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I very much doubt it. ITV want to get away from the C4 style of coverage now. C4 coverage wasn't succeeding at the end so why copy that ? They have gone for their own team ( mainly ) with just a sprinkling from 4. Those they have from 4 aren't ones who have been there for donkeys years like McGrath, Holt, Stevenson etc
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Personally I think they got the tone wrong with the last 30 mins but there you go.
As nice as it was to see some old clips Channel 4 racing is ending not horse racing in general! You'd have watched that closing montage and thought it was the end of racing itself it had little to do with channel 4 racing. It should have for me covered the people who made channel 4 racing what it was for 32 years but it seemed the current production team wanted to forget anything prior to 2012 existed on that front. |
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Interesting that the presenter of the 'freeview' coverage of Newbury on Saturday on RUK is Nick Luck
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Wouldn't surprise if he ventures back there as a full time presenter again.
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IMHO ITV have bought the rights solely in the hope of getting ten million viewers for one horse race in early April. My guess is that figure wont be achieved and the network will be looking to terminate the contract before the 4 years are up
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IMHO ITV have bought the rights solely in the hope of getting ten million viewers for one horse race in early April. My guess is that figure wont be achieved and the network will be looking to terminate the contract before the 4 years are up
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Theres far cheaper ways of getting 10m viewers for 1 hour than that. There's plenty of value in the contract imo, particularly thanks to the rise in onlinebookmaking. I remember a few years ago the jockey club had to pay c4 to show racing. As it is, the contract allows itv plenty of live sport to fill daytime schedules-something which will be useful going forward as more people use catch up services to access their non live programmes.
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Agreed. This is about filling 500 hours of television and knowing that you can get sponsorship to pay for it, and advertising to make profit from it.
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I very much doubt it. ITV want to get away from the C4 style of coverage now. C4 coverage wasn't succeeding at the end so why copy that ? They have gone for their own team ( mainly ) with just a sprinkling from 4. Those they have from 4 aren't ones who have been there for donkeys years like McGrath, Holt, Stevenson etc
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Im sure that further down the line Holt will appear on ITV when they start taking course commentaries.
I'm sure the courses have already started the stampede for Holt's services. |
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Alice Plunkett will be part of the ITV team.
Probably not, as he will be the on-course commentator at the big meetings, where Richard Hoiles will be doing the same for ITV. It has already been reported that Holt will be commentating at Ascot's next two meetings (which both have Grade 1 races) and it will be a major surprise if he's not calling at the Cheltenham Festival, the Grand National, The Derby, Royal; Ascot and Newmarket's big meetings. I'm sure the courses have already started the stampede for Holt's services. |
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Personally I think they got the tone wrong with the last 30 mins but there you go.
As nice as it was to see some old clips Channel 4 racing is ending not horse racing in general! You'd have watched that closing montage and thought it was the end of racing itself it had little to do with channel 4 racing. It should have for me covered the people who made channel 4 racing what it was for 32 years but it seemed the current production team wanted to forget anything prior to 2012 existed on that front. |
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Only mentions of the IMG era during the last 30 minutes.
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I thought C4's goodbye section was a bit of a damp squid with little mention of the pre-IMG era which were imo its best days.
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Holt has tweeted that he will be pcalling races for both Racing UK and Sky Sports' ATR in future, in addition to his course commentating.
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There is Horse Racing on STV on New Years day
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There is Horse Racing on STV on New Years day
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Holt has tweeted that he will be pcalling races for both Racing UK and Sky Sports' ATR in future, in addition to his course commentating.
I wouldn't be surprised if he is the most sought after commentator in any sport at the moment |
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Holt has tweeted that he will be pcalling races for both Racing UK and Sky Sports' ATR in future, in addition to his course commentating.
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RUK and ATR don't have separate callers do they ? They take the course commentary
it's not unusual to hear the commentator on the public address when they 'go up to the comm box' and of course it means they take each other presenters when they are on commentary duty as quite a few of the presenters double up as commentators |
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The on-course commentator is hooked up to the TV coverage though as if they cross to the commentator before the race start they usually say "thank you" etc and then the PA kicks in as they set off.
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The Opening Show http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/n...e-opening-show
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More press coverage for ITV http://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/20...ack-spotlight/
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...man-racing-itv |
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Richard Hoiles: 'We can be a little bit less precious. I can see it being more two-handed in terms of commentaries. I can see us seeking views of Tony McCoy and Mick Fitzgerald during the quiet period of a three-mile novice chase when not much is happening.'
http://www.racinguk.com/news/article...-itv challenge |
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There's a "Chamberlin told The Telegraph..." quote in that article which looks remarkably similar to a Chamberlin quote that was distributed by the Press Association (and which has been attributed to PA in other articles)
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Richard Hoiles: 'We can be a little bit less precious. I can see it being more two-handed in terms of commentaries. I can see us seeking views of Tony McCoy and Mick Fitzgerald during the quiet period of a three-mile novice chase when not much is happening.'
http://www.racinguk.com/news/article...-itv challenge |
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