They’ve done that jockey walk-on for a few years on the course and I think it works ok there where, basically, you can ignore it if you like or watch it if you like.
Doesn’t work on TV at all, they’d be better off spending the time looking at the horses in the paddock.
On the Bacio thing, there was no horse I less wanted to win so all the gushing over that was about as cringeworthy as the Wednesday opening segment.
HOWEVER – from a ‘health of racing’ perspective we should count our blessings that we do have terrestrial coverage.