After the North American broadcast of the 1997 AFL grand final was delayed, a bunch of footy enthusiasts responded by buying the TV rights
Ed Wyatt has the most interesting CV in Australian sport. As a TV host and radio commentator he has called or reported on it all, but fans of Australian basketball, baseball and football in particular will recognise his West Coast accent. Before that he won Emmys as a regular cast member of the sketch comedy show Almost Live! That was during his time in Seattle around the turn of the 1990s when the zeitgeist resided in the Pacific Northwest.
In between those two lives Wyatt was part of a mob that bought the rights to broadcast the AFL in the USA, a story that includes the host of The Amazing Race, a star of Whose Line Is It Anyway, the brains behind BT Sport, and, most importantly of all, Wyatt’s wife, Michelle.
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