Caroline Wilson has been poached by Seven for its AFL coverage in 2025 according to multiple sources.
A longtime Footy Classified presenter and Nine AFL commentator, Wilson will keep her column at The Age and regular commitments with Nine-owned 3AW.
But her contract with Nine runs until December with a restraint period, meaning she will likely not join Seven until mid-2025.
Seven is expected to formally announce her hiring on Wednesday.
“We have no comment, we don’t comment on speculation,” a Seven spokesman said.
But it has already been confirmed by both The Age and 3AW.
If Wilson, a Quill Lifetime Achievement winner, is attached to Talking Footy, it would be a return to her first role in television.
“I just had no confidence at all about going onto television. I found it so difficult, so nerve wracking,” she once told TV Tonight.
“My stint lasted for 3 years, working with Bruce McAvaney who was incredibly generous. If I had a big story I had to be loyal to The Age and not break it on television. It’s changed now with online journalism. But it wasn’t like that in the early start of the 2000s.”
In 2007 she joined Nine’s Footy Classified.
Her move to Seven follows Seven signing Kane Cornes, who confirmed his departure from Nine to Seven in August.
The hirings mark an aggressive play by Seven under Director of Network Sport Chris Jones, to beef up its AFL content in 2025.
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