Radio Sport

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The current Radio Sport logo
The current Radio Sport logo
For the amateur radio competition, see Radiosport.

Radio Sport is a New Zealand sports radio station which broadcasts a variety of sports. It has live commentary rights to most cricket matches, rugby union games, some National Rugby League (NRL) games and New Zealand tennis tournaments. Its current On-Air slogan is 'The Ultimate Fan'.

Contents

[edit] Radio Sport News

Radio Sport's news is provided by its in house journalists and has bulletins every day from 6am, with the final bulletin at 11pm. During the weekday breakfast show, sports news is also on the half hour with a quick news headlines wrap at the end of the half hour bulletin.

The sports bulletin precedes the general news, on the hour, coming from Newstalk ZB, its sister station and one of the largest radio news operations in New Zealand.

Sports headlines are also presented at around :15 and :45 past the hour, between 6:00am and 3:00pm, and also from 4:00pm till 6:00pm.

The news team is led by Matt Brown who many in the industry consider to be one of the countrys finest journalists.

The Team consists of Andrew,Tom,Reuben and Rikki who work day and night to bring you the latest news every hour.

[edit] Sports with Regular Commentary

  • CRICKET

All Black Caps 'home' games, with most overseas games. New Zealand Domestic Cricket. Australian-based international cricket. (ie. Commonwealth Bank Series, home test series.

  • RUGBY

Super 14, Tri Nations, Rugby World Cup & any other All Blacks games. Air New Zealand Cup

  • NETBALL

ANZ Championship, Internationals involving Silver Ferns.

  • RUGBY LEAGUE

NRL, coverage of majority of games, Kiwis Tests

[edit] Weekday Programming

Sports talkback has been the main focus of the station, along with sports commentaries since it began in 1998. There is no opt outs, apart from ads, with the entire country taking the same programming.

Regular fill-in hosts are Matt Gunn and Miles Davis

The Tony Veitch Sporting Breakfast

Radio Sport's programming is lead by its breakfast programme, the Tony Veitch Sporting Breakfast. The programme is presented by ONE News sports presenter Tony Veitch, since late 2004, who took over from Martin Devlin who moved to Radio Live. Every half hour the show provides sports news updates. The programme relies on interviews with sports news makers and correspondents including ex-pat New Zealander Murray Olds. The show is often irreverent and highly opinionated and runs from 6am-9am Monday to Friday. From 2007, the show has been co-hosted by former Australian netball representative Kathryn Harby-Williams on Wednesday through Friday mornings from 7am until 9am, this has increased to Monday to Friday in 2008. Matt Gunn now hosts the breakfast show on Fridays.

[edit] Morning Sport (The Brendan Telfer Experience)

The morning slot is hosted by Brendan Telfer, a 30 year veteran of New Zealand sports broadcasting, having covered many Olympic Games for TVNZ. A large portion of the show is devoted to golf. Each morning Brendan talks to a sports reporter from the 5 major newspapers in New Zealand about what is featured in their paper that day. Brendan is the only remaining host since Radio Sport began. The show runs from 9am-12pm Monday to Friday.

[edit] Afternoon Sport

During the afternoons, between 12:00pm and 3:00pm, Miles Davis presents a talkback programme, focusing on the issues of the day. Miles speaks with a strong tone to his voice and is a very passionate sports broadcaster. He is very knowledgeable on ALL things sport related and along with his two producers Hayden and Jo, creates an afternoon show well worth listening to.

He is a passionate West Ham supporter.........Pity he doesn't support a real team.

[edit] The D'Arcy Waldegrave Drive Show

For three hours between 3:00pm and 6:00pm D'Arcy Waldegrave presents a programme mainly based on interviews with the news-makers of the day.

D'Arcy Hosts the DRIVE SHOW from 4pm-6pm with his favourite segment ""The Afternoon Tea Party""

beforehand from the hours of 3pm-4pm.

Along with producer Kerrie Pierce, D'Arcy brings his unique views on all things sport to listeners around the country.

[edit] Sport Reloaded

Highlights of the day on Radio Sport, Hosted by the lovely Kerrie Pierce.

[edit] Sportstalk

This hour-long Newstalk ZB sports talkback show, hosted by Murray Deaker, Willie Lose or Peter Montgomery is simulcast on Radio Sport in the evenings.

[edit] Nightsport

Between 8:00pm and 9:00pm, Kent Johns hosts a spotlight on different minor sports, then for the final three hours until midnight hosts talkback. However, live sport takes priority over talkback so when there is live sport that involves New Zealand or New Zealand interests Radiosport will have coverage. This is the case on most Friday nights when live sport is at its premium.

The night show is used as an opportunity to train budding radio personalities to experience what it is like to be in the radio industry. The young interns sit in the producers' seat and produce the show for Kent Johns.

[edit] Overnight

From the channels inception until mid-2006, the 12:00am to 6:00am timeslot was filled with a feed from American sports stations through the internet, however this was no longer provided by the American stations and for about a year the slot was filled with a direct feed from sister station Newstalk ZB, however from August 2007 the overnight feed was reintroduced, from Fox Sports Radio.

[edit] Weekend and Holiday Programming

Saturday and Sunday mornings are dominated by sports discussion discussions on hobbies and personal life. Geoff Thomas presents the Saturday Morning Fishing Breakfast between 7:00am and 8:00am on Saturday mornings, then Phil Gifford hosts The Front Row Rugby Show or John Morrison hosts The Cricket Club (depending on the season) from 8:00am till 10:00am when Doug Golightly takes over with The Saturday DugOut. On Sunday morning, Kevin Hart hosts a breakfast show aimed at country people, a replay of the Newstalk ZB programme SportsWorld is played, followed by former New Zealand cricketer John Morrison hosting two hours of talkback.

During the afternoons, between 12:00pm and 6:00pm, Murray Deaker, Peter Montgomery or Willie Lose present ScoreBoard, a combination of live sports updates and commentary and sports-related talkback. The programme includes interviews with major New Zealand sports people.

On public holidays, there is usually no Sporting Breakfast, instead a variation of New Zealand Sport Today hosted by Barry Holland is aired. Following that, talkback with either Doug Golightly or John Morrison. Followed by a special holiday edition of Scoreboard. Usually instead of Night Sport, there is a feed from Newstalk ZB.

On Christmas Day and Good Friday, a feed from Newstalk ZB is played all day.

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