- Eddie McGuire has taken on role with Channel 7
- Via his production company JAM TV
- Will remain on the books of Channel 9
Eddie McGuire has been with Channel 9 for so long he is part of the furniture – but it hasn’t stopped him taking on a shock role with Channel 7.
McGuire, 60, is the boss of production company JAM TV, who have secured rights to produce two new AFL talk shows during the 2025 season on the rival free-to-air network.
It is understood McGuire’s team will produce the Sunday Footy Feast, which will air each week following Channel 9’s long-standing Sunday Footy Show.
A second show will also run following Channel 7’s live footy coverage on Sunday afternoons, which according to News Corp will be dubbed The Wash Up.
Initially a statistician for the AFL and cricket reporter for the now defunct Herald in Melbourne, media mogul McGuire was then a cadet sports reporter at Channel 10 – before shifting to Nine in 1993.
The former Collingwood president and one-time Nine CEO has been the long-standing host of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? since 1999 – and the workaholic is known in some circles as ‘Eddie Everywhere’ given he is across so many projects.
McGuire’s pending role at Seven has raised eyebrows in some quarters given how outspoken he was when Footy Classified colleagues Kane Cornes and Caroline Wilson officially jumped ship in November to work under Craig Hutchison next season.
He even labelled Seven the ‘Channel Copycat’ and declared he wasn’t threatened by AFL premiership winner Cornes and veteran journalist Wilson defecting to the enemy.
Eddie McGuire has taken on a role with Channel 7 ahead of the 2025 AFL season (pictured, with wife Carla)
‘Eddie Everywhere’ is the boss of production company JAM TV, who have secured rights to produce two new AFL talk shows on the rival free-to-air network next year
‘End of the [footy] season, you get rid of the list-cloggers and you move the new superstars in,’ he told Today recently.
‘And that’s what we are doing. The Footy Classified with Caroline Wilson and Craig Hutchison. That started 18 years ago.
‘And it’s been fantastic. And it’s great that Channel Copycat [Seven] is just taking something we’ve done for 18 years and putting it on air.
‘So that’s okay. While they are doing that, we’ll come up with something fresh, new and exciting for next year and do what we always do.’
McGuire also pointed out he was previously worked for Channel 10 during their Melbourne Cup racing coverage – and referenced the likes of Sam Pang, Hamish Blake and Andy Lee being employed by multiple networks simultaneously.
And despite the intense competition that awaits between McGuire and Hutchinson when it comes to ratings – the pair are said to be firm friends.
Whether that is the case come September next year remains to be seen.
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