In 2009 Network Ten enters its eighth consecutive year as a principal broadcast partner of the AFL. Ten continues to set new standards in AFL broadcasting and in 2009 the Network launches a new 24-hour sports channel, ONE, with all games televised on ONE broadcast in High Definition with 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound. Most games will be televised simulcast on TEN and ONE and both games televised by Network Ten will be replayed each week on ONE.

Network Ten's commentary team is unmatched while its support programming including extended 'Sports Tonight' shows on ONE, 'One Week At A Time', a new AFL show on ONE each Monday night, 'Thursday Night Live' a new sports show to be televised each Thursday night on ONE, and popular shows 'Before the Game', and 'The 5th Quarter' perfectly augment the match coverage.

In 2009, Network Ten is committed to Footy.

We just love the footy.

The AFL finals series, Brownlow Medal, Friday Night Football, Sunday Football and nab Cup Grand Final are all on Seven in 2009.

AFL Legend Leigh Matthews joins the commentary team with Bruce McAvaney, Dennis Cometti, Nathan Buckley, Tim Watson, David Schwarz and Rick Olarenshaw.

AFL Game Day is back Sundays at 10am with host Hamish McLachlan to tackle all the big footy issues, review and preview the weekend’s matches and have some fun.

Sandy Roberts takes footy fans down memory lane with Brut Footy Flashbacks. The one-hour show takes a look back at some of the most memorable and dramatic AFL matches in living memory.

Want every game this season? FOXTEL’s coverage on FOX SPORTS brings you closer to the action than any other network. FOX SPORTS broadcasts every game from every week of the season including 4 LIVE games from every home and away round. You’ll also enjoy at least 1 LIVE  game each week broadcast in 1080i high definition on FOX SPORTS HD. And with FOXTEL iQ, you’ll never miss a moment with technology that records games at the touch of a button. You can even pause, rewind and replay live footage and record multiple shows at the same time  – keeping the whole family happy this footy season.

Nothing beats FOX SPORTS on FOXTEL for the best in AFL coverage this season.

BigPond provides the best on-line footy experience available - 24 hours a day seven days a week. BigPond customers get great AFL content as part of their standard monthly subscription fee and that includes match replays, match highlights and quarter-by-quarter video news updates, as it happens. And for BigPond ADSL and cable broadband customers, AFL broadband content does not contribute to monthly usage allowances. afl.com.au is by far the most popular sports website in Australia and is growing every week.

NEWS LTD is Australia’s biggest media company and the official newspaper partner of the AFL. The company’s 13 metropolitan-based newspapers around Australia keep up to six million readers informed, entertained and passionate about AFL seven days a week. News Ltd's key papers include the Herald Sun in Victoria, Daily Telegraph in NSW, Courier Mail in Queensland, Adelaide Advertiser in SA, Hobart Mercury in Tasmania, Sunday Times in WA, NT News in Darwin and The Australian. News Ltd's commitment also extends into the growing markets of regional Queensland where the Gold Coast Bulletin, Cairns Post and Townsville Bulletin play a vital role in assisting to develop the game. The company’s reporting strength is demonstrated by the fact that it has 60 reporters and 20 photographers dedicated to covering our great game. News Ltd is also a 50 per cent owner of AFL broadcaster Fox Sports.

3AW Football enters its 57th year of broadcasting Australia’s greatest game with its award winning team.

Our callers Rex Hunt, Tony Leonard and Shane Healy are joined by the voice of Channel 7 football and TV’s most popular caller Dennis Cometti. On Saturday nights, Shane McInnes is back for his second season as he gains his stripes in the calling field.

Special commentators including premiership coach and player Robert Walls, Norm Smith medallist and premiership captain Tony Shaw and duel premiership player David King are all back, along with last year's media recruit of the year, Collingwood captain and Brownlow medallist Nathan Buckley, who made a huge impact in so many areas of the media last season.

Joining us in 2009 will be North Melbourne premiership coach Denis Pagan and one of the game’s greatest champions, premiership player and four-time premiership coach Leigh Matthews.

Premiership player Graeme Bond has all the stats and Coleman medallist Scott Cummings will be on the boundary.

The award winning pregame shows will feature Melbourne’s leading football journalists Caroline Wilson, Mike Sheahan and Rohan Connolly, along with our special commentators who will address all the major issues and put the big names in football under the microscope each weekend.

In 2009 Triple M Footy is back with the best in the business.

James Brayshaw, Brian Taylor, Garry Lyon, Jason Dunstall, Danny Frawley, Dr. Peter Larkins, Mike McLean, Damian Barrett, Mark Stevens, Michael Roberts & Ash Chua are all returning for another exciting season of football.

And like all great footy teams, Triple M continues to strengthen its already stellar line-up by recruiting only the best.

This year, Triple M welcomes back Stephen Quartermain as host and caller on Triple M’s new-look Sunday broadcasts. Joining Quarters in the front row of the commentary box to call all the footy action is rising star Hamish McLachlan. Plus, Hawks legend, Jason ‘The Chief’ Dunstall continues in his special comments role.

And, jumping on the Hawthorn Premiership bandwagon, there can only be one man capable of accompanying The Chief in not only providing the best and most efficient game analysis on Sunday’s, but who also doesn’t take himself too seriously and understands Triple M footy’s style of larrikin humour. He’s Shane Crawford ... and that’s what we’re talkin’ about!

On Saturday nights, Mike McLean and Hamish McLachlan will be joined by former St Kilda star Andrew Thompson on special comments.

In 2009, Triple M ROCKS Footy.

Melbourne’s Home of Sport - 1116 SEN, Australia’s only 24/7 all sports radio station, will cover more AFL matches this season than any other broadcaster in the business. Indeed, Melbourne’s renowned sports mad public will enjoy unrivalled access to the biggest games and the biggest names, and will be provided with the greatest opportunity to have their say. Our calling team - headed by Anthony Hudson, Eddie McGuire, AFL Hall of Fame inductee Kevin Bartlett, Wayne Schwass, Andrew Maher and Matt Granland - will be complemented by a who’s who of special comments men, including Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton, former Western Bulldogs’ star Luke Darcy, self-titled “King of Geelong” Billy Brownless, David Schwarz, Grant Thomas, Nathan Thompson, Shane Wakelin, Daniel Harford and Andrew Jarman.

On Saturday’s, 1116 SEN’S pre-match coverage will provide footy fanatics with the perfect lead in to the match of the day. Hudson will call the shots on “Crunch Time” between 11am and 1pm alongside Brereton, former St. Kilda coach Grant Thomas and gun footy journo Mark Robinson.

On Sunday’s, 1116 SEN will begin its pre-match analysis at 10am before providing the only commercial coverage of the 1pm and twilight matches. And of course when other stations are pulling the plug on their broadcasts, we’ll just be warming up with fans given the opportunity to voice their opinions on wall-to-wall talkback program “Finey’s Final Siren”.

As always, 1116 will be “First at the Footy and last to leave” in 2009.

ABC Local Radio presents 100% Pure Footy - live and commercial free every weekend with the most respected callers, experts and opinion makers in AFL football. ABC Local Radio Grandstand will broadcast 5 AFL matches in full every weekend from Friday night to 2 matches every Saturday and two full games on Sunday afternoon. Matches will also be broadcast on Radio Australia through the Pacific and parts of Asia. The Grandstand AFL coverage is the only coverage that reaches all parts of Australia whether you are in a capital city or in the remotest corner of the continent.

FIVEaa is Adelaide’s Number 1 Footy Station and has been calling AFL games since the Crows inception in 1991. With a commentary team that includes Stephen Rowe & Graham Cornes, Chris Dittmar, David Wildy, KG, Chris McDermott and Josh Francou plus respected journalists Michelangelo Rucci and Ian Shuttleworth.

FIVEaa provides Adelaide’s most comprehensive coverage of AFL Football, broadcasting up to six live games every weekend, including EVERY Crows and Power game live and passionate from wherever they play.

The game happens on FIVEaa.

6PR provides Perth’s most comprehensive coverage of AFL Football, broadcasting up to six live games every weekend, including every Eagles and Dockers game. With a line-up including Eagles legends Karl Langdon, Rob Wiley and Glen Jakovich, Brownlow medallist Brad Hardie plus respected commentators Graham Dawson and Mark Readings, 6PR delivers the best of what our great Australian game has to offer.

K-Rock provides the best football coverage for Geelong, Werribee and Victoria's Surfcoast. With Anthony Mithen heading up the call team along with Ian Robertson, Michael Christian , Darren Berry and Ian Cohen as well as our special comments team featuring Andrew Bews, Michael Mansfield, Michael Turner, John Barnes and a host of special guests. K-Rock bring's you all the weekend's footy action, with an emphasis on Geelong games.

The National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS) will enter its 12^th year of coverage of AFL games in 2009.

With a commitment to a high quality broadcast, the NIRS is also a vehicle that provides opportunities for current and former Indigenous players to be involved in the media under the broad banner of AFL Indigenous Broadcasting

A minimum of 3 matches are covered each round and broadcast via a vast network of some 200+ community stations right across the country including Northern, Central and Western Australia along with remote communities in the northern part of the country.

Major city coverage is also possible via Brisbane, Darwin and Perth.

With over 50% of the team being Indigenous, senior callers including Barry Denner, Andrew Underwood and Richard Griffiths are joined each week by former greats including Gilbert McAdam, Ronnie Burns, Glenn James, Darryl White, Mark Browning and Peter “Crackers Keenan”.

Listeners in Brisbane should tune into 989fm or nationally via the NIRS network to hear an entertaining and insightful coverage of AFL games each week.

Apart from the broadcast coverage itself, the product of AFL Indigenous Broadcasting is used as a training platform and vehicle that allow opportunities for current and former Indigenous AFL players to have an employment pathway and opportunities within the media should they wish.

Additionally, AFL Indigenous Broadcasting is also used as the brand to promote positive lifestyle and health related messages to other Indigenous and Non Indigenous people right across the country.