Sunday Football (NRL)

Sunday Football is an Australian sports broadcast series is currently airing on the Nine Network since 1992 in NSW, QLD, ACT & NT only and on GEM in 2012 in VIC, SA, WA & TAS.

Broadcast History

The Nine Network has broadcast Sunday NRL games since 1992. As of 2007 the Nine Network now broadcasts NRL games in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory on Sunday live at 4.00. Whichever of The Two matches is televised first can depend on which teams are playing, for example, a match involving a Queensland based team would in most cases be televised first into Queensland, and delayed in New South Wales; conversely, a match involving a New South Wales based team is usually televised first into New South Wales, and delayed in Queensland.

The match normally kicks off at 3:00 pm, but the broadcast is delayed until 4:00 pm, running until 6:00 pm in order to provide a strong lead-in to Nine News. These broadcasts are aired after midnight on Monday mornings in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania until 2013.

From in Round 4 of the 2014 NRL season, for yet unexplained reasons GEM stopped showing the NRL on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons live into Adelaide, with the coverage for all games on Nine reverting back to the after midnight 'graveyard shift'. As the change was unannounced and in Adelaide only (the rest of South Australia still receives the live coverage), this has angered many fans in the city, both South Australians and those who have re-located from NSW or Qld.

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