Sports broadcasting rights in the New Zealand

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

= American Football (Gridiron) =
* National Football League:
** Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
** ESPN : Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. Most play-off games.
** Super Bowl: ESPN

Athletics

* IAAF Golden League:
** Sky Sport (New Zealand): Highlights, plus some live coverage.

Australian Rules Football

* Australian Football League
** Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights. All finals covered live or on delay

Baseball

* Major League Baseball (regular season): ESPN.
* World Series: Sky Sport.

Basketball

* National Basketball League:
** Maori Television: All New Zealand Breakers home games on a 30 minute delay.
** Sky Sport: Has rights to any game shown on Fox Sports Australia

* National Basketball Association: ESPN

Commonwealth Games

* 2010 Commonwealth Games: Television New Zealand

Cricket

* International Cricket:
** Sky Sport: Live coverage, and highlights.
** Prime Television: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
** Stratos: Showed live free to air coverage of two tests in 2008 against England.

* 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 (live coverage)

Football (Soccer)

Leagues

* A-League: Sky Sport
* English Premier League: Sky Sport
* English Football Championship: Sky Sport
* Spanish La Liga: ESPN
* Italian Serie A: ESPN
* Major League Soccer: ESPN
* New Zealand Football Championship: Sky Sport (finals coverage only)

Domestic Cups

* English FA Cup: ESPN
* English League Cup: Sky Sport
* German DFB Cup: ESPN
* Coppa Italia: ESPN
* Chatham Cup: Sky Sport (final only)

International Club Competitions

* UEFA Champions League: ESPN
* UEFA Cup: ESPN
* 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 2008: Sky Sport, Prime
* FIFA World Cup: Sky Sport, Television New Zealand

Golf

* Australian Open: Sky Sport
* British Open: Sky Sport
* Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
* PGA 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
* WGC Accenture MatchPlay Championship : Sky Sport
* WGC CA Championship : Sky Sport
* WCG Bridgestone Invitational : Sky Sport
* WGC Mission Hills World Cup : Sky Sport
*New Zealand Open : Sky Sport

Horse-racing

* Melbourne Cup: Trackside, TV3
* Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside
* All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
* All international race meetings: Trackside
* Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: TV3, Television New Zealand
* Triple Crown Series: ESPN

Lacrosse

* National Lacrosse League: ESPN

Motor Racing

* FIA Formula One: Sky Sport
* GP2: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
* V8 Supercars: TV3, C4 (when TV3 have schedule clashes)
* A1 Grand Prix: TV3
* FIA World Rally Championships: Sky Sport
* Motorcycle Grand Prix (MotoGP): Sky Sport
* NASCAR: Sky Sport
* Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
* IRL IndyCar Series: ESPN
* Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
* "'New Zealand Domestic Racing Series':
** Television New Zealand (highlights and some live coverage)
** Sky Sport (highlights)

Netball

* International Netball:
** Television New Zealand (live coverage)
**Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
* Tasman Trophy Netball League:
**Sky Sport
**Television New Zealand (selected games)

Olympics

* 2008 Summer Olympics: Television New Zealand
* 2010 Winter Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
* 2012 Summer Olympics: Sky Television, Prime
* Paralympic Games: Television New Zealand

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 all New Zealand Warriors games, plus some additional games on delay.
** Te Reo: Delayed coverage of one game per week in Māori language. Riiki NRL shows on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm
* Toyota 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
* Challenge Cup:
** Sky Sport
* 2008 World Cup:
** Sky Sport
* Tri Nations:
**Sky Sport: Live Coverage
** Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

Rugby Union

* Rugby World Cup: TV3 (2007)
* Tri-Nations:
**Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
**Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
* Super 14:
**Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: live coverage of all games
**Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend
* Currie Cup: The Rugby Channel
* Heineken Cup: ESPN, The Rugby Channel
* Air New Zealand Cup:
**Sky Sport/The Rugby Channel: Live coverage of all games
**Prime: Delayed coverage of two games per weekend
* Six Nations Championship: The Rugby Channel
* Guinness Premiership: The Rugby Channel
* Magners League: The Rugby Channel
* EDF Energy Cup: The Rugby Channel

wimming

* FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

Ten-pin bowling

* Professional Bowlers Association: ESPN

Tennis

* ATP Masters Series: Sky Sport
* Grand Slam Tournaments: Sky Sport
* Heineken Open: Television New Zealand
* ASB Classic: Television New Zealand