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Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand

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

Contents

American football (Gridiron)

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

    • Leagues

  • A-League: Sky Sport
  • W-League: Sky Sport
  • English Premier League: beIN Sports
  • English Football Championship: beIN Sports
  • English Football League One: beIN Sports
  • English Football League Two: beIN Sports
  • Major League Soccer: ESPN
  • La Liga: Television New Zealand & beIN Sports
  • Ligue 1: Television New Zealand & beIN Sports
  • New Zealand Football Championship: Sky Sport (finals coverage only)
  • Bundesliga: Television New Zealand & YouTube
  • Liga NOS: beIN Sports
  • Brazilian League and São Paulo Championship: beIN Sports
  • J1 League: Sky Sport

    • Domestic Cups

  • English FA Cup: ESPN
  • Spanish Copa del Rey:
  • beIN Sports (except the final)
  • Prime & ESPN (final only)
  • Copa do Brasil: beIN Sports
  • Chatham Cup: Sky Sport (final only)

    • International Club Competitions

  • UEFA Champions League: beIN Sports
  • UEFA Europa League: beIN Sports
  • UEFA Super Cup: beIN Sports
  • CONMEBOL Libertadores: beIN Sports
  • CONMEBOL Sudamericana: beIN Sports
  • Recopa CONMEBOL Sudamericana: beIN Sports
  • 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 2016: Sky Sport, Prime
  • FIFA World Cup: Sky Sport, Television New Zealand

    • Athletics

  • IAAF Golden League:
  • Sky Sport: Highlights, plus some live coverage.

    • Australian rules football

  • Australian Football League
  • Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.

    • Baseball

  • Asia Series: ESPN
  • Major League Baseball (Regular season, Playoffs and World Series): ESPN.
  • Nippon Professional Baseball (Regular season, Climax Series and Japan Series): ESPN

    • Basketball

  • National Basketball League: Sky Sport
  • National Basketball League (Australia):
  • Sky Sport has one game every Thursday night; live coverage of Semifinal, and Grand Final.
  • National Basketball Association: ESPN, Television New Zealand
  • Euroleague: Eurosport

    • Cricket

  • International Cricket:
  • Sky Sport: Shows All New Zealand Home and away matches also shows Australian Home International and most of English Home International fixtures
  • Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
  • 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

    • Field Hockey

  • Hockey World Cup: TBA (2018)
  • Hockey World League: TBA (2017)
  • New Zealand Black Sticks (Men) matches: Sky Sport
  • New Zealand Black Sticks (Women) matches: Sky Sport

    • Gaelic Games

  • Gaelic Athletic Association: beIN Sports
  • International Rules Series in Australia: beIN Sports
  • International Rules Series in the Republic of Ireland: beIN Sports

    • Golf

  • Australian Open: Sky Sport
  • The Open Championship: Sky Sport
  • Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
  • 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
  • World Golf Championships : Sky Sport
  • World Cup : Sky Sport
  • New Zealand Open : Sky Sport
  • LPGA Tour : SKY Sport (New Zealand)
  • Evian Masters : Sky Sport (New Zealand)

    • Horse-racing

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

    • Lacrosse

  • National Lacrosse League: ESPN

    • Motor racing

  • FIA Formula One: Sky Sport
  • Formula E: TVNZ
  • GP2: Sky Sport
  • GP3: Sky Sport
  • Virgin Australia Supercars Championship: Sky Sport (Includes support categories)
  • DTM: TV3 (highlights)
  • WTCC: TV3 (highlights)
  • World Rally Championships: Sky Sport
  • World Rallycross Championship: Sommet Sports
  • MotoGP: Sky Sport
  • Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
  • Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
  • NASCAR: Sky Sport
  • IRL IndyCar Series: Sky Sport
  • BTCC:Sky Sport (highlights)

    • Multi-discipline events

  • Commonwealth Games: Television New Zealand
  • Summer Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
  • Winter Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
  • Paralympics 2016: Television New Zealand

    • Netball

  • ANZ Premiership:
  • Sky Sport (live coverage of all games, elimination final and grand final)
  • INF Netball World Cup:
  • TBA (2019)
  • International Netball:
  • Sky Sport (live coverage)
  • Beko Netball League:
  • Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)

    • Rowing

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

    • Rugby league

  • National Rugby League:
  • Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games sometimes only show one live game on Sunday and show the other delayed
  • Te Reo: Delayed coverage of one game per week in Māori language. Riiki NRL shows on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm
  • Holden Cup:
  • Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
  • New South Wales 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
  • Rugby League Challenge Cup:
  • Sky Sport
  • Four Nations:
  • Sky Sport: Live Coverage
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

    • Rugby union

  • Rugby World Cup: TBA (2019)
  • The Rugby Championship:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
  • Super Rugby:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend on Friday night and Sunday Afternoon. They also show highlights of all games and one full game.
  • Currie Cup: The Rugby Channel
  • Heineken Cup: ESPN, The Rugby Channel
  • ITM Cup:
  • Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
  • Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend
  • Six Nations Championship: The Rugby ChannelESPN Australia
  • Aviva Premiership: The Rugby Channel
  • Magners League: The Rugby Channel
  • Anglo-Welsh Cup: The Rugby Channel

    • Swimming

  • FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

    • Ten-pin bowling

  • PBA Tour: ESPN

    • Tennis

  • ATP World Tour Masters 1000:ESPN Australia
  • ATP World Tour 500 series:ESPN Australia
  • Grand Slam series: Sky Sport
  • Wimbledon Championships: TVNZ
  • ASB Classic: Sky Sport
  • International Premier Tennis League: TVNZ & YouTube

    • References

    Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand Wikipedia
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