are people paying £20 a month for racing uk?

i wont it but refuse to pay that much for it , rip off!

wot no Lampus??

Yes.

Paid it for March an April as i enjoy their coverage of the big nh festivals. Rang up to cancel to day and found out i have to give 30 days notice so im stuck with it for another Month :(

Terrific value. Far better than the £22 I have to fork out for at the races.

Muqbil
You really are a** of grade 1 status.

T0sser

I agree with Muqbil - RUK is terrific value.

What's bothering you, telepathic? Come on get it off your chest lad.

FACT. RP reported that RUK has more than 40K subscribers even more than when they 1st launched in 2,004.

FACT. If that is true RUK not affected by globall financial downturn

FACT. RUK costs about the same as a barely decent bottle of win

;)

You come up with the same old sh*t every time the subject is raised your mantra ad na

I must sound like a right old bore......

Enjoy your evening :)

Great Shyte you wouldnt know a FACT if it kicked you up the ar*E

why are people so aggressive on this site ??

fuc*king madmen!

** off hearts you **ing tit!

I do, and its VFM (cheaper than buying a daily paper).

Muqbil - thanks for the opportunity to agree with you - "right old bore" - accurate statement eventually.

ruk do a good job of covering racing well of that there is no doubt but they need to be aligned to something else like they where with setanta otherwise the only people who will watch it are the very insular people who belong to the racing world.most people unless they need it have better things to do with their money in the current economic climate,where are their future viewers going to come from if they exclude anyone new from even seeing racing.

The Optician 26 Apr 21:46


**** off hearts you ******* tit!




i'll get my coat!

scarecrow = sense

I couldnt ever pay them money after how they treated their customers who supported them right from day 1 of the original launch.

Hearts 1874 ill even get your coat for you .

you know i was joking hearts.

scarecrow makes sense. setanta used to be about £10-£15 and included ruk as well, which was value and people who wouldnt necessarily bet on racing may have watched. now, at £20 with none of the other sports thrown in, only hardcore racing fans will pay for it.

they should team up with espn ?? i did have ruk when it was setanta , was really good coverage! but £20 just for one channel is steep!

that would make a lot of sense hearts if it could be made to happen but i would not hold your breath.

If RUK was free to view. Would the benefits and advertising to racing outweigh the lost subs money?

more people would bet in the shops, go home to watch the racing
more levy

Scarecrow is spot on. All very well for the people who are full time now , but nobody goes from zero knowledge/interest to being full time overnight.

If i'd never seen Racing on TV i doubt i'd ever have had a bet on it , and there was a hell of a lot more on BBC/C4 at the time i became interested . I certainly wouldn't have paid £20 a month on the off chence i might develop a liking for it, and no one will today, so who is going to be following it in 30 years time if things carry on like this?

Get it from Nov-April for Cheltenham build up and Aintree,then stop it till following November,costs 10 per month then over a year!!
At least they dont make us have a yearly contract!!

Can't see what all the fuss is about? £5 a week is peanuts compared to what most of you stake/lay a day.
Anyway, we've had this thread about a hundred times now, move on......

In answer to the question, I'm seriously paying £20 a month for racing uk.

Is there a way around it ?

if you cant afford 20 a month give up betting and just post on this forum all day and have the very occasional 2 pound bet

66p a day is too expensive :0

The point being missed is that £20 per month for one channel to the person who has a passing interest is ludicrous.

Like cycling? well tune into the cycling channel for £20 per month. Doesnt happen, cycling is covered very well on Eurosport

Like Football? Tune into the football channel for £20 per month. Of course not, Football part of Sky Sports. Even Espn have it bundled with other stuff.

So the questions are

Should racing have a stand alone channel which it charges £20 per month?
or
Should racing be part of a bundled package?( as earlier pointed out by scarecrow)

Was RUK watched more whilst under Setanta's umbrella?

Personally, racing should be behind the red button. Several screens with each meeting covered. Parade ring on another screen. Live market on another and so on.

I agree with Muqbil ,Ruk is great value for twenty notes a month.

Racings channel for Racing.


.

One can say lots of things about RUK but compared to other pay tv it certainly can't be called good value! Do they still have minute long plugs for bookies every 5 mins?

Yes, unfortunately

those adds keep the price down

ruk - the racing peoples channel - as lampus would say.

I thought they were going to stop them when they bought subs in? If it was 1 racing channel that showed all the racing (on red button for clashes) that gave insights into racing - showed/made documentaries, stable tours etc regularly and had no adverts then £20 would just about be worth it but as it is the odd time i watch it now it still looks cheap (no matter how good some think the analysis is).

Racing is for toffs like us. Do you really want a channel that council house, benefit **s can watch? I certainly don't. £20 for 20 days is priced perfectly just above the chav's media budget. ;)

One channel would eventually drop cards, you would end up with three or four live cards a day with adverts,the rest would be shown as recordings later in the day.

Yup

I ain't home most days but record it and make notes every night... invaluable.

It's all relevent I spoze but if you punt I consider 80p ish per day to be ok.

Why anyone should think it should be cheaper is beyond me.

I hear all those saying it was cheper before but look what happened to that lot at Sultana ;)

OK value in my eyes and whoever they put on the bright sparks on here would slaughter so that argument is dead imo

Don't like it... don't buy it...simples...IT IS NOT YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE IT FREE ;)

To me it's like people complaining that they can't buy their food in M&S like I do. Tory Govt coming so nothing wrong with a Tory TV Channel like RUK.

If you don't fancy £20 a month go and live in North Korea ;)

Joker - the thing is it doesn't encourage people to racing and keeps it very insular, it's not a question of if somebody who gambles regularly thinks it's good value but if somebody new to racing thinks it is imo. If you were looking to choose pay tv (as many are atm) and you were moderately interested in racing would you consider £20 value?

I have just payed the online one £10 a month to see what its like only took 1 month though.

tenner a month on internet good value imo

it,s agreat better than that awful atr allthough something should be done about the blank days, £20 no prob

no spyker,look at Premiership football,its very popular regardless of the fact you have to watch it on tv.

Pay2wtch it.

Expensive compared to the setanta package but as a serious racing fan, or fan of serious facing, you can't afford to be without it (as opposed to a daily RP which costs more than twice as much).

My major complaint is their complete inability to return calls or deal with problems.

Can't believe there are so many people who seem to think £5 a week is expensive. What do bet in?
Pennies ?

yyiippeeeeee
I See ruk got racing on today

It still going then

in excess of 40,000 subscribers lampus including you ;)

Zab - prem football has a massive viewing public so could pretty much charge what they wanted but even if there was only 1 channel that showed all the matches would they charge much more than £20 a month? Racing simply doesn't have the viewing public to justify £20 to most casual observers and at that price won't attract (m)any newcomers - why didn't rfc try and get ruk to give this week free as part of the free racing week?.

i wish they charged 20 a month to use betfair it would have saved me a fortune

ruk should be means tested imo
lot of O.A.Ps could have it free

plus those in other poor groups

Chemical, I would gladly pay £40 a month to have all the racing on RUK instead of half of it on ATR. This is because I am a full time punter and the coverage is much more professional and helpful on RUK, plus the pictures are a bit faster so if I want to adjust my position in running then RUK is also better for doing that. When somebody is playing for hundreds of pounds a race £20 is a drop in the ocean. I hope this answers your question.

SPYKER

A dedicated racing channel will NEVER entice a new audience mate ..it is too specialist to do so..FACT

Mainstream TV is the only medium that will do that or getting people to the course and treating them properly.

On course thieving bookies raping them at every turn will not help and piiiss stained toilets along with £4 a pint and £5 for a greasy burger will not either...

How about attracting the earlt 20's and teens with special offers

nick luck is worth 20 quid all on his own imo

Personally, for 66p per day I cant complain.

Good those who say s £20 is nothing
ruk can charge double
so others can watch it for free
everyone s a winner

ruk have a lot of pundits with tipping lines.

Give us a tip comrade H

bk hng parliament imo.

People who are too cheap to pay for RUK should be banned from starting the same boring threads every saturday about what sh*te C4 or BBC coverage is...we allknow it that is why we have RUK ... and to watch on the days when it is not covered by C4,BBC, or ATR.

Lampus,

THEY are chucking cash at the area of the Indian film Industry - all brokers been put on alert this morning.

thanks for that 4/7 tip, zeb

4/7 ? twas 5-1 on here when i tipped ,now 7-2.

Why cant they make more shows other than just showing endless repeats on blank days? Stable tours, profiles, behind the scenes, classic races/festivals etc, something, anything.

If you're a serious punter, 20 quid is fine for a few hours action every other day or whatever it averages out at, but for a racing fan, it's off-puttingly limited imo.

lol rider, you read the wrong post!

Supposeit all depends on what you bet, £20 is probably my minimum bet soruk would be about 5% of my monthly betting bank, not a lot to watch your selections is it.

so what is your tip zeb ?

hope u made a few quid lampus.

well worth it
imo

yep, took the hint
will send you up some pastys
thanks

allways a pleasure lampus.

pity only lampus took the advice (or was it too cryptic, lol), wd H

had it free since it came to air , but will pay for it when i have to.

never understood the point of these threads

you either get on with it and pay for it or you are too f ucking cheap to pay 20 quid and feel like you must tell the world that you wouldnt give the sweat off your balls to anyone

Exactly. No RUK, No Comment. Unless posters can prove that they pay for it they shouldnt be allowed to comment. It is after all a private channel ;)

Worth the fee just to knock one out over Lydia's chebs.

Great Whyte 26 Apr 21:39


FACT. RUK costs about the same as a barely decent bottle of win

I would like to know what you pay for a decent bottle of wine!?

At 66p a day , a total bargain .

Muqbil 27 Apr 15:19

Great Whyte 26 Apr 21:39

FACT. RUK costs about the same as a barely decent bottle of win

I would like to know what you pay for a decent bottle of wine!?



he pays 66p a day obviously

In the post he said barely decent.

atr should charge ruk subscribers for their stupidity

That should cost them a lot more than £20.00 per day

Why, are you paying more than that for your stupidity, Telepathic?

3735 - as a matter of proportion £200 per day would be cheap in your case.