''The Crowd Goes Wild'' is a sports entertainment show broadcast on

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nationwide television channel Sky Open. The show premiered on Monday 26 June 2006. Created by former ''

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'' host and veteran journalist

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(who had served as executive producer and occasional presenter), ''The Crowd Goes Wild'' is presented by Andrew Mulligan (also one of the home team commentators for

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), Storm Purvis, Taylor Curtis,

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and Brook Ruscoe with producer Ra Pomare. The programme covers the sporting events of the moment in a lighthearted format and is broadcast live from the studios of Sky Television, combined with pre-recorded field items and clips. It airs Monday and Thursday nights across Sky Open and Sky Sport; prior to that, it aired five nights a week, Monday to Friday, at 7pm with Andrew Mulligan and Mark Richardson as co-presenters. In late 2010 the show was moved from its live 7pm timeslot to 10:30pm, with the show being recorded at 6:30pm (and played at that time on Sky Sport 1). This move was unpopular, criticised by at least one commentator, and ultimately reversed. In early 2011 the show was broadcast live at 6:30pm but moved back to its original 7pm timeslot in 2013. Since 2021, the show only airs twice a week (Monday and Thursday). From 2023, the team stopped wearing a full brown suit as a uniform. Field reporters include James McOnie, former All Black

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, Rugby Union player Taylor Curtis, Rugby League star

, Winter Olympic athlete

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, and former

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Storm Purvis .

Presenters, reporters and producers

*Andrew Mulligan – original presenter * Storm Purvis – presenter and reporter *Taylor Curtis – presenter and reporter *

– presenter and reporter *Brook Ruscoe – presenter and reporter *

– reporter *Tim Provise – reporter *

– reporter *James McOnie – creative producer ('producer of big ideas'), reporter and occasional presenter *Ra Pomare – producer *Matt Quin – executive producer

Former staff

*Chris Key – reporter and occasional presenter *Cat Tuivaiti – reporter and occasional presenter *James Somerset – reporter – Feb 2008 to Nov 2013 * Mark Richardson – original presenter – June 2006 to Dec 2016 *

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– reporter – Dec 2009 to Jan 2018 *Meghan Mutrie – reporter – Jun 2011 to Nov 2013 *Huw Beynon – producer, reporter and occasional presenterHuw Beynon
LinkedIn *Makere Gibbons – reporter *Ross McNaughton – producer *Ric Salizzo – series creator and executive producer

References

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