Will Quarters get plum role on revised Sports Tonight show?
WORD is out Channel 10 is reviving it’s old format Sports Tonight, with former host Matt White expected to return to front the weekly show. But what about Quarters?
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WORD is out Channel 10 is reviving it’s old format Sports Tonight, with former host Matt White expected to return to front the weekly show.
But the real question on everyone’s lips is will Stephen Quartermain be in the mix?
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Even Quarters isn’t sure yet. The much loved former Ten Eyewitness News anchor is still in talks with the network about his future role.
But one thing is for sure, Sports Tonight will be making a comeback.
The Logie-winning show ran from 1993 to 2011 before being boned.
Modelled on the American version of the same name, the weeknightly half-hour sports news and information program was hosted by Tim Webster after Ten Late News.
The shows merged in 2006, accompanied by much criticism, before being axed in 2011.
Some say Channel 10’s news and sports coverage went downhill from there.
White took over from Webster and later spent a decade in the Channel 7 stable before rejoining Ten in 2014 to cover Supercars among other roles.
Page 13 hears the rebooted Sports Tonight will run on Sunday nights with White and a panel of experts, such as ex-Hawk Josh Gibson.
Another former Sports Tonight host, Brad McEwan, told Page 13 White was the “consummate professional” and applauded Ten for rebooting the format.
“It’s a great move by Ten, it was an institution and I always wondered why they axed it,” McEwan said. “I still walk down the street and if they don’t know my name they just yell out Sports Tonight.
“Coming from a rural background, I know people in the country loved it, they would come in off the tractor or from milking the cow at night and watch Sports Tonight.”
After 20 years at the network McEwan left in April.
SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR QUARTERS?
AFTER signing off from Ten Eyewitness News last Friday and jetting overseas today to visit his son, the Sports Tonight role would have been a plum gig for Quarters.
But fronting a weekly show doesn’t put enough piggy in the bank.
And Quarters would have had to front Ten Eyewitness News sports on weekdays under his replacement, Jennifer Keyte.
Reading the tea leaves suggests Quarters’ days at the network are over once his contract winds up at the end of the year.
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