{"id":1161,"date":"2025-03-06T22:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:25:47","slug":"3aw-announces-star-studded-coverage-for-2025-afl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/3aw-announces-star-studded-coverage-for-2025-afl-season\/","title":{"rendered":"3AW announces star-studded coverage for 2025 AFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ninetrade-main-post-featured__container\">\n<div class=\"ninetrade-main-post__title-logo-social\">\n<h1 class=\"ninetrade-main-post__title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ninetrade-main-post__featured-img lazyloaded\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-778x438.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-778x438.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-368x207.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-544x306.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands-71x40.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.nineforbrands.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3AW_Football_NineforBrands.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"3AW announces star-studded coverage for 2025 AFL season\" width=\"778\" height=\"438\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ninetrade-main-post__content\">\n<p class=\"has-nine-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3e8be33fb0b2d990803ea86f08ce806d\"><strong>Melbourne\u2019s leading station 3AW is set to deliver another season of unmatched AFL coverage in 2025. Returning to the commentary box are some of the game\u2019s most respected voices and biggest names to deliver live expert analysis, play-by-play coverage, and in-depth discussions for footy fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 3AW AFL 2025 line-up includes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thursday Night Football<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Bartel<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Matthew Richardson<\/strong>, with callers\u00a0<strong>Anthony Hudson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Bruce Eva.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday Night Football<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Bartel<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Matthew Lloyd<\/strong>, with callers\u00a0<strong>Tim Lane<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Matt Granland.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday Footy Preview<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tim Lane, Caroline Wilson,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Leigh Matthews<\/strong>\u00a0set the stage for the day\u2019s action.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday Early Game<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Leigh Matthews<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Joel Selwood<\/strong>, with callers\u00a0<strong>Bruce Eva\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Tony Leonard.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday Twilight Game<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tony Shaw<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Libby Birch<\/strong>, with callers\u00a0<strong>Matt Granland<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Shane McInnes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sunday Football<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tony Shaw<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Matthew Richardson<\/strong>, with callers\u00a0<strong>Bruce Eva<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Matt Granland.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adding to this year\u2019s excitement, renowned journalist\u00a0<strong>Laura Spurway<\/strong>\u00a0will join the 3AW football team as the station\u2019s first dedicated AFLW reporter, contributing to the Sunday coverage and appearing across all games.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong champion\u00a0<strong>Joel Selwood<\/strong>\u00a0is joining the team rotating across all games. With his outstanding career as a player and captain, Joel brings all his footy knowledge fresh from the game to the 3AW team.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0<strong>Rory Sloane<\/strong>\u00a0brings his wealth of experience to the broadcast team. Alongside his new role on Nine\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sunday Footy Show<\/em>, Sloane will be rotating into 3AW\u2019s coverage, taking a seat next to AFL legend\u00a0<strong>Leigh Matthews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with our commentary teams and callers we also are thrilled to have back the boundary reporters\u00a0<strong>Jacqui Reed<\/strong>\u00a0and Carlton AFLW vice captain\u00a0<strong>Abbie McKay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fans can also look forward to the return of the\u00a0<strong>Eddie and Jimmy podcast<\/strong>\u00a0in 2025, which will be publishing three episodes per week, available to listen to on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and to watch on\u00a0<strong>9Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Luca Gonano<\/strong>, Head of 3AW Football, said:\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>With a team of AFL greats, seasoned broadcasters, fresh voices and innovation in the games future, 3AW is proud to continue its tradition of delivering the most\u00a0 accurate, insightful and entertaining AFL coverage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tune in for every key moment of the 2025 season, live on Melbourne\u2019s own 3AW.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne\u2019s leading station 3AW is set to deliver another season of unmatched AFL coverage in 2025. Returning to the commentary box are some of the game\u2019s most respected voices and biggest names to deliver live expert analysis, play-by-play coverage, and in-depth discussions for footy fans. The 3AW AFL 2025 line-up includes:\u00a0 Thursday Night Football:\u00a0Jimmy Bartel\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/3aw-announces-star-studded-coverage-for-2025-afl-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3AW announces star-studded coverage for 2025 AFL season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}