Three upcoming rounds of the V8 Supercars can be shown live on 7mate after the Communications Minister delisted the events from the Anti-Siphoning List (Image: V8 Supercars Australia)

Three upcoming rounds of the V8 Supercars season will be able to be shown live on Seven’s multichannel 7mate, after an agreement was reached with the government to remove the events from the anti-siphoning list.

Currently, all rounds of the V8 Supercars season are placed on the anti-siphoning list, resulting in the sport fighting against the AFL for live coverage on Seven. Under existing anti-siphoning rules, listed events must be shown first on a network’s “analogue channel and core digital channels”.

The chairman of V8 Supercars Australia, Tony Cochrane, announced on the sport’s Facebook page that an agreement had been reached with the Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy to delist three upcoming races.

The agreement covers the races in Darwin, Townsville and at Queensland Raceway near Ipswich, allowing the events to be shown live on 7mate in cases where coverage would clash with Seven’s AFL coverage on the network’s primary channel.

Under the previous arrangements, some coverage aired live on 7mate, but the races shown on the main channel were on delay and compressed in order to accommodate Seven’s AFL commitments.

Cochrane last month expressed his displeasure at the “multichannel experiment” that the sport had endured with Seven, arguing that fans were missing out on the action as a consequence.

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