaced it with "a brand-new Ultra HD sport destination" for when 4K events are broadcasting at the same time.

Programming

Current programming

* '' The Back Page'' *

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* Fight Call Out (2017–present) * Fox Fans League *

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* '' The Golf Show'' * ''Hammer Time'' * Inside Rugby * Inside Supercars * Supercars Trackside * Kick Off * Matchday Saturday * '' Monday Night with Matty Johns'' (2013–present) * '' NRL 360'' (2013–present) * '' Shoot Out'' * '' Supercars Life'' * UFC Fight Weekhttp://www.foxtel.com.au/got/whats-on/foxtel-insider/fox-sports/ufc-fight-week.html

Former programming

* '' Bill & Boz'' (2017–2019) * Inside Cricket * '' The Crew'' (2013–2015) * ''On the Couch with Sterlo'' (2013–2017) * '' Santo, Sam and Ed's Total Football'' (2013–2015)

Sports/competitions televised by Fox Sports

Australian rules football

* Australian Football League Premiership Season (Broadcasts three matches live during most weekends of the regular season whenever sister channel Fox Footy, is screening another LIVE match at the same time. Fox Sports occasionally screens other programming such as magazine and panel shows that are produced and broadcast by Fox Footy.

Basketball

* FIBA World Cup * EuroLeague * National Basketball League (All games live on ESPN, including semi-finals and Grand Final) (Shared with 10 Peach) *

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(Shared with ABC)

Combat sports

* Cage Fighting Championship * Evolution *

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(2017–present) * Fox Sports Friday Night Fights * Hammer Time * Knees of Fury * Legend MMA * Maximus Academy * UFC Fight Week * The Ultimate Fighter

Cricket

* Australian national cricket team International Test Cricket (Shared with

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) * Australian national cricket team One-day Internationals * Australian national cricket team Twenty20 Internationals * Australian national cricket team International Women's Test Cricket (Simulcast of

coverage) * Australian national cricket team Women's One-day Internationals (Simulcast of

coverage) * Australian national cricket team

Women's Twenty20 International Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 International is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members. The first Twenty ...

s (Simulcast of

coverage) * Australian domestic First-class

Sheffield Shield The Sheffield Shield (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Marsh Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams from the six states of Australia. Sheffield Sh ...

final * Australian domestic

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JLT One-Day Cup * Australian domestic

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have ...

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all 61 games (43 Shared with

) * Australian domestic

Women's Twenty20 Women's Twenty20 is the use of the Twenty20 match format in women's cricket. In a Twenty20 match, the two teams bat for a single innings each, of a maximum of 20 overs. The wider rules and playing conditions are usually the same for both the ...

Women's Big Bash League The Women's Big Bash League (known as the WBBL and, for sponsorship reasons, the Weber WBBL) is the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition. The WBBL replaced the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup, which ran from the 2007–08 ...

(Simulcast of

coverage) * Home series of the

England cricket team The England cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (the MCC) since 1903. Eng ...

* Home series of the

West Indies cricket team The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on t ...

* Home series of the

New Zealand cricket team The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket. Named the Black Caps, they played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. From 193 ...

* Home series of the

South African cricket team The South Africa national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa (CSA). South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council ( ...

* Home series of the Pakistan cricket team * Home series of the Sri Lankan cricket team * Home series of the Indian cricket team *

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* Caribbean Premier League * Hong Kong T20 Blitz

Darts

* PDC World Darts Championship * PDC World Cup of Darts * Premier League Darts

Field hockey

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* Women's FIH Pro League * Oceania Cup * Hockey India League

Golf

* American PGA Tour (All rounds) * European PGA Tour *

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Women's major golf championships Women's golf has a set of major championships which parallels that in men's golf, with the women's system newer and less stable than the men's. As of 2013, five tournaments are designated as majors in women's golf by the LPGA Tour. LPGA majors ...

Asian Tour The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. Official money events on the tour count for ...

(highlights) * US Open * The Masters Tournament *

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Ice hockey

* Australian Ice Hockey League (Match of the round and highlights)

Motorsport

Formula racing

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Open wheel

* FIA Formula 2 Championship * FIA Formula 3 Championship *

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* Toyota Racing Series

Stock Cars

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NASCAR Xfinity Series The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a support race on the day prior to ...

* NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

Touring Cars

* Supercars Championship (shared with Seven Network) *

World Touring Car Cup The FIA World Touring Car Cup (abbreviated to WTCR, referring to the use of TCR regulations) was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It h ...

British Touring Car Championship The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as ...

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* Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships * Summernats

Sportscars

* Australian GT Championship * Bathurst 12 Hour *

Michelin Pilot Challenge The Michelin Pilot Challenge is a grand touring and touring car racing series run by the International Motor Sports Association. Originating from the Canadian Motorola Cup, the series was taken over by Grand-Am in 2001 to become the Grand-Am Cup ...

* Dubai 24 Hour * FIA European Truck Racing Championship * 24 Hours Nürburgring * Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships *

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Drag racing

* ANDRA Pro Series

Bikes

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(shared with Network Ten) * Superbike World Championship (shared with SBS) * British Superbike Championship * Australian Superbike Championship

Rally

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA. There are separate championships ...

(shared with

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) * Australian Rally Championship (shared with

) * British Rally Championship * European Rally Championship * European Rallycross Championship

Speedway

* FIM Speedway Grand Prix * FIM Speedway World Cup * British Elite Speedway *

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Australian Sprintcar Championship The Australian Sprintcar Championship is a dirt track racing championship held each year to determine the Australian national champion for winged sprint car racing. The single championship meeting runs in either late January or early February and ...

* Chequered Flag * FIM Ice Speedway World Championship * Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic * World of Speedway

Motocross

* AMA Motocross Championship *

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* British Motocross Championship * FIM Enduro World Championship *

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* FIM MX of Nations * FIM Supermoto * MXTV

Rugby league

(Every Game Live, 5 games Live and Exclusive and 3 game simulcast Live with Nine in a full round). Fox Sports occasionally screens other programming such as new magazine and panel shows that are produced and broadcast by Fox League. * Holden Cup (2008–2017) *

New South Wales Cup The NSW Cup, currently known as the Knock-On Effect NSW Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a rugby league competition for clubs in New South Wales. The competition has a history dating back to the NSWRFL's origins in 1908, starting off as a reserv ...

Rugby Football League The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England, and until 1995 for the whole British Isles. The name Rugby Football League previously also referred to the main league competition run by the organisa ...

Rugby union

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Building on various Southern Hem ...

(All games live and exclusive) (1995–2020) * Super W (All games live and exclusive) (2018–2020) * The Rugby Championship (shared with

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) (1995–2020) * Wallabies internationals (shared with

) (1995–2020) * Global Rapid Rugby (shared with

SBS Sport ''SBS Sport'' is the name given to the Special Broadcasting Service's sport's programming broadcast on SBS Television and SBS Radio. Television & Streaming SBS currently holds the broadcast rights to a range of sports, which are broadcast on ...

) * National Rugby Championship *

Currie Cup The Currie Cup is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring (June to October), featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces. Although it is the premier ...

* ITM Cup

Soccer

* Hyundai A-League (All games live, Saturday night matches shared with ABC TV) (2004–2021) * Hyundai A-League Finals Series (All games live, shared with ABC TV) (2004–2021) * Asian Champions League (All games involving Australian teams live, plus some others) (2021) *

AFC Asian Cup The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...

(All Games, 28 games (include the Socceroos team) exclusively live) (2021) * Socceroos internationals (All games include AFC Asian cup and exclude

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the ' (FIFA), the ...

finals games, shared with SBS Viceland (two matches only) and ABC TV for the World Cup qualification second round) (2021) * Indian Super League (2021) * Other separate International Football matches *

Westfield W-League A-League Women (known as the Liberty A-League for sponsorship reasons), formerly the W-League, is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia. The W-League was established in 2008 by Football Australia (then known as Football Federatio ...

(One live match per week, plus both semi-finals and the grand final live; shared with ABC TV) (2015–2021)

Surfing

World Surf League The World Surf League (WSL) is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world's best talent in a variety of progressive formats. The World Surf League was originally known as the International Professional ...

(All events live)

Ten-pin bowling

* Rollin' Thunder * Weber Cup

Tennis

* World Tennis Challenge *

Moorilla Hobart International The Hobart International is a women's professional tennis tournament held at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia. Held since 1994, it forms a part of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour and is classed as an Inter ...

ATP 250 Series The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam to ...

; Open Sud de France, Quito Open, Memphis Open, Geneva Open) *

WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ...

(replays) * Hawaii Open

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