Seven Sport is the brand and production department under which all sporting events on the Seven Network are broadcast.
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19 Facts About Seven Sport
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Seven Sport was replaced by long-time Seven Melbourne managing director Lewis Martin.
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In 1977 Seven Sport paid the VFL $500,000 to broadcast the Grand Final and a further $500,000 to broadcast the Grand Final Replay live with the drawn match watch by 1.
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On 5 January 2006, Seven Sport regained the rights to the AFL in the following broadcast deal, covering the period between 2007 and 2011 inclusive, in a joint contract with Ten and Foxtel.
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Seven Sport televised the entire finals series, with Foxtel simulcasting all finals except for the Grand Final, which was televised live and exclusively by Seven Sport.
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In 2015, Seven Sport commenced broadcasting the WAFL and VFL showing one match a week and all finals from both competitions that did not clash with AFL games in each market, this followed the previous year where SANFL were being broadcast on under the same agreement.
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Under a revised deal agreement, Channel Seven will show up to five matches per week live on their networks, with Fox Sports broadcasting each and every game on either a Fox Footy or Fox Sports 503.
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On June 11 the AFL and the Seven Sport Network extended its current agreement until 2022 for an extra two until the end of 2024 with the deal virtually the same as the original one signed prior to 2017.
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Seven Sport had exclusive Australian free-to-air, pay television, online and mobile telephony broadcast rights to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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From 2016, Seven Sport became the home of the Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games and the Summer Paralympic Games.
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In October 2020, the Seven Sport Network announced it would be the home of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Seven Sport screened the 2002 Commonwealth Games from Manchester and were the official broadcaster of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on home soil on the Gold Coast in April 2018.
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From 1963 to 1997, Seven was the home of motor sport in Australia as they broadcast the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Bathurst 1000.
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Seven Sport were the first broadcasters to use race cam in the 1979 Bathurst 1000, which allowed them to talk to the drivers mid-race.
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In 1997, Seven Sport lost the rights to the ATCC to Network Ten, but still broadcast the Australian Super Touring Championship until the series' demise in 2001.
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In 2020, Seven Sport regained the TV rights to the Supercars Championship, sharing the rights with Foxtel in a deal worth $200 million for 5 years.
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The new deal has Seven Sport show seven rounds of the Supercars Championship live and showing highlights of the rounds it is not able to televise.
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Seven Sport took issue with the ODIs being moved to the start of the series rather than the test matches as they would be exclusive to Fox Cricket, and the final test would overlap the end of the holiday season, reducing potential viewership.
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In 2016, the Seven Sport Network won the broadcasting rights deal to be the main broadcaster of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup in Australia, beating the other regular rugby league broadcasting channels of Fox League and the Nine Network to secure the deal.
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