you wait all year for a decent day of sunday racing and ruk manage to destroy it, ,
if its all about advertising,exposure peterborough might as well go back to midweek

Fair play to Punchestown as it must be hard to ensure that you feck it up all afternoon.

Fences omitted at cork now due to strong cross winds

I wish the Peterborough chase did go back to midweek along with many other graded races

Getting us ready for coverage for December 26

if when you can get a full screen shouty man blabs on about exactly foooking nothing to delay going to commentary,
split screen there had horses at punch looking like they were running down to fences at cork

What! No Wetherby.

That’s correct sageform I hadn’t really noticed that but definitely not shown in there.

In the days before On-Course Betting Shops ... You had to go into  the Tote Investors Office.

But had to be a Member - and have an Account (Number) with them.

How have they not managed to get back to their correct race time all afternoon ?

the greatest concern was why ruk should have presenters at three tracks when there was never going to be time for any build up..racing profits going into the gravy train pockets

saw that Gordon broooone at haddock,aintree yesterday behind the scenes ,presentation,s trophie,s etc ,who,s paying him besides ruk

i agree totally  with most on here . today was a tv farce . please , please get racing tv and courses together to sort this out . the coverage was amateurish, sold the product badly on a day after carry on sandown too . makes var look good . sorry , didn't switch to sky  . chariot racing from dieppe by any chance ?

Media rights chair O'Neill 'very disappointed' as Durkan coverage suffers on RTV
Min won Sunday's John Durkan but the race had to be shown on a split screen alongside the Peterborough Chase on RTV
Min won Sunday's John Durkan but the race had to be shown on a split screen alongside the Peterborough Chase on RTV
Patrick McCann
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By Richard Forristal
UPDATED 8:18PM, DEC 8 2019
 
Conor O’Neill, general manager of Punchestown racecourse and also chairman of Horse Racing Ireland’s media rights committee, on Sunday admitted to being “very disappointed” that the John Durkan Memorial Chase was broadcast on a split screen with no commentary in the early stages.

Following Irish racing’s switch to Racing TV after Racecourse Media Group acquired the rights from SIS in a deal that began on January 1, split-screen coverage is an issue that has become exacerbated due to the volume of tracks now on RTV’s roster.

Given that Irish racecourses are budgeting for a ten per cent drop in media rights revenue for 2020 due to weak sterling and the closure of around 2,300 betting shops in Britain after a reduction in maximum FOBT stakes, the manner in which even elite Irish races are treated as second-class contests alongside lesser-quality British races on RTV has done nothing to defuse frustration at the situation.


Conor Heaphy
@heaph93
So to watch back the john durkan today on rtv online there’s a split screen with huntingdon and then cork. Why aren’t they using their dedicated feed? Shocking @RacingTV

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The split-screen problem was evident on Saturday, when races at Navan shared the screen at different times with events at Aintree and Wetherby, and viewers’ simmering anger was palpable on social media on Sunday, when Punchestown’s Grade 1 and the Peterborough Chase had to share the screen, with no commentary audible for the Irish race save for the final 40 seconds.

The scheduled off times for the first three Punchestown races were delayed by two minutes at the request of SIS. When Davy Russell was taken ill shortly before the third race after weighing out, his replacement Jack Kennedy had to weigh out afresh, meaning the subsequent feature event eventually went off 11 minutes late at 2.01pm, 18 seconds after the Peterborough started.

Consequently, the climax of the Durkan had to share the screen with pictures from the 2.05pm at Cork.

“It's very unfortunate and very disappointing, and the Durkan family are fantastic supporters of racing and of Punchestown, but at the same time these things happen,” O’Neill said in reference to the race sponsor when informed of the reduced commentary and split screen.

“We can appreciate how it has occurred but from Punchestown's perspective it is very disappointing.”

O’Neill is also chairman of the Association of Irish Racecourses, which ultimately ceded control of the rights to SIS when the new deal was agreed in 2016. Of the absence of commentary for much of the Durkan, he added: “It's an ongoing issue that we're in discussions over and we'll have to look into it. It's not ideal.”


derek sims
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Very poor today give Irish racing back to ATR  Grade one race with no sound


jonathan pack
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£24 a month and forced to watch the John durkhan on mute with half a screen till on the way down to the last. even clashed with cork. Surely time to introduce Rtv ire or rtv 2.Yeah the winter season ticket is good and the club days etc but this is getting beyond a joke.Rant over

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The drop in media rights revenues for 2020 has been forecast for some time. With 18 fixtures a year, and each race worth approximately €7,000, for a track like Punchestown the total income from media rights would be in the region of €1 million, so a ten per cent reduction could cost around €100,000. An increase in the revenue received for streaming rights is expected, but not so much that it will negate the reduction from betting shops.

Explaining the background to the issue, O’Neill said: “Within the current media rights contract there are a couple of variables, one being the sterling exchange rate and the other being the betting shop numbers. With Brexit, the sterling rate has fluctuated quite significantly over recent months and the betting shops, after the FOBT limits were cut, have reduced in number, so those two variables impact on the LBO [betting shop] element of the revenue tracks receive from media rights.

"Racecourses' reliance on media rights is hugely significant, so losing ten per cent would obviously mean you have to adjust budgets and spend. It puts the emphasis on racecourses to increase additional revenue streams and look to attract more people through the gate to take the reliance off that."

Responding to the issues on Sunday, a Racing TV spokesman said: “It was obviously very unfortunate that Davy Russell was taken ill prior to the John Durkan and we wish him all the very best. The episode triggered a ten-minute delay to the feature race which meant it started after the feature race in Britain, the Fitzdares Peterborough Chase, was already under way.

"Unfortunately, we are always at the mercy of unforeseen delays in horseracing, but we will review Sunday’s output and the processes in place and will continue close dialogue with the BHA, HRI and the racecourses about the planning and management of race times to improve the scheduling of UK and Irish racing.

"Good progress has been made this year on that front but there’s always more that can be done.”

Conor O’Neill, general manager of Punchestown racecourse and also chairman of Horse Racing Ireland’s media rights committee, on Sunday admitted to being “very disappointed” that the John Durkan Memorial Chase was broadcast on a split screen with no commentary in the early stages.

Let's not mention it went off 11 minutes 30 seconds after its scheduled off time.

They requested a 2 minute delay...the rest was down to Davy Russell being unwell.

This was a complete debacle that was always going to happen. Just a question of how many times?

The imbalance between the two channels is ridiculous.

It is an bigger scandal that Virgin Media subscribers don't get the same benefits as everyone else. What is the excuse for that?

and what irish racing thought they were doing switching to RUK I have no idea, 1 of the worst decisions irish racing has ever made

Correct - NO Extra Channel available on/via Virgin Cable TV.