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BBC lose live horse racing rights from 2013

  • 19-03-2012 01:39PM
    #1
    mr.jingle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭


    Just seen that the BBC have lost all rights to horse racing to Channel 4 from 2013 for 4 yrs.

    Great news as a horse racing fan and horrible news if your a fashion expert :rolleyes:

    The BBC were terrible i thought and the fact that Channel 4 are taking over some of the biggest race days is brilliant. The Arc, Royal Ascot,Grand National,Derby meetings and a couple of other meetings will now go to C4 :D

    At least with C4 you know your gonna get decent coverage with decent presenters, commentary and its all about the horse racing and not some of the useless stuff the BBC used to show especially the fashion parts!


Comments

  • #2
    Predalien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Predalien


    The coverage in the build up to the derby last year nearly drove me mad, you wouldn't have known there were other horses in the race apart from Carlton House.


  • #3
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    The Beeb is preferable to 4 mins of ads every 12-15mins imho.


  • #4
    mdwexford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    This is great news for viewers and for racing.


  • #5
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Agree with most of the comments. BBC coverage is simply diabolical. Gary Wiltshire & John Parrott at Aintree have me watching it on mute (more aimed at GW I suppose).


  • #6
    mr.jingle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭mr.jingle


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    The Beeb is preferable to 4 mins of ads every 12-15mins imho.

    I'd rather look at 4mins of ads than having to listen at John Parrott trying to be funny and then having to listen to Willie Carson talk a load of sh!te in that same amount of time! Their coverage was appalling at times


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  • #7
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    BBC was pure ****e, great news, can't believe C4 are after Balding. I hope that doesn't meant Tanya would get shuffled back further, can't fathom C4's treatment of her. I would much rather hear her opinion in the studio than Nick Luck or Alastair Down.


  • #8
    RichieLawlor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭RichieLawlor


    hucklebuck wrote: »
    BBC was pure ****e, great news, can't believe C4 are after Balding. I hope that doesn't meant Tanya would get shuffled back further, can't fathom C4's treatment of her. I would much rather hear her opinion in the studio than Nick Luck or Alastair Down.

    Are you joking? Lord Snooty and Fat Al are racing giants


  • #9
    MoscowFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭MoscowFlyer


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    The Beeb is preferable to 4 mins of ads every 12-15mins imho.

    This is the time you do your research ;)


  • #10
    mdwexford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    hucklebuck wrote: »
    BBC was pure ****e, great news, can't believe C4 are after Balding. I hope that doesn't meant Tanya would get shuffled back further, can't fathom C4's treatment of her. I would much rather hear her opinion in the studio than Nick Luck or Alastair Down.

    Nick Luck is excellent, hes not in the same bracket as Alastair Down at all.


  • #11
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    I am not saying I don't rate either, Nick Luck is better than Alastair but I just rate Tanya above both of them.

    Anyone know if something happened? All of a sudden Tanya is sent outside with her palm pilot.


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  • #12
    UnitedIrishman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭UnitedIrishman


    Thanks be to god. No more sh*te talking from Balding and her racing aristocracy buddies.

    Like most, was really pissed off with their coverage of the Derby. Must've been told at least 200 times that the Queen was the owner of Carlton House and how 'the whole country is behind the horse'. Get fúcked BBC. Delighted for Channel 4, their coverage is always excellent although they could probably give bigger races a bigger build up rather than treating a race at Caterick the same as the World Hurdle! :pac:


  • #13
    sting60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭sting60


    No harm.But are there problems at Attheraces they lost three courses in Scotland Matt Chapman now commentates on the all-weather from the studio[are they about to lose them aswell].They are trying to pay less for Irish meetings.Gary O Brien will cover less tracks for the comming flat season.


  • #14
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Delighted with this news, your man Simon Holt is an amazing commentator, in a tight finish he makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, John Francombe is great as well so delighted that C4 have the likes of Royal Ascot and The Derby & Oaks etc :D


  • #15
    MoscowFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭MoscowFlyer


    Isn't Matt Chapman joining Racing UK soon?


  • #16
    shy-tall-knight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭shy-tall-knight


    MoscowFlyer wrote: »
    Isn't Matt Chapman joining Racing UK soon?

    I'm afraid so, Chapman is like marmite to some people but I love the man, big big loss for ATR. Not sure when it is he is going but he made reference to himself leaving on "get on" one of the days last week.


  • #17
    mdwexford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Lol shocked by that, he is an annoying goon imo.


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