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Not a word GoldenMiller, however I was told that they would take one more payment after my cancellation as I need to give them 28 days notice or something like that.
I would love to add my voice to the number annoyed by the introduction of irish racing, but I guess they only care about the number of saps… sorry people… still bothered to pay for the service
@philwalker Stratford and Down Royal were both ATR tracks so did it bother you when they were both on the other channel with adverts as well.
There is nothing you can do about Irish Racing it is where it is RTV paid a lot of money for it and it will not be dropped just because of a minor track like Stratford.
Both channels are in a no win situation, they can’t keep everyone happy and unfortunately the racing fan doesn’t seem to be their top priority.
Clearly there’s far too many televised neetings even for two channels to comfortably show. Unless there are contractual reasons, or pressure from the bookmaking industry, it is bewildering that one day when SSR had only a single UK meeting, they insisted on having a split screen in order to show handicaps from Hong Kong live.
Nothing they could do about the clash, but surely the Hong Kong races could have been recorded and shown a few minutes later, reducing the half hour hiatus until the next live race.
I totally understand the frustrtation with RTV, it’s live coverage is definitely suffering. However, for those of us who have to work, as long they maintain their full race replay programmes, I still believe the subscription is worth paying. (Did manage to mess up Cartmel on Wednesday evening though).
The steady increase in the number of Irish fixtures each year doesn’t help, but to claim that annoying split screens are now more prevelant than they used to be when ATR had the rights is just wrong. There were countless occasions when ATR had to employ a split screen as the Irish authorities hardly ever delayed their start times to accommodate UK meetings.
I’m not sure what the relative contractual situation is, but if the live UK and Irish racing have the same priority, then RTV presumably have no choice but to show every race live as far as possible.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
@espmadrid The only solution is for racing to be split in packages like football is and each day where possible both channels get an even amount of racecourses handed out by the BHA, but this will never happen the racecourses believe they have the rights to sell their own rights and Sky and RMG don’t want to give up their own courses plus who would decide which racecourse and which race was of better grade than the others?
On the other hand we have seen what happens when the authorities sell the tv rights themselves with irish racing so what is the best way?
I notice Racing tv call their main programme The Full SP,ridiculous name I was wondering what SP stood for maybe I shouldn’t ask.
SSR Not a word about the first race time at Royal Ascot!!!
If this was RTV there’d be widespread analysis.
We need to know what the ground is.
F what the jockeys say.Value Is EverythingFirst two races faster than last year’s Queen Anne and Coventry, but SSR still calling it “softer than good”.
Value Is EverythingJust found Racing TV on my fire TV stick and also downloaded it on my smart phone. For a monthly subscription of just under £25 I thought I’d give it a trial run, previously had to rely on ITV which when I’m working most Saturdays means missing the action and losing touch with the racing world.
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But you can give them to the birds and bees.Hi Red Rum 77
How did you get Racing TV on your fire stick? I’ve tried looking for information about this on Google but not having any luck. ThanksHi Phil, first my apology for taking sometime to answer.
When I checked this site it was late, and on my smart phone so didn’t have the time to reply. Then with this heatwave I’ve been to exhausted to reply and my on air time was taken up with the weekend competitions.
Any way on my Amazon Fire Stick after losing my internet for about a week and half I checked to see if my current apps was still available since between the time of losing conncetion a payment was due to Amazon, luckily nothing was lost.
On Apps I found the Racing TV app which is free for 30 days, but to resister I had to log in to RacingTV.com/member/app and follow the instructions and finally entering a code which plays the racing on TV through my stick.
One word Royal Ascot didn’t seemed to be covered, and neither was the Northumberland Plate, so resisted to those racing on Racing TV.
If you can’t find Racing TV on your apps it might be hidden, just enter Racing TV into Search.
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But you can give them to the birds and bees.No worries for the delay in replying Red Rum, thanks for your answer.
The reason why you couldn’t find Royal Ascot and the Northumberland Plate is that these are broadcast on Sky Sports Racing not Racing TV.
Sheer lunacy on Saturday Rtv NINE fixtures SSR Zero
The BHA really need to look into taking control of the tv rights.
Agreed Steve, exactly the reason why I cancelled my subscription to Racing TV, I don’t understand the logic of having so many meetings on one day.
If it wasn’t for ITV, I expect Coral are going to be livid at the lack of attantion their meeting at Sandown is bound to attract, barely have the runners passed the winning post in the Coral Eclipse that the announcement will be “lets quickly head to Leicester for their next (tupenny/ha’penny) race…”
Exactly Phil.what kind of idiot at The BHA would schedule a race to go off 5 minutes after a group one? Especially given Sandowns tradition of running late.
Not to mention a sand race 10 minutes before😡
It’s no wonder ITVs figures are up when RTV are being drowned in mediocrityThe irony of tomorrow is 3 courses Leicester, Chelmsford and Naas all swapped to Rtv so if they had stayed it would have been 3 and 3 on both channels.
Not Naas fault they had no say but the other two I hope they realise how stupid they were transferring tomorrow and that Leicester gets sidelined all afternoon.
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