Tim Lane

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For another of the same name see Tim Lane (rugby coach).

Timothy "Tim" Lane (born 1951 in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian journalist and sports commentator.

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Born in Launceston, Lane moved with his family to Devonport in 1963 and was matriculated at Devonport High School in 1969. After failing first year at Hobart University, Lane found work at an Edgell factory before trying sports commentary.

Lane began his sports broadcasting career in 1972 and was employed by the ABC in 1973, commentating NTFA Australian rules football matches.

Lane later called a wide variety of sports, including tennis, cricket, athletics and Australian rules football matches in the Victorian Football League and Australian Football League.

Lane also commentated on television in the 1980s when ABC also had the TV rights to VFL matches.

Lane was involved in a dispute in 2002 when he was set to go to Channel Nine to cover the AFL, but he quit due to Eddie McGuire's "conflict of interest" when providing commentary on games involving Collingwood, of which McGuire was the president. However, Lane moved to the Network Ten's AFL coverage, where he still commentates to this day, including Carlton games.

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Lane is also a regular columnist in The Age.

Throughout the 2006/07 Ashes series in Australia, Lane could be heard as one of the main commentators on the BBC's Test Match Special.

Tim is the father of Before the Game media personality Samantha Lane and is an avid supporter of the Carlton Football Club,

  1. ^ Tim Lane has made the right call, The Age, March 29, 2002.
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