{"id":9395,"date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/channel-9-has-cancelled-the-afl-footy-show\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"channel-9-has-cancelled-the-afl-footy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/channel-9-has-cancelled-the-afl-footy-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 9 Has Cancelled The AFL Footy Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The AFL Footy Show has been axed after 25 years on air.<\/h3>\n<p>According to Macquarie Sports Radio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current iteration of the show \u2013 hosted by Anthony Lehmann, Neroli Meadows, Dylan Alcott, Brendan Fevola and Shane Crawford \u2013 lasted just eight episodes following record low ratings up against Channel 7\u2019s juggernaut,&nbsp;<em>The Front Bar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 9 confirmed the news after Thursday night\u2019s show and comes after poor ratings throughout 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nine\u2019s Melbourne Managing Director Matt Scriven confirmed the new version of the show hadn\u2019t \u201ccaptured audiences\u201d in a way that was envisaged following the departure of Sam Newman and Eddie McGuire at the end of the last season.<\/p>\n<p>Ratings of the long-running show reached an all-time low last Thursday when just 53,000 people in Melbourne tuned in.<\/p>\n<p>Since beginning in 1994, 735 episodes were produced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Axed.<br><br>After 25 years on air, the show is no more.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kRBJ8vBKGw\">https:\/\/t.co\/kRBJ8vBKGw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Macquarie Sports Radio (@MacquarieSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacquarieSport\/status\/1126593220543008768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL Footy Show has been axed after 25 years on air. According to Macquarie Sports Radio: The current iteration of the show \u2013 hosted by Anthony Lehmann, Neroli Meadows, Dylan Alcott, Brendan Fevola and Shane Crawford \u2013 lasted just eight episodes following record low ratings up against Channel 7\u2019s juggernaut,&nbsp;The Front Bar. Channel 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Channel 9 Has Cancelled The AFL Footy Show - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/channel-9-has-cancelled-the-afl-footy-show\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Channel 9 Has Cancelled The AFL Footy Show\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The AFL Footy Show has been axed after 25 years on air. 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