- Eddie McGuire has taken on a role at Channel 7
- Through his production company JAM TV
- It will remain in the books of Channel 9
Eddie McGuire has been at Channel 9 for so long that he’s part of the furniture, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking on an impactful role at Channel 7.
McGuire, 60, is the boss of production company JAM TV, which has secured the rights to produce two new AFL talk shows during the 2025 season on the rival free-to-air network.
It is understood that McGuire’s team will produce the Sunday football festivalwhich will be broadcast every week after the long run of Channel 9 Sunday football show.
A second program will also air after Channel 7’s live football coverage on Sunday afternoons, which News Corp says will be called The washing.
Initially an AFL statistician and cricket reporter for the now-defunct Herald in Melbourne, media mogul McGuire was then a cadet sports reporter at Channel 10, before moving to Nine in 1993.
The former Collingwood chairman and former Nine chief executive has long been the host of Who wants to be a millionaire? since 1999, and the workaholic is known in some circles as ‘Eddie Everywhere’ since he is involved in so many projects.
McGuire’s pending role at Seven has raised eyebrows in some quarters given how outspoken he was when Ranked football His colleagues Kane Cornes and Caroline Wilson officially jumped ship in November to work with Craig Hutchison next season.
He even labeled Seven the ‘copycat channel’ and declared it was not threatened by AFL premiership winner Cornes or veteran journalist Wilson defecting to the enemy.
Eddie McGuire took on a role at Channel 7 ahead of the 2025 AFL season (pictured, with wife Carla)
‘Eddie Everywhere’ is the boss of production company JAM TV, which has secured the rights to produce two new AFL talk shows on the rival free-to-air network next year.
“At the end of the (football) season, you get rid of the roster clogs and move in the new superstars,” he said. Today recently.
‘And that’s what we’re doing. The Footy Classified with Caroline Wilson and Craig Hutchison. That started 18 years ago.
And it has been fantastic. And it’s great that Channel Copycat (Seven) is just taking something we’ve done for 18 years and putting it on the air.
‘So it’s okay. While they’re at it, we’ll come up with something fresh, new and exciting for next year and do what we always do.”
McGuire also noted that he previously worked for Channel 10 during its Melbourne Cup racing coverage, and made reference to people such as Sam Pang, Hamish Blake and Andy Lee employed by multiple networks simultaneously.
And despite the intense competition that awaits between McGuire and Hutchinson when it comes to ratings, the two are said to be firm friends.
It remains to be seen if that will be the case in September next year.