HISTORY

Taking it’s earliest form in 2013, Spacequake Sports began producing video content for South Australian sports’ social media accounts in the form of recaps and highlight reels for Rugby League, growing through 2016 to include Hockey, Softball and Adelaide based professional teams such as the Adelaide Bite and Adelaide Adrenaline.

In late 2016 Hockey SA contracted Spacequake Sports to provide ‘livestreaming’ for their upcoming Premier League season, prompting the company to pivot from producing highlight reels to full match coverage. Our first ever livestream, as a ‘test’, was the Baseball SA Division 01 Championship Series between Port Adelaide and West Torrens hosted on our facebook page. While quite scrappy by our standards today, the livestreams were a success and we quickly transitioned all contracts to be livestreams, and once live there was no turning back.

Throughout 2017 we saw a boom in partnerships, with the likes of Rugby Union SA, SAWFL, Netball SA, Softball SA all having livestreams that year.

Come 2018, we were delivering the recordings of our livestreams for syndication to national free-to-air television via SBS, as well as locally with Adelaide’s community TV station Channel 44.

By the start of 2020 we had just completed our most comprehensive and diverse year of South Australian sports broadcasting, and were lined up for an even bigger year. But being 2020 I think we all know what is coming. Come March when the first round of COVID-19 restrictions came about, we saw our entire winter line-up cancelled within a single weekend, and all livestreams halted for several months.

On June 27th we broadcast the first Rugby Union match in the Southern Hemisphere to play since the COVID-19 shutdowns. While now with a significantly reduced line-up of local sports compared to our previous year, we delivered more Rugby Union and Netball than ever before that year. We welcomed back Softball and Baseball for the summer and joined up with Lawn Bowls as our first new client since the pandemic.

In February of 2021, we made a significant milestone within our partnership with SBS, by providing the first ever live program to appear on SBS’s On Demand streaming service, in our coverage of the inaugural Softball SA Pride Round, played between West Torrens and Walkerville. This innovation continued with the new National Hockey Super League being broadcast exclusively on SBS OnDemand. This also marked the next significant pivot in Spacequake, where we would increasingly deliver content live to established platforms like KAYO, 7+, ESPN and other dedicated OTT’s like Baseball+ and AIHL.tv and NBL1.

Thanks to our coverage of the NHSL, Spacequake were given the opportunity to become the broadcast partners for a new professional ice hockey league, the PHL. This meant for the first time, Spacequake Sports would be changing it’s identity as a South Australian sports broadcaster, and expand into new markets. In our first year outside of SA, we delivered livestreams for the PHL in all of it’s teams states, with South Australian and Victoria being exclusively covered by us. We also expanded into the ACT, with work for the CBR Brave and Canberra Calvary. We returned to basketball and covered the 2023 NBL1 National Finals, as well as the Central and South match of the rounds for the 2023 season.

In the summer of 2023/24 we continued our expansion by bringing in Sydney as a new permanent location, and now work with Lawn Bowls NSW, NBL1 East and the Sydney Bluesox.

While a lot of this growth is being driven by our partnerships with the various national leagues, we are still, at our core, livestreamers of local competitions.

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