{"id":739152,"date":"2026-06-16T01:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739152\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:36:14","slug":"darwin-supercars-not-on-free-to-air-television-for-first-time-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739152\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Supercars not on free-to-air television for first time since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS weekend\u2019s Darwin Triple Crown will mark the first Northern Territory Supercars event not shown live on free-to-air television in half a dozen years.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key outcomes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/supercars-flaunts-record-breaking-tv-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the championship\u2019s new-for-2026 broadcast deal<\/a> with Fox\/Kayo and the Seven Network was a one-round reduction in the annual live FTA component.<\/p>\n<p>That came as a means of adding value to the Fox spend, which is understood to account for about 84 percent of the purported four-year, $200 million agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/supercars-names-six-free-to-air-tv-rounds-for-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was the casualty from an FTA perspective<\/a>, with Sydney Motorsport Park, Townsville, Bathurst, Gold Coast and Adelaide all retaining their slots on Seven (while Albert Park formed part of Ten\u2019s Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix coverage).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/the-finish-line-garth-tander-autobiography-book?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tander-finish-line_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hidden Valley had become a staple of the Supercars free-to-air offering, including in each of Supercars\u2019 past five visits.<\/p>\n<p>It also had an FTA presence in 2020, but only for the first of two back-to-back rounds there during that season\u2019s COVID-affected calendar.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a Supercars race each day across this weekend\u2019s June 19-21 meeting, with all sessions live and ad-free via Fox\/Kayo.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday action will start from 10:30am AEST, with TV kick-off scheduled for 9am AEST on both Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 The Chevy Situation<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back, breaking down the latest happenings in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS weekend\u2019s Darwin Triple Crown will mark the first Northern Territory Supercars event not shown live on free-to-air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-739152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}