Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand

This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand. For a list of other country's broadcasting rights, see Sports television broadcast contracts.

American Football (GRIDIRON)

• National Football League:
  • Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
  • ESPN: Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. Most play-off games.
  • Super Bowl: ESPN

Athletics

• IAAF Golden League:
  • Sky Sport (New Zealand): Highlights, plus some live coverage.

Australian Rules Football

• Australian Football League
  • Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights. All finals covered live or on delay

Baseball

• Major League Baseball (regular season): ESPN.
• World Series: Sky Sport.

Basketball

• National Basketball League:
  • Maori Television: All New Zealand Breakers home games on a 30 minute delay.
  • Sky Sport: Has rights to any game shown on Fox Sports Australia

• National Basketball Association: ESPN

Commonwealth Games

• 2010 Commonwealth Games: Television New Zealand

Cricket

• International Cricket:
  • Sky Sport: Live coverage, and highlights.
  • Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
  • Stratos: Showed live free to air coverage of two tests in 2008 against England.

• Domestic Cricket:
  • Sky Sport: Live coverage of selected games, and highlights of some games.
  • Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Showed live free to air coverage State Shield and Twenty20 finals.

Cycling

• Tour de France - Sky Sport (live coverage)

Football (Soccer)

Leagues

• A-League: Sky Sport
• English Premier League: Sky Sport
• English Football Championship: Sky Sport
• Spanish La Liga: ESPN
• Italian Serie A: ESPN
• Major League Soccer: ESPN
• New Zealand Football Championship: Sky Sport (finals coverage only)

Domestic Cups

• English FA Cup: ESPN
• English League Cup: Sky Sport
• German DFB Cup: ESPN
• Coppa Italia: ESPN
• Chatham Cup: Sky Sport (final only)

International Club Competitions

• UEFA Champions League: ESPN
• UEFA Cup: ESPN
• FIFA Club World Cup: Sky Sport

International Matches

• World Cup Qualifying: Sky Sport, ESPN
• Other International Matches: Sky Sport, Prime, ESPN

International Tournaments

• UEFA Euro 2008: Sky Sport, Prime
• FIFA World Cup: Sky Sport, Television New Zealand

Golf

• Australian Open: Sky Sport
• British Open: Sky Sport
• Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
• PGA European Tour: ESPN, Sky Sport
• PGA Tour: ESPN, Sky Sport
• U.S. Open: Sky Sport
• U.S Masters: Sky Sport
• New Zealand PGA Championship : TV3
• WGC Accenture MatchPlay Championship : Sky Sport
• WGC CA Championship : Sky Sport
• WCG Bridgestone Invitational : Sky Sport
• WGC Mission Hills World Cup : Sky Sport
• New Zealand Open : Sky Sport

Horse-racing

• Melbourne Cup: Trackside, TV3
• Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside
• All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
• All international race meetings: Trackside
• Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: TV3, Television New Zealand
• Triple Crown Series: ESPN

Lacrosse

• National Lacrosse League: ESPN

Motor Racing

• FIA Formula One: Sky Sport
• GP2: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• V8 Supercars: TV3, C4 (when TV3 have schedule clashes)
• A1 Grand Prix: TV3
• FIA World Rally Championships: Sky Sport
• Motorcycle Grand Prix (MotoGP): Sky Sport
• NASCAR: Sky Sport
• Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
• IRL IndyCar Series: ESPN
• Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• '''New Zealand Domestic Racing Series':
  • Television New Zealand (highlights and some live coverage)
  • Sky Sport (highlights)

Netball

• International Netball:
  • Television New Zealand (live coverage)
  • Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• Tasman Trophy Netball League:
  • Sky Sport
  • Television New Zealand (selected games)

Olympics

• 2008 Summer Olympics: Television New Zealand
• 2010 Winter Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
• 2012 Summer Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
• Paralympic Games: Television New Zealand

Rowing

• World Rowing Championships: Sky Sport
• Rowing World Cup: Sky Sport

Rugby League

• National Rugby League:
  • Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of all New Zealand Warriors games, plus some additional games on delay.
  • Te Reo: Delayed coverage of one game per week in Māori language. Riiki NRL shows on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm
• Toyota Cup:
  • Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
• State of Origin:
  • Sky Sport: Live Coverage
  • Prime: Delayed coverage
• European Super League:
  • Sky Sport
• Challenge Cup:
  • Sky Sport
• 2008 World Cup:
  • Sky Sport
• Tri Nations:
  • Sky Sport: Live Coverage
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

Rugby Union

• Rugby World Cup: TV3 (2007)
• Tri-Nations:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
• Super 14:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend
• Currie Cup: The Rugby Channel
• Heineken Cup: ESPN, The Rugby Channel
• Air New Zealand Cup:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend
• Six Nations Championship: The Rugby Channel
• Guinness Premiership: The Rugby Channel
• Magners League: The Rugby Channel
• EDF Energy Cup: The Rugby Channel

Swimming

• FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

Ten-pin bowling

• Professional Bowlers Association: ESPN

Tennis

• ATP Masters Series: Sky Sport
• Grand Slam Tournaments: Sky Sport
• Heineken Open: Television New Zealand
• ASB Classic: Television New Zealand