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Is there any interest in horse racing highlights, beyond a small niche of racing fans?
Surely if you have bet on a horse, you want to watch live to see if it wins. If you can't watch live, you check online. One night this coming week the Cheltenham highlights aren't on until 1.10 am which is a disgrace - surely they could have found a slot at 8/9pm on one of the channels for them - or is this just a sulk for having lost the contract? |
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Is there any interest in horse racing highlights, beyond a small niche of racing fans?
Surely if you have bet on a horse, you want to watch live to see if it wins. If you can't watch live, you check online. |
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Racing UK HD launches on 7 March on Sky channel 432 in time for Cheltenham.
RUK looking to renew it's deals with it's racecourses until 2024 which is a lot longer than the previous tv deals. http://www.sportspromedia.com/quick_...being_a_winner |
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Bound to be plenty of sad faces at channel 4 this week as they broadcast their last Cheltenham festival.
I think it moved from the Beeb in 95 so over 20 years of excellent coverage. They really have done Cheltenham proud and been instrumental in raising its profile to what is the biggest week of the year for the sport. I hope ITV know what they are getting and treat it just as well. |
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For me this morning highlighted the problem with the recent format of The Morning Line. The big race of the day is the Champion Hurdle and yet it took them 50 minutes to get round to analysing it (having been through other races first) and then they only had 3 or 4 minutes to spend on it before they went off air
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For me this morning highlighted the problem with the recent format of The Morning Line. The big race of the day is the Champion Hurdle and yet it took them 50 minutes to get round to analysing it (having been through other races first) and then they only had 3 or 4 minutes to spend on it before they went off air
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For me this morning highlighted the problem with the recent format of The Morning Line. The big race of the day is the Champion Hurdle and yet it took them 50 minutes to get round to analysing it (having been through other races first) and then they only had 3 or 4 minutes to spend on it before they went off air
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Bound to be plenty of sad faces at channel 4 this week as they broadcast their last Cheltenham festival.
I think it moved from the Beeb in 95 so over 20 years of excellent coverage. They really have done Cheltenham proud and been instrumental in raising its profile to what is the biggest week of the year for the sport. I hope ITV know what they are getting and treat it just as well. Quote:
Pathetic wasn't it. And 5 minutes on Go karts
Personally I think C4 used to do a good job but went downhill a couple of years ago when they changed producers, presenters etc. |
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Aren't you contradicting yourself a little there ? Saying how well C4 cover it and then slating them.
Personally I think C4 used to do a good job but went downhill a couple of years ago when they changed producers, presenters etc. It was posted before the morning line and that daft piece on go karts, which they did to promote motor racing. The main show is fine week in week out, the morning has really suffered because I believe they don't know what it should be there for. Still thanks for pointing it out Darren, the internet was made for people like you. :-| |
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Charles Sale reports that John Francome has turned down an approach from ITV. Good of the Daily Mail to clarify that John's the one on the right of the picture
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...017-offer.html |
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Simon Holt at his best yesterday in Queen Mother Champion Chase, could feel emotion in his call. Brilliant.
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Simon Holt at his best yesterday in Queen Mother Champion Chase, could feel emotion in his call. Brilliant.
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Slightly, my original post was to highlight what a good job they have done with Cheltenham over a 20 year period, their main show was still excellent yesterday.
It was posted before the morning line and that daft piece on go karts, which they did to promote motor racinyg. The main show is fine week in week out, the morning has really suffered because I believe they don't know what it should be there for. Still thanks for pointing it out Darren, the internet was made for people like you. :-| I stand by what I said too. C4 Cheltenham coverage is a shadow of its former self. When it was Fat Al, Thommo, Francs etc you had some humour too. Too slick nowadays, which is one reason why viewing figures for C4 Racing are not what they were. |
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Im just miffed Countdown isnt on this week, always watch the repeat in the mornings to wake me up before going to work, having to make do with BBC Breakfast yesterday and today (and more than likely tomorrow and Monday)
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Don't know if you are having a dig at me.
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Maybe, or maybe I'm complimenting you at the lengths you've gone to, to pick me up on something?
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Hardly Sherlock Holmes stuff was it ? Two posts next to each other one saying one thing, one saying another. Seems to have upset you though. Didn't mean it to.
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Don't know if you are having a dig at me.
I stand by what I said too. C4 Cheltenham coverage is a shadow of its former self. When it was Fat Al, Thommo, Francs etc you had some humour too. Too slick nowadays, which is one reason why viewing figures for C4 Racing are not what they were. |
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Did Nina carberry win or pendleton disgraceful by ch 4.
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Did Nina carberry win or pendleton disgraceful by ch 4.
On the other hand, I think most would agree that Pendleton's involvement will have raised the sport's profile among people who don't generally follow it, so not surprised that Channel 4 played it up. They weren't the only ones - this evening's Five Live Sport (7pm) had a deconstruction of how well Pendleton had done that was at least as long as the discussion of the rest of the day's racing, and barely a mention of Nina Carberry. Carberry got plenty of coverage of her own over the four days on Channel 4 though, with a piece filmed at her home and the team playing up her chances in the Cross-country race. |
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Did Nina carberry win or pendleton disgraceful by ch 4.
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I disagree. They had to give Victoria Pendleton coverage because she was the mainstream interest, but they gave Nina Carberry plenty of credit and made effort to stress she was the real story. I thought they got the balance spot-on. And as for any criticism of her ride from brundlebud, she was riding a 16-1 shot so it's pure hindsight to say she should have won- she rode very well in my opinion.
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Did Nina carberry win or pendleton disgraceful by ch 4.
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Actually it was 28/1 but i agree with you completely. All these comments ( in Horse Racing ) from experts who say a more experienced jockey would have won. Nobody knows that as the horse would have been ridden totally different from the start, not from the last fence.
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And as for any criticism of her ride from brundlebud, she was riding a 16-1 shot so it's pure hindsight to say she should have won- she rode very well in my opinion.
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