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There’s too many courses for all British racing to be on one channel Yeats.
Races rarely if ever clash these days, just the occasional Bank Holiday or very busy Saturday and even then most would be unable to see two races simultaneously even if they are on 2 different channels.
Have you heard of red button and interactive technology, we’re not still in the dark ages.
Horse racing is only worthy of one specialist subscription channel, there are two because it means more people can get their fingers in the pie.
Maybe a solution would be for one to have all the British and the other to have all the Irish.
Ricky, did you do your brains on one of leg locks tips to have such a vendetta against them? Frankly, your views are ridiculous. I don’t particularly care for ITV but I vote with the remote!
Friday nights in the winter are great when Get In is on. Great fun, banter aplenty and Wolves often serves up many hackable winners.
Punchestown coverage was superb last week as always. Imagine back in the 80s/90s, the only time we got to see the Irish stars was at Chelters. You must be bonkers. In the nicest possible way of course.
There’s too many courses for all British racing to be on one channel Yeats.
Races rarely if ever clash these days, just the occasional Bank Holiday or very busy Saturday and even then most would be unable to see two races simultaneously even if they are on 2 different channels.
Have you heard of red button and interactive technology, we’re not still in the dark ages.
Horse racing is only worthy of one specialist subscription channel, there are two because it means more people can get their fingers in the pie.
Maybe a solution would be for one to have all the British and the other to have all the Irish.
"Races rarely if ever clash these days, just the occasional Bank Holiday or very busy Saturday"
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…And what about those "very busy Saturdays" Yeats? Which is pretty much every Saturday. It’s no good being ok for 6 days and then a complete f^&* up for THE most important day of the week… And we all know how a race can be delayed, making a mess of schedules. The less time between races on a TV channel, the more any delay f^&*s up schedules. Even with just three meetings on at the same time leaves just 10 mins between start times… and allowing time for running a staying chase there’s no time at all for delays and no time at all for previews and reviews."Have you heard of red button and interactive technology, we’re not still in the dark ages".
Have you heard of question marks??
Just because the red button is there, does not mean it is financially benneficial to use it.With fewer people watching those races on a Saturday there are important questions you need to answer Yeats: Are you really suggesting we have important racing on the RED Button? How are sponsers going to react to fewer viewers? And how much money will be lost to the Levy due to less money gambled on these races?
Are RUK supposed to effectively finance two programmes? One for the A grade and another for B?
Value Is EverythingI usually tune in to ATR for the Irish and French racing, mainly the interesting maiden races for horses who could be aimed at group races in time, and any actual group races themselves. For that purpose the channel serves me well enough.
You can only broadcast the meetings you possess the rights to and if you are not charging a subscription fee you need advertising to pay the way.
You CAN watch Racing UK for free, via the pirate’s favourite medium, the internet, but if everyone were to do that the channel wouldn’t last very long.
I don’t think ATR is anywhere near as bad as Ricky makes out. You can watch some good quality racing without paying and it’s not as if you are nailed to a chair with your eyes superglued open during the low level stuff. If you are watching on Sky you can always crank up the channel number by about 500 and watch some silicone enhanced dolly bird spilling out of a low cut top instead of ogling Luke (Churchill, Oh Yes) Harvey on ATR.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Umpteen reasons to like ATR, including, Sean Boyce, Matt Chapman (terrific interviewer), Gary OBrien and Kevin Blake (weren’t they a pleasure to listen to at Punchestown, total expertise), Hugh Taylor, The Form Factor, The Irish Angle, The Sunday Forum, the website and iPad app (at least 10.5 light years ahead of the schoolboy RUK offering), free replays, free video content and complete coverage of the holy trinity of Wolver, Lingers and South-well.
They were very good to Fallon on his comeback in 2009.
Congratulations and salutations and long may they reign.
#ATR
The Problem I have with ATR is that some barnpot decided to stop showing the racing review uninterrupted every morning and replace it with racing news every hour repeating the same as an hour before.
Having Said that they did a fine job of punchestown and their website is excellent.The Problem I have with ATR is that some barnpot decided to stop showing the racing review uninterrupted every morning and replace it with racing news every hour repeating the same as an hour before.
Exactly.
If it ‘aint broke don’t fix it. It was a great channel before the changes and move to MK.
I could live with an advert break between meetings on the review if they’re desperate for the revenue, but those "news bulletins" are a complete waste of time.
Half the time is spent looking at the highlights from the day before – Surely that’s what the review is for! The other half is briefly looking ahead to the days racing – Isn’t that covered in the Preview programme?
Do we want this four times every morning? No, 10 minutes at 9.00am is fine until 12.00.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Michael , have often been to Listowel …more for the coursing …its Master Myles country ….as for Punch , I first went there in 1956….
But you get my drift about the dross channel nonetheless
A bit before my time I’m afraid
Hope you get the opportunity to visit us again:) I presume those were the days when the coursing was at the racecourse, they have their own field nowadays.Umpteen reasons to like ATR, including, Sean Boyce, Matt Chapman (terrific interviewer), Gary OBrien and Kevin Blake (weren’t they a pleasure to listen to at Punchestown, total expertise), Hugh Taylor, The Form Factor, The Irish Angle, The Sunday Forum, the website and iPad app (at least 10.5 light years ahead of the schoolboy RUK offering), free replays, free video content and complete coverage of the holy trinity of Wolver, Lingers and South-well.
They were very good to Fallon on his comeback in 2009.
Congratulations and salutations and long may they reign.
Another bookie apologist ….as if we needed one . why not include sir Robert ….endless adverts ….10 second delay in running , constantly putting punters away ////in short promoting the bookies agenda
Shame on you
its crap and you know it
I have decided to ignore you from now on Cav , just cannot take you seriously anymore
good luck with the dross channel , enjoy it whilst you can
IMO
Like it or loathe it ATR has it’s place and for anyone with an interest in the Jumps calendar it provides us in the UK with excellent coverage of the Irish scene with is vital to anyone with an ante post interest for Cheltenham.
I think the coverage is pretty good but do not subscribe to RUK so other than the race replays on web have nothing to compare against.
Anyone wanting it to ‘fade away’ is pretty moronic. If you don’t like it – don’t tune in. Simples.
If you’ve got an interest in a race at Towcester or Dundalk, would you rather watch it or not ?Thank you. Some of us don’t have RUK so ATR is what I watch when I can. The ads are a pain, but most of the presenters are ok. It shows a lot of racing………end of. I’m happy enough. And if I’ve been working I can watch the replays the next morning. If you don’t like it, switch the bugger off!
I agree Burroughill. I can only watch ATR because the OH would kill me if I subscribed to RUK on top of our Sky subscription. If I want my racing fix that’s what I have to watch, end of story.
Do people really think that RUK would pick up other racecourses and show them? No, not really as they’d run into the problem of having too many races to show in too short a timeframe. 3 meetings max is about comfortable, any more and things become chaotic. So how on earth could they cope with showing races from say another 25 courses once ATR has gone. Not to mention any Irish racing coverage to be squeezed in too. How would said courses survive if they’re not picked up for TV coverage of any kind? They won’t, so we’ll lose even more courses than we have already. I want to see Hereford and Folkestone back in action, not more courses being dug up for housing estates.
Nobody makes you watch ATR. If you don’t like it, fine, I’m not that keen on the non-racing bits either. But remember some of us don’t have deep pockets to pay for an extra subscription to watch RUK.
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