Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand include:

Association football

Athletics

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

Australian rules

• 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

• BWF: OVO Mobile (2019–2021)^[2]

Baseball

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

• Dream Boxing: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights

Cricket

• 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

• Tour de France: Sky Sport

Esports

• Madden Club Championship: ESPN
• Madden Bowl: ESPN

Extreme Sports

• X Games: ESPN

Field hockey

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

Golf

• 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

• 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

• 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

• National Hockey League: ESPN
• Premier Hockey Federation: ESPN
• Swedish Hockey League: ESPN

Kickboxing

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

Lacrosse

• Major League Lacrosse: ESPN

Mixed Martial Arts

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

Motor racing

• 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: TVNZ
• Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
• Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
• NASCAR Three (highlights)
• BTCC:Three (delayed coverage)
• W Series: Sky Sport

Multi-discipline events

• 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

• 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

• World Series of Poker: ESPN

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 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

• 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

• Men's Softball World Championship: Whakaata Māori^[3]

Swimming

• FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

Tennis

• Australian Open: Sky Sport
• French Open: Sky Sport
• The Championships, Wimbledon: Sky Sport^[4]
• 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^[5]
• Laver Cup: Sky Sport
• Davis Cup: Sky Sport
• Fed Cup: Sky Sport

See also

• List of sports television broadcast contracts

References