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Hutchison returns,
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Craig Hutchison returns to Seven as network ramps up AFL programming
Craig Hutchison, CEO of Sports Entertainment Network (SEN), is set to return to the Seven Network in 2025 after an 18-year hiatus. Hutchison's return is part of a high-profile recruitment drive by Seven and expansion of its AFL programming and offering to market.
Hutchison will be at the forefront of the network's upcoming AFL news and opinion-driven program, 'The Agenda Setters'. show is scheduled to air on Monday and Tuesday nights throughout the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season on Seven and 7plus Sport. Hutchison will host the Monday night edition of the show, joined on the panel by recent Seven signings Kane Cornes and Nick Riewoldt.
Chris Jones, Seven Network Director of Sport, announced that the network will offer AFL programming seven days a week across Seven and 7plus Sport in 2025. The new AFL programming includes mid-week footy analysis headlined by new signings Kane Cornes, Craig Hutchison, and Nick Riewoldt, light-hearted footy content midweek, and 'Thursday Night Footy'.
"The Agenda Setters on Mondays and Tuesdays will be appointment viewing, and together with Rainmaker, we've assembled an incredibly experienced production team for this show to complement our unrivalled on-air lineup," Jones said. "At Seven, we can't wait to bring footy fans more content than ever before, every week of the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season on Seven and 7plus."
Seven will present AFL content every day of the week during the AFL season, including games on 23 Thursday nights, 24 Friday nights, 25 Sunday afternoons, five Sunday nights, plus marquee games and every game in the Finals Series including the Brownlow Medal and the AFL Grand Final.
Hutchison, reflecting on his return to Seven, said, "Seven is the home of free-to-air AFL, and has an unrivalled history, legacy and contribution to AFL football. These new shows will shape and set the agenda of the weekday discussion of football, which is at the heart of the game.
"And on a personal level, to return to Seven where I spent many years earlier in my career is an honour."
