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True, TWM, RTV did have Kevin O’Ryan on the phone for 5 minutes during Mark Your Card, however, that’s a separate programme.
Yes, Steve, SSR deserves the bigger criticism this weekend just by virtue of the fact it offered Jumps fans sweet FA.
A quiet week with fixtures off until today when I was annoyed by the amount of adverts immediately before each race at Doncaster. Somebody tell SSR this is the Jumps season and Doncaster is one of the channel’s biggest tracks – is the course happy with the coverage? In addition, SSR must choose its female presenters based on looks. It’s all very well to misidentify Modern Warfare as Modern Wayfair once before the race but to do so repeatedly after the horse has been identified correctly dozens of times by Mark Johnson during the contest which it won? Like ATR, SSR is cheap rubbish.
Meanwhile, a rare case of RTV being burdened by ex-ATR commentator Anthony Ennis at Huntingdon. He is generally poor but surpassed his usual inadequacy today by such means as: in more than one race saying Horse A was in front of Horse B when it clearly was behind, not identifying fallers quickly enough – in one case struggling to name an early unseat right in front of him in the straight and in full view on the outside until two fences later, failing to spot that a huge gamble had refused to race. Ennis joins Thompson and Cattermole in the bottom three!
@goldenmiller34 why wouldn’t Doncaster be happy with the coverage it is run by ARC who still own nearly half the shares in Sky Sports Racing?
I said why above, Steve. On RTV Doncaster would have benefited today from a competent presenter and pundit on course with several minutes of uninterrupted build up to each race as befits a Jumps meeting at a premier track in the middle of the Jumps season.
@goldenmiiler34 you are aware of the court case Doncaster lost when it wanted out of it’s RUK contract why on earth would they go anywhere near Rtv again?
The council lost a lot of money fighting that case.No, Steve, I’m not aware of the history. Why on earth would Doncaster/council want to break a contract and why would they think they could do so without penalty?
@goldenmiller34 As I remember an employee at the racecourse signed up to racing uk without getting the council’s approval as they own the track, it was always the intention of the council to sign up to ATR.
Doncaster council argued this employee had no right to sign the contract, RUK sued and won, Doncaster council gave Arena a 99 yr contract to run the racecourse and to stop RUK showing the course the whole racecourse was rebuilt and reopened in time for the contract expiring and moving over to ATR.
Correction it was the chief executive
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/High+Court+rules+for+Racing+UK+in+Doncaster+case%3b+Council+to+appeal…-a0125937291Good grief!
RUK rightly won as it dealt with the chief executive in good faith.
So, the council wanted to give Arena a 99 year lease in exchange for getting the track done up. Doncaster benefited there but is now stuck with inferior coverage! If SSR improves and gains more courses Doncaster will be even more squeezed.
@goldenmiller34 All racecourse tv rights are settled for a long time now nothing will change in the next four years, as for Doncaster it probably benefited from the dispute as I doubt there would have been the extensive redevelopment of the grandstand if it had won the rights.
They had an excuse to bring the track up to standard and kick RUK in the face at the same time as for whether RUK were right it depends if the chief executive had ultimate authority to sign such a deal against the owners wishes.
Three race meetings in France today and Sky Sports Racing showing none of them, their contract with the French tracks said they =had the rights to all French meetings so you would think when they only have one UK meeting they might add some French racing.
Sky are going to pick and choose which french fixtures they are going to broadcast, presumably when UK are blank days. If you look at this link it tells you towards the bottom they will broadcast over 200 french fixtures.
https://www.skysports.com/racing/news/12426/11572246/sky-sports-unveil-new-racing-team
If all the meetings survive on Saturday with the extra meeting at Chelmsford Rtv will have races going off every 5 mins including Leopardstown stuck between Chelmsford and Musselburgh.
Leopardstown will get no preview or post race analysis.
Surely it will on the Leopardstown dedicated ‘channel’ that will be set-up and can access via the app or online.
If that isn’t the case, huge questions need asked.
Steve, Kev – it looks like RTV will dodge a bullet on Saturday due to the weather. Certainly I think Leopardstown would and still will have a dedicated show, though online (to cast) as opposed to a second TV channel per se.
The original schedule had a gap between Sandown and Leopardstown but ridiculously Leopardstown, Musselburgh and Wetherby going off at 5 minute intervals. To avoid a multitude of split screens on the main channel I was going to work out a viewing pattern that enabled me to see race finishes clearly. I think races at Musselburgh and Wetherby would have been held a bit, the latter possibly by up to 5 minutes, but this would have been complicated by the demands of terrestrial coverage and things like the four miler at Musselburgh. Frankly, I think it would have been a joke, certainly a minimum of pre- and post-race stuff on the main channel.
I hope some of the lost meetings/races can be salvaged but Wetherby and Musselburgh appear doomed and Sandown dubious. Only when knowing that have the BHA invented a meeting at Chelmsford so there was never any danger of five meetings on RTV. However, it defies belief that Chelmsford would be shoved in-between the two most likely meetings to survive, Sandown and Leopardstown, and 5 minutes before the most likely of all. Perhaps the Irish track will push back its start times by 5 minutes. Also, am I correct in thinking that if Leopardstown can’t race on Sat & Sun it will do so on the next two days that the track is fit?
Of course a sensible think to have done would have been for Southwell, Wolverhampton or Newcastle to have had an extra meeting but of course you cannot add an extra meeting just because it is on Rtv or SSR so I suppose Chelmsford is next in line of the all weathers.
Out of curiosity I wonder if Bob Cooper, the cameraman, the commentator and the tractor driver are the only 4 people at Southwell today.
Nice of SSR to send Bob Cooper all the way up north for surely they have a presenter who lives nearer the track.
I see that start times at Chelmsford have been changed to better fit in and that ITV is showing 3 live races from Leopardstown. The latter would not have happened if the Irish rights were still with ATR.
@goldenmiller34 why not I am sure c4 showed Irish racing occassionally while it was also under ATR contract.
This is just RMG blustering that their deal has helped I am sure if the meeting had been with ATR they wouldn’t have objected to itv showing it after all they don’t object to any of their courses being shown on itv.
To be honest Rtv will be the ones who lose viewers as people won’t need to change to them from itv unless you like Chelmsford probably a publicity stunt by Rtv “look itv viewers you can see all the irish on our channel just pick up the phone and pay us some money.”
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