Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand

Australian Football League
- Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.
AFL Women's
- Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.

Badminton[edit]

BWF: YouTube

Baseball[edit]

Major League Baseball (Regular season, Playoffs and World Series): ESPN.
College baseball: ESPN
Little League World Series: ESPN
World Baseball Classic: ESPN

Basketball[edit]

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, NBA TV International
Women's National Basketball Association: ESPN
College basketball: ESPN
NBA Summer League: ESPN
NBA G League: ESPN
The Basketball Tournament: ESPN
Basketball Africa League: ESPN

Boxing[edit]

Dream Boxing: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
Golden Boy: DAZN
Matchroom: DAZN
Premier Boxing Champions: Sky Arena (PPV fights)

Cricket[edit]

New Zealand Cricket - Home Domestic and International Cricket:
- Spark Sport (2020-July 2023), TVNZ (July 2023-2026)
  - Home internationals involving the New Zealand men's and women's cricket teams
  - Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash
  - The Ford Trophy final
- Limited free-to-air rights: TVNZ (2020-July 2023): Live coverage of the first T20 International of a home series involving the New Zealand men's and women's cricket teams. Live coverage of most matches from the Super Smash domestic competitions.
England and Wales Cricket Board
- Spark Sport (2020- July 2023), TVNZ (July-September 2023)
  - Home internationals
  - The Hundred
  - Vitality Blast
  - Royal London One-Day Cup final
ICC
- Sky Sport: All major ICC events
- Prime: Live coverage of a selection matches involving the New Zealand cricket team. Highlights of other events or matches.
- Spark Sport: Highlights of all major ICC events (2019-July 2023)
Other Overseas cricket:
- Sky Sport:
  - International fixtures - Cricket Australia, BCCI (India), Cricket South Africa, Cricket West Indies and Pakistan Cricket Board.
  - Australian domestic competitions: Sheffield Shield, One-Day Cup, Women's National Cricket League, Big Bash League and Women's Big Bash League.
  - Indian Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Super50 Cup, Pakistan Super League and Major League Cricket.
- Prime: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
- ThreeNow:
  - New Zealand cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24

Cycling[edit]

Tour de France: Sky Sport

Esports[edit]

Extreme Sports[edit]

X Games: ESPN

Field hockey[edit]

Men's and Women's Hockey World Cups: Spark Sport
Men's and Women's Hockey Pro Leagues: Spark Sport

Golf[edit]

Australian Open: Spark Sport (2019–2020)
The Open Championship: Sky Sport
Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
European Tour: Sky Sport
PGA Tour: 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)

Gridiron football[edit]

National Football League:
- ESPN: NFL Network games, three Sunday afternoon games, Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. All play-off games.
- Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
College football: ESPN
XFL: ESPN

Horse-racing[edit]

Kentucky Derby: ESPN
Preakness Stakes: ESPN
Belmont Stakes: ESPN
All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
All international race meetings: Trackside
Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: Prime
Melbourne Cup: Trackside, TVNZ
Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside

Ice Hockey[edit]

Kickboxing[edit]

King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
King in the Ring: TVNZ

Lacrosse[edit]

Major League Lacrosse: ESPN

Mixed Martial Arts[edit]

Bushido MMA: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
Ultimate Fighting Championship: ESPN (Fight Night and PPV preliminaries), Sky Arena (PPVs)
ONE Championship: Triller TV

Motor racing[edit]

FIA Formula One: Sky Sport
Porsche Supercup: Sky Sport
Formula 2: Sky Sport
Formula 3: Sky Sport
Formula E: Sky Sport (live), Three (highlights)
IndyCar Series: Sky Sport
AMA Supercross Championship: ESPN
Supercars Championship: Sky Sport (Includes support categories)
Dunlop Super2 Series: Sky Sport (Live with Supercars Championship) Three (Delayed)
NZ Touring Cars Championship: Three (delayed coverage)
DTM: Three (highlights)
WTCC: Three (highlights)
World Rally Championship: TVNZ
World Rallycross Championship: Spark Sport
MotoGP: ThreeNow
Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
NASCAR ThreeNow
BTCC:Three (delayed coverage)
W Series: Sky Sport

Multi-discipline events[edit]

Commonwealth Games: TVNZ (2018); Sky Sport and Prime (2022 and 2026)
Summer Olympics: Sky Sport and TVNZ (2020)
Winter Olympics: Sky Sport and Prime
Paralympics Games: TVNZ
Special Olympics World Games: ESPN

Netball[edit]

ANZ Premiership:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games, elimination final and grand final)
2019 Netball World Cup:
- Sky Sport
International Netball:
- Sky Sport (live coverage)
National Netball League:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
Suncorp Super Netball:
- Spark Sport (live coverage of all games)

Poker[edit]

World Series of Poker: ESPN

Rowing[edit]

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

Rugby league[edit]

National Rugby League:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of Warriors games
New South Wales Cup:
- Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
NZRL National Premiership
- Sky Sport
State of Origin:
- Sky Sport: Live Coverage
- Prime: Delayed coverage
Super League:
- Sky Sport
Rugby League Challenge Cup:
- Sky Sport
Four Nations:
- Sky Sport: Live Coverage
- Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

Rugby union[edit]

Rugby World Cup: Sky Sport
The Rugby Championship:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
Super Rugby:
- Sky Sport: live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of one game per weekend on Saturday Night. They also show highlights of all games and one full game.
College 1st XV coverage
- Sky Sport: Live and delayed coverage and highlights of televised matches during the week.
Currie Cup: Sky Sport
European Rugby Champions Cup: Spark Sport
National Provincial Championship:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Live and delayed coverage of selected games.
Six Nations Championship: Sky Sport
Gallagher Premiership: Sky Sport

Softball[edit]

Men's Softball World Championship: Whakaata Māori^[2]

Swimming[edit]

FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

Tennis[edit]

Australian Open: Sky Sport
French Open: Sky Sport
The Championships, Wimbledon: Sky Sport^[3]
U.S. Open: Spark Sport
ATP Finals: Sky Sport
ATP Tour Masters 1000: Sky Sport
ATP Tour 500: Sky Sport
Next Generation ATP Finals: Sky Sport
WTA Tour: Spark Sport
ASB Classic: Sky Sport^[4]
Laver Cup: Sky Sport
Davis Cup: Sky Sport
Fed Cup: Sky Sport

References[edit]

^ "Great news for football fans – the Premier League is coming back to Sky". SKY New Zealand. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
^ "Whakaata Māori becomes first indigenous broadcaster for Softball World Cup 2022". New Zealand Herald. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
^ Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.
^ Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.

[1] "Great news for football fans – the Premier League is coming back to Sky". SKY New Zealand. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.

[2] "Whakaata Māori becomes first indigenous broadcaster for Softball World Cup 2022". New Zealand Herald. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.

[3] Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.

[4] Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.

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