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A bit of a nerve putting up the cost of a monthly subscription when it has just lost one of its main tracks to SSR.
It is expensive for a standalone channel but at least some of the club days are good value.
Now if it could only get rid of McNae and his Race IQ data…
Two things I like about finding it is Racing TV pictures I’m watching on the betting app –
1. The miles per hour thingy.
2. It mutes more rapidly than ATR so the chances of having my day ruined by catching a word or two from “Shouty” or old “Plum in the gob” are much reduced.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“Now if it could only get rid of McNae and his Race IQ data…”
How much of my additional fiver is being wasted on that dross, I wonder?
Is it possible they are putting the price up so it looks like they’re bringing the price down more?
When no longer showing Irish racing due to the advertising ban?Value Is EverythingI hear one of their “experts” predicted the ground would ride close to Good at Wincanton yesterday.
The going stick suggested otherwise, with vertidraining a red herring.
Just one example of why I’d never pay for the “service.”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"It is not just the cost of RTV going up.
The cost of the “Racing Post” is increasing to £4.90 midweek and £5.20 on Saturday.
It stopped being value for money years ago.
I wonder when the channel will manage to synchronize their sound and vision. It’s been off for weeks now.
It went off a few weeks ago but it has been OK for a while on the standard definition channel (877 on Sky). I cannot get a picture on the HD channel or on several other HD channels. Although strangely I can get a picture on the SSR HD channel but not on the standard definition version.
According to Anthony Dunkley on Racing TV, Brighterdaysahead has entered herself in the Mares’ Hurdle.
She truly is talented.
McNae tipped her in his page on the RTV site. That Race IQ data was vital in finding a 1/3 chance.
After a lifetime following the sport my interest is draining by the day. This is just one aspect.
It treats it’s audience as if we can all dip into our pockets and find £30,000/year, or whatever it is, to afford a racehorse. £30 is an astonishing figure for a stand alone channel, and similarly £5+ for a daily newspaper is crazy. I have long given up on the Racing Post, and will be kicking Racing TV into touch at the end of the National Hunt season. Virgin TV subscribers have long received a sub-standard service, and nobody appears to have done anything to put that right. Both channels have a ridiculous number of awful pundits that are not worth the money. All profits go back to racing? Well it would be an awful lot more if they ditched that pile of rubbish.
If you combine that with just how many barriers there are to making any money from betting these days, and you have a sport in danger of dying. Losing punters only, thank you very much. I have made a profit something like 16/17 times out the last 20 years, but I can’t buy a winner at the moment, so just concentrating on the Festivals when you would hope most horses are fit, and bothered about winning. If I am struggling there must be a lot more punters out there in a similar state.
Excellent post stilvi, I feel the same.
And just to add, bookmakers are not interested in taking a bet from anyone who might win unless they can make money out of them.
Harry Cobden was highly praised at the weekend for a ride but the race was laid on a plate for him by Deutsch and Fox in the weighing room prior to the race, by divulging their tactics to him. Anyone from the outside looking in could consider that corrupt and it is commonplace.
An ever increasing number of jockeys and trainers are paid and sponsored by bookmakers, the same bookmakers who wont take a bet from anyone who might win. Anyone looking in might consider that corrupt. Is it allowed in any other of the top racing jurisdictions?As has been said many times in the past, the sport is run by a totally inept BHA. (The list is long)
Is it any wonder if the sport is subject to affordability checks for punters, it’s no less than the sport deserves.
ps Racing TV despite the price rise are still incapable of syncronizing sound and vision on their HD channel after many weeks. Wonder if they’ll manage it by Cheltenham?
” the same bookmakers who wont take a bet from anyone who might win.”
It is the opinion of William Woodhams that, “Punters who use the black market are choosing to destroy the sport they love”.
Haven’t bookmakers been destroying the sport for years?
McNae on Race IQ duty again. Yawn.
It’s all very well knowing that Arclight has outjumped her rivals in the past, but how does that compare to today’s opponents? That is the only useful application of this information.
I watched the first half of this Road to Cheltenham earlier. Given that they were discussing races at Ascot and Newbury, it was a bit uninspiring with only photographs to show the action.
RTV has got away with Newbury leaving but I wonder if its business model will survive if any more tracks jump ship.
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