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Gerard Whateley
Gerard Whateley (born 28 October 1974) is a Melbourne-based sports broadcaster and writer. He is regarded by many as Australia's pre-eminent sports broadcaster.
Since January 2018, he has been chief sports caller and host of the Whateley program on the sports radio station SEN1116. He is also co-host of Fox Footy's AFL 360 and an occasional sports columnist for the Herald Sun newspaper.
Whateley's sport broadcasting career has included calling major Australian and international events, including 21 AFL Grand Finals, International Cricket both in Australia and abroad, the Melbourne Cup and both swimming (London and Rio) and athletics (Paris) at the Summer Olympics. Whateley traveled to Royal Ascot in 2012 to call Australia's racehorse Black Caviar win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and wrote a book on the horse's career. He is the first and only Australian to call the Super Bowl play-by-play, a broadcast he has delivered since Super Bowl LII in Minnesota.
Whateley started his media career at the Herald Sun newspaper in 1993. His early experiences as a journalist were broad incorporating police rounds, courts and state politics before he became the paper's movie writer and editor of HIT magazine (the Herald Sun's movie and music lift out). He was later appointed senior writer for the newly released Sunday Magazine in 1998. During this period Whateley interviewed Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio among other stars.
Whateley was a foundation member of the Network 10 AFL commentary team when the broadcast rights were secured in 2001. Whateley was a panelist on the ABC Sunday morning sports show Offsiders from its inception in 2005, and was elevated to host in 2014.
In the middle of the 2010 season, Fox Footy premiered AFL 360, which featured Whateley as co-host alongside Herald Sun Chief Football Writer Mark Robinson.
In 2024, SEN and Fox Footy released Whateley on loan to Nine Network to call the Athletics at the Paris Olympic Games. He called the Men's 100 metre final - “heartstopper in Paris” – and the “rare treasure” of Jess Hull's silver medal in the Women's 1500 metres. Whateley's calling was hailed by The Australian newspaper as “cementing his status as Australia’s best sports broadcaster.” (August 12, 2024).
In 2025, Whateley began commentating AFL matches for Fox Footy on Friday nights alongside Anthony Hudson.
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Gerard Whateley
Gerard Whateley (born 28 October 1974) is a Melbourne-based sports broadcaster and writer. He is regarded by many as Australia's pre-eminent sports broadcaster.
Since January 2018, he has been chief sports caller and host of the Whateley program on the sports radio station SEN1116. He is also co-host of Fox Footy's AFL 360 and an occasional sports columnist for the Herald Sun newspaper.
Whateley's sport broadcasting career has included calling major Australian and international events, including 21 AFL Grand Finals, International Cricket both in Australia and abroad, the Melbourne Cup and both swimming (London and Rio) and athletics (Paris) at the Summer Olympics. Whateley traveled to Royal Ascot in 2012 to call Australia's racehorse Black Caviar win the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and wrote a book on the horse's career. He is the first and only Australian to call the Super Bowl play-by-play, a broadcast he has delivered since Super Bowl LII in Minnesota.
Whateley started his media career at the Herald Sun newspaper in 1993. His early experiences as a journalist were broad incorporating police rounds, courts and state politics before he became the paper's movie writer and editor of HIT magazine (the Herald Sun's movie and music lift out). He was later appointed senior writer for the newly released Sunday Magazine in 1998. During this period Whateley interviewed Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio among other stars.
Whateley was a foundation member of the Network 10 AFL commentary team when the broadcast rights were secured in 2001. Whateley was a panelist on the ABC Sunday morning sports show Offsiders from its inception in 2005, and was elevated to host in 2014.
In the middle of the 2010 season, Fox Footy premiered AFL 360, which featured Whateley as co-host alongside Herald Sun Chief Football Writer Mark Robinson.
In 2024, SEN and Fox Footy released Whateley on loan to Nine Network to call the Athletics at the Paris Olympic Games. He called the Men's 100 metre final - “heartstopper in Paris” – and the “rare treasure” of Jess Hull's silver medal in the Women's 1500 metres. Whateley's calling was hailed by The Australian newspaper as “cementing his status as Australia’s best sports broadcaster.” (August 12, 2024).
In 2025, Whateley began commentating AFL matches for Fox Footy on Friday nights alongside Anthony Hudson.