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Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight Opener
Format Sports Program
Starring Brad McEwan (Monday - Thursdays)
Rob Canning (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays)
Neil Cordy (fill-in)
Adam Hawse (Summer fill-in)
Victoria Murphy (Summer fill-in)
Country of origin  Australia
Production
Running time 30 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel Channel Ten (1993 - Present)
ONE (2009 - Present)
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original run 1993 – present
External links
Official website
This article is about a sports show in Australia. For the CNN show (1980-2001) in the United States, see Sports Tonight (CNN).

Sports Tonight is a popular sports information program shown on Network Ten in Australia. The program is broadcast on Monday-Thursday at 9.30pm AEDT (on ONE) and at 10.30pm (combined with Ten Late News), Fridays at 12.00am, Saturdays at 5.30pm, and a one-hour edition on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT (on ONE, though this sometimes varies due to live sports coverage) . The program provides up-to-date sports scores and team and player information for all codes of football and different sports across Australia.

The show has been running since 1993. From 1993 until 2005, the show ran for half an hour on each weeknight after Ten Late News. The two shows merged in 2006, however there was some criticism by viewers that Sports Tonight was not long enough, and that it should have remained the same.

The show is currently branded as Toyota Sports Tonight. In late 2006, the show was sponsored by Toyota and its upcoming Toyota Aurion, although only minor modifications were done to the on-air graphics to match those of the Aurion colours. In early 2007, the graphics were updated with a heavily sponsored on-air look.

Sports Tonight is aired on Fridays as a separate program.

Since March 2009, a weeknightly 9.30pm edition (started out at 7pm) of Sports Tonight airs on ONE with a weekend wrap edition on Sundays. Also on weeknights, there is a 15 minutes Sports Tonight 'highlights show' that airs at around midnight.

Contents

[edit] Hosts

[edit] Previous hosts

Previous hosts have included:

[edit] Reporters

Sports Tonight has many around the ground reporters across Australia. Some reporters include:

  • Ian Cohen: AFL and Australian Open (tennis) reporter.
  • Andrew Brown: All sports reporter and horse racing reporter
  • Adam Hawse: NRL reporter
  • Adam Thompson: All sports reporter
  • Paul Cochrane: All sports reporter - mainly cricket
  • Roger Oldridge: All sports reporter
  • Victoria Murphy: NRL reporter
  • Kelli Underwood: AFL and all sports reporter
  • Leanne West: NRL reporter

[edit] Awards

Sports Tonight has been nominated for the Most Popular Sports Program for the Logies a total of 11 times. The show was nominated in 1997 - 98, 2000, 2002 - 09.

[edit] References

[edit] External links


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