Toyota World Sport

Toyota World Sport was an Australian television sport news program. Airing on SBS at 7pm local time, the long-running show was axed in December 2006.

The show aired at 7pm following SBS' 6.30 news (and repeated the following day at 4pm), and is hosted by Les Murray on weekdays, and Andrew Orsatti on weekends.

Presenters

Stephanie Brantz was originally a weekend presenter of the show, but joined Les Murray as a co-host during 2006, before she defected to the Nine Network in August of that year. Other hosts during this period include Andrew Orsatti and Mike Tomalaris.

Former presenters include Liz Deep-Jones (who hosted mainly in the late 1990s-early 2000s), Simon Hill & Mieke Buchan.

Robert Grasso, John Baldock and Emma Simkin were among the show's award winning team of journalists.

Demise

Despite its successful ratings with the FIFA World Cup and the Tour de France in 2006, the show was axed in favour of an extended one-hour news program that incorporates sport news, because SBS management was worried about the drop in viewers after the 6.30pm news. [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/08/1152240537668.html "Toyota World Sport shown the red card in SBS reshuffle" in the Sydney Morning Herald] by David Sygall on July 9, 2006 (accessed July 11, 2006)] .

References

External links

* [http://www20.sbs.com.au/sport/ SBS Sport]
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=424055;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Toyota World Sports at the National Film and Sound Archive]