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What was the point of buying the Irish racing and not show it. There doesn’t seem any joined up thinking at ruk and the decision to go with them seems more flawed by the day.
@mickeyjp to stop the other channel from showing it, RUK have a history of buying rights then not bothering with them just to keep up the silly feud with ATR.
In the same way neither channel can even show a clip of the other channels courses and the silly rivalry that has gone on since the day both channels started instead of working together for the interests of the sport.
Another example Luke Harvey used to report from the car park at Cheltenham because RUK won’t let them into the course to broadcast even though they wouldn’t show any races.
Both channels have always been childish with each other.
This coming Saturday RUK have to squeeze in Ascot,Kempton,Haydock,Stratford &Thirsk ,it just as well they haven’t got to show the 2 Irish meetings yet.
I’m fairly happy with this, however, I can understand why people are annoyed at the loss of full blanket coverage of Irish racing on TV (especially as ATR will become Sky Sports Racing) and why folk are criticising HRI’s decision. I think RUK is the superior channel but many don’t and, with too much racing to show, will RUK remain the ‘best’ in the face of SSR which will reach more customers?:
Irish fxtures announced including a few more blank Sundays than this year and earlier evening meeting finish times and fixtures for the year slightly reduced. Seems RUK getting a little less for all that money they paid for it. ;)
British racing should follow the Irish example. The majority of Sunday racing is garbage, and I’m sure stable staff would be pleased to get home at a reasonable time rather than having to hang around for the 9.30 at Kempton Park etc.
@philwalker the uk are following suit and all weather racing will have time restricitons imposed I think it’s 8.30pm as the last race to improve staff welbeing.
Not only RUK that have issues with too many fixtures tomorrow the bozos who orgainse the fixtures have stuck Doncaster between Listowel (jumps) and Lingfield which, with 5 minutes seperating all races during the afternoon could mean Doncaster being split screen all afternoon.
Doesn’t someone who organises this get a little lightbulb in their head and think there’s a jump card 5 minutes before the feature meeting all afternoon this is likely to clash?
2m4f race 5 mins before the St Leger they have no clue.
Rebranded channel announced this morning.
I didn’t expect Gary O’Brien to jump ship but clearly they must have offered him enough money, Kevin O’Ryan will just like getting his mug on any channel.
Not many surprises for me in this announcement – all sounds good but the proof of the pudding is in the eating so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
The Ruby issue is interesting for many thinking this is the proof that he is getting ready to hang it up but he is already an existing RacingUK ambassador and (in the immediate future) I don’t see his role changing that much from what he is already doing except that you will most likely now see more of him during the flat season.
My guess is that he is probably taking the approach that Richard Dunwoody did as he got older in picking quality rides over quantity to extend his career with the TV stuff being put in place for when he does retire.
Ruby has never hidden his dislike of ATR and love of RUK he was publicly vocal when the last rights came up and wanted the Irish to goto Setanta and RUK to set up an irish channel.
Racing TV’s bland new logo already on display at Fairyhouse and on some jockey’s strips today.
Oh joys Chelmsford, just what I wanted more all weather rubbish. The same with Dundalk zzzz
Are they going to have a different coloured logo & microphone for each day of the week or for each presenter?
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
I won’t pay to watch a poor ruk presentation. They only took it to get one up on atr. Now with sky joining atr and pinching some of their tracks I think they will live to regret it. I’ll watch the racing a few minutes later on sporting life channel. One man and his dog will watch it live.
On the 1st Jan we will be able to get a better idea of what the product will look like and it will be a proper test for Racing TV as they have 4 UK meetings and 2 Irish ones.
Appreciate that I am fortunate enough to already have both channels and while both sides have their plus and minus points (mainly that they struggle to show any of the horses before the races and an odd few presenters I could do without) while I still have the means, I would not be without either channel.
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