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Il be surprised if subscribers are not leaving in their droves given how the coverage has predictably deteriorated since January 1st.
Hopefully this might lead to them offering separate Jumps/flat subscriptionsWell, I’ve cancelled my sub wef 5 June and will think about resubscribing in mid Oct. I was offered either the next 6 months @ £15pm or 4 months (5/6 – 4/10) @ £10pm, which equate to the same thing. Having told RTV what is wrong with its service, I asked for 4 months free on the basis it would guarantee I would remain with them rather than possibly deciding not to resub in Oct. No joy though, the rotten swine lol.
I’ve been loathe to criticise RTV as they do a lot of things well but it’s an hour since the big race of the day and still no review or reaction to it.
Well, I tried to contact their friendly customer service team in Ireland, but the phone was engaged non-stop – no message, no indication of when you might get to talk to a friendly operative, just a relentless busy. So, went to their customer service site, which mainly just tells you how to purchase various things, but thought I’d try the ‘international’ contact email. Sent my email telling them that I’m cancelling, and got a reply saying they’d try and respond to my query within 48hrs. Signed ‘UK Customer Service’.
Paddy Brennan on Twitter has described RTV Punchestown Coverage as shocking. They have to admit they just have too much racing to show properly on one channel, and telling people to use the RTV Extra just isnt good enough.
Who is in charge of Racing TV or who owns them? As many of their subscribers (and Paddy Brennan) now agree there is too much racing for one channel will they bother to listen to us?
The parent company of RTV is RMG and here is a link to its website which is quite informative:
It will be interesting to see whether us cancellers receive an email questionnaire asking why we have left.
2.35 Punchestown 3m
2.40 Goodwood3.10 Punchestown 3m
3.15 GoodwoodOh dear they can’t delay Goodwood cos if itv they in the sh*t
I hope the irish authorities realise now how stupid they were now they could have had almost unrivaled attention on Sky today and they instead get a split screen with Goodwood all afternoon, I hope whoever is involved in Ireland is planning for 2023 to get the rights given to Sky and planning now.
Yeah 3 screen split on RTV today i have never seen that before. Wait until a few weeks time and they have NINE meetings on one day.
Back to SSR for a minute
I notice that there’s been no Sunday Debate either last week or this week
Has the show been dumped ?
Although I thought the old format of The Racing Forum on ATR was better I still miss my Sunday morning racing chat
Racing TV getting an absolute pasting on Twitter nearly 24 hours later
In terms of the Irish rights in 2023, is SSR really attractively progressing or is it just ATR in disguise?
Any split screen denies the viewer the paid-for luxury of the big picture. Casting an Extra stream affords lower picture quality and viewing an Extra stream is relatively like watching paint dry. In any case it is not entirely predictable to calculate when RTV will go to a split screen.
RTV’s coverage has become conveyor belt racing. It must add a second TV channel for no extra cost. It would not be necessary every day.
But looking at BH Monday’s racing (3 British, 2 Jumps, 1 Flat; 2 Irish, 1 Jumps, 1 Flat) a second TV channel would allow RTV to split coverage and restore viewer enjoyment. Preferably the split would be between Jumps/Flat but British/Irish would also be acceptable. And knowing this in advance the BHA could schedule off times to fit in nicely with the 2 Flat meetings on SSR (i.e. perhaps differently to how they have done now). The key thing is the viewer would have total choice of when to switch between three TV channels and be guaranteed a big screen picture of the races they want to see with the minimum of fuss.
Even with an extra RTV Channel,The BHA would still make a mess of scheduling the off times…a chimps tea party at the zoo would do a better job.
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