Kane Cornes and his colleagues at SEN have dominated the 2024 Australian Football Media Association (AFMA) Awards. The awards were held in Melbourne last night at Marvel Stadium which also saw two members of the media awarded AFMA Life Membership awards. Those honours went to Fox Footy presenter Sarah Jones and journalist-turned-media executive Craig Hutchison .
Kane Cornes, who signed a multi-year contract with Seven earlier this month, took home the major awards. Cornes is seeing out the remainder of the 2024 AFL season with his current employers including, Nine, The Age, and AFL.com.
au. He will continue to work with SEN after he starts work with Seven. • Alf Brown Award for best overall media performer for his work with The Age, Nine, SEN and AFL Media.
• Lou Richards Medal for former or current league footballer working in the media. • Best opinion/analysis in radio, TV or digital. AFMA judges said of Cornes’ win in the Alf Brown Award: “No one has had a bigger presence in football this year, via television, radio and newspapers, than Kane Cornes.
No one. Now or in the past.” Other broadcasters working for SEN honoured last night included Gerard Whateley and Tom Morris .
As mentioned above, company co-founder and chief executive Craig Hutchison was given Life Membership. 3AW won the award for Best Radio Program and had a table boasting current and past broadcasting greats. Som of the 3AW football team at the AFMA Awards including Anthony Hudson, Jimmy Bartell,.