Sports businessman and journalist Craig Hutchison looms as kingmaker in a major shake-up of the AFL media, and is expected to join the on-air talent leaving Nine for Seven in 2025.went to air on Tuesday night, delayed 24 hours due to the Brownlow, allowing for a crisis to unfold after it was revealedon Nine , shared a house with Seven’s new head of sport, Chris Jones, when both were young television reporters.
It looked particularly uncomfortable for Lloyd, the former Essendon champion the only one of the four panellists expected to stay with Nine in 2025. Hutchison and McGuire are close friends, but there are plenty of personal and professional rivalries in an industry filled with former players and media personalities. When Hutchison suggested on air that former Western Bulldogs captain and media commentator Luke Darcy could soon turn his hand to politics with the Victorian Liberal Party, Cornes quipped, “I just became a Labor voter”, in the latest instalment of a tense relationship between the pair.