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Irish Racing Coverage

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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Mig


    Says offer not available on Virgin Media


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Dec4


    I think you will need an active sky sub also (min €29/pm?) if you want to record RUK on a skybox


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭I says


    Has anyone taken up the offer last week, there surely will be more between now and New Year’s Eve.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    antietam wrote: »
    Course managers I have spoken to have no Idea how the loss of ATR individual course funding is to be replaced as the HRI have not held any meetings to Inform course managers of the new deal with RUK. HRI have refused to answer questions on their outlook for Irish racing going forward over the next six years.
    A few minutes ago I signed up for an evening course starting in February "Horses For Courses". I was on it about fifteen years ago.

    One of the topics is "Role of Horse Racing Ireland".
    This "keyboard warrior" might bring along a few questions. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,765 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.




    I never realised it was previously free to air ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,353 ✭✭✭naughto


    Have many of ye taking out the sub or plan to?
    I don’t no if it’s worth is with two young kids in the house i don’t get to see dam all as it is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭I says


    naughto wrote: »
    Have many of ye taking out the sub or plan to?
    I don’t no if it’s worth is with two young kids in the house i don’t get to see dam all as it is

    Same as I’ll play a waiting game as to what will happen? Will more tracks come back to sky in 2020?
    Couldn’t log in for Black Friday sale I’m sure more will be on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭chinguetti


    A few minutes ago I signed up for an evening course starting in February "Horses For Courses". I was on it about fifteen years ago.

    One of the topics is "Role of Horse Racing Ireland".
    This "keyboard warrior" might bring along a few questions. ;)

    Is that the course they ran in UCD & UL? I did it in UL when doing my Masters. I'm assuming its in UCD again. Got a fine umbrella out of it which I sadly lost :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    chinguetti wrote: »
    Is that the course they ran in UCD & UL? I did it in UL when doing my Masters. I'm assuming its in UCD again. Got a fine umbrella out of it which I sadly lost :(
    It is in the Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan (on the Stillorgan Road / N11).
    When I did it previously it was in UCD.

    One of the highlights was when someone told the breeding speaker his numbers were wrong,
    e.g. a comment like "350 stallions were mated with 8,000 mares last year."

    They said the numbers should be equal.
    I think they thought a stallion and mare got married, and went on honeymoon.
    Apologies if it was you who "corrected" the speaker. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭posturingpat


    I heard Brian gleeson say yesterday the Thyestes was going to be shown on Rte, hasnt been the last few years has it?
    Itv have a List of meetings available online showing which meetings they're covering well in advance, have rte got one somewhere? I've tried look in the past but can't find one :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    From reading press release sounds like Racing TV will be free in ireland for January with a month free to all potential subs at any point in January

    So. ...free in January then take up free month from Jan 30th to take you up to Feb 28th. ...by then all decent horses be away till the festival.

    Aintree will be on ITV punchestown will be on rte.....

    After that I couldnt give a feck till galway. ....Which will be on rte lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭chinguetti


    It is in the Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan (on the Stillorgan Road / N11).
    When I did it previously it was in UCD.

    One of the highlights was when someone told the breeding speaker his numbers were wrong,
    e.g. a comment like "350 stallions were mated with 8,000 mares last year."

    They said the numbers should be equal.
    I think they thought a stallion and mare got married, and went on honeymoon.
    Apologies if it was you who "corrected" the speaker. :)

    No I did it in Limerick where the night the guy from HRI arrived and I suggested that they should market racing at students!

    Good thing for people to go to as you get a couple of free racedays or used to at worst.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


    I'm labouring the point at this stage, but sky satellite subscriptions are hemorrhaging at the moment. The future of sport is people picking and choosing what they want to watch via online platforms ( two people in the last few posts have specifically referred to La Liga now only available online - so don't tell me it can't potentially be a positive ) - in any case no one channel surfs and stops to see who is winning the 2.15 in Ballinrobe unless they have a specific interest in the race. The argument to me isn't valid. I might not be right but that is just my opinion

    You were saying...............

    http://www.laliganews.co.uk/23447/la-liga-broadcaster-eleven-sports-left-brink-uk-just-four-months-air/


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Mig


    Lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    Yukon Elle :)
    (name of a horse)


  • Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭Realalemadrid


    marvin80 wrote: »

    That is interesting - but Eleven Sports have been poorly managed - they have not got themselves on all the platforms they need to be on : Amazon Prime etc. Racing TV need to get the platform out there - on Smart TV's, Fire-sticks - even a Sky app that you can access via the remote control. Any new technology's success is based on ease of access. I'm not sure of the relevance of Eleven Sports' failure to the discussion on Irish racing.

    The big problem streaming sites have is piracy - that could certainly be the fly in the ointment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


    I'm not sure of the relevance of Eleven Sports' failure to the discussion on Irish racing.

    You mentioned: The future of sport is people picking and choosing what they want to watch via online platforms

    Eleven Sports offered this online platform and it failed. Obviously it isn't indicative that every online platform will fail but it's a bad start.


  • Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭ustari


    marvin80 wrote: »
    You mentioned: The future of sport is people picking and choosing what they want to watch via online platforms

    Eleven Sports offered this online platform and it failed. Obviously it isn't indicative that every online platform will fail but it's a bad start.

    Weighing in late on this but that is more a reflection of the challenging market and potentially poor execution than the format necessarily.

    There is a reason that almost all media providers are now providing second screen, watch anywhere options in their packages.

    Also, 11sports is nowhere near the "start" of this movement towards offering online platforms. If anything, they are towards the end of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    naughto wrote: »
    Have many of ye taking out the sub or plan to?
    I don’t no if it’s worth is with two young kids in the house i don’t get to see dam all as it is

    Yeah, I took it out, €12 per month is a steal.
    Likewise I’ve two schmallies. My TV is SaorView aerial and Astra Free-to-View satellite.
    It’s less hassle and less money to watch all my racing on iPad. I’ll be cancelling ATR tomorrow (€15 per month).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭ready4liftoff


    Attheraces will be no more in a few hours time from now as it will be renamed Sky Sports Racing from tomorrow.

    Racing TV will take over coverage of Irish racing from tomorrow, meaning they will have a near monopoly of racing of both sides of the Irish sea.

    In my opinion when you have the threat of Brexit which has the potential to create havoc across the racing industry on this island, this move of Irish racing coverage to Racing TV is hugely counter-productive. If it ain't broke don't fix it and certainly that would be the case regards this controversial decision re TV rights for Irish racing. I for one most certainly won't be paying over 300 euro extra a year no matter what for it.

    It's a decision that has raised many eyebrows across racing and I hope that this move will backfire spectacularly on Horse racing Ireland and its chief executive Brian Kavanagh who was far from convincing in his answers when promoting this new TV deal.

    2019 will be a deeply challenging year for Irish racing for obvious reasons. My hopes for the new year are that Brexit won't take place at all and that the powers that be in HRI will see sense and see that this new TV rights deal is not in the best interests for Irish racing. But those hopes seem like a long-shot at this stage.


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    How is it going to cost you over €300 extra per annum? I’m actually saving money!

    ATR was costing me €180 and the first year of RTV will cost me €144.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭ready4liftoff


    Gautama wrote: »
    How is it going to cost you over €300 extra per annum? I’m actually saving money!

    ATR was costing me €180 and the first year of RTV will cost me €144.

    I believe the headline figure will be around 31 euro per month in time. You say that RTV costs you 144 euro in the first year. You must have got RTV as part of the Black Friday offers. But like sky and so many other platforms the subscription prices will increase and I'm certain that by after year 1 of this RTV Irish racing deal you like so many customers will be forking out an hell of a lot more. Personally its a no thanks for me in spite of the narrative that this new TV deal will be "good for Irish racing".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    So from tmrw all irish racing will be free to view on ruk for the month of January apparently. ....so we can watch Fairyhouse and tramore on tv tmrw without having to do anything. ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Gautama wrote: »
    Yeah, I took it out, €12 per month is a steal.
    Likewise I’ve two schmallies. My TV is SaorView aerial and Astra Free-to-View satellite.
    It’s less hassle and less money to watch all my racing on iPad. I’ll be cancelling ATR tomorrow (€15 per month).

    €12pm??? Whatchutalkinboutwillis


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    €12pm??? Whatchutalkinboutwillis

    Racing TV had a “Black Friday” offer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,460 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    So from tmrw all irish racing will be free to view on ruk for the month of January apparently. ....so we can watch Fairyhouse and tramore on tv tmrw without having to do anything. ....
    So you are saying the channel is free for January on the sky platform?
    I was just trying to do subscription for a friend this evening and it wouldn't take the sky card number online.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    SSR looking decent so far if a little flat-centric. ...willing to hold my judgement for now.....good feat on Warren G earlier to be fair

    So.....will RUK be free to air for irish races today as advertised. ...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,765 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Anyone signed up with Racing TV? I My son and I were thinking of signing up and splitting the cost. If one of us could watch via satellite, the other could watch online. Would the work?


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭onlyonpaper


    SSR looking decent so far if a little flat-centric. ...willing to hold my judgement for now.....good feat on Warren G earlier to be fair

    So.....will RUK be free to air for irish races today as advertised. ...



    Checked today on two occasions and RUK was encrypted. Was there conditions to the free view in January ????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Twas free to view all day till around 4pm and then encrypted
    Dunno wats going on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Was looking for it on the eir box today but nowhere to be seen. Sky racing there, virgin media racing there but no racing uk channel or whatever it calls itself now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭Fiftyplus


    Racing TV was free to air from 11.45 to 2.45 today. 3 hrs free every day in January as a tempter. Last two races at both Tramore and Fairyhouse weren't covered. Also, they say you can sign up for a free month's trial though not sure what the small print says.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    3 hrs free every day?
    Will these be set times etc?

    Where u seeing this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭D2D


    3 hrs free every day?
    Will these be set times etc?

    Where u seeing this?

    https://www.racingtv.com/racingtvoffers/free-to-view


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    what a strange concept

    Cheers lad


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    Yesterday’s Racing Post said that TV viewers will pay €31 per month to watch Racing TV and €32 per month to watch Sky Sports Racing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Gautama wrote: »
    Yesterday’s Racing Post said that TV viewers will pay €31 per month to watch Racing TV and €32 per month to watch Sky Sports Racing.

    If you subscribe to RUK all you get for your money is RUK
    Anyone with a subscription to sky bar the most basic of packages gets SSR free

    Put it to you this way, if you get SSN free, then you get SSR free
    and that's 90% of people with Sky

    The 2 prices are not relevant to the other


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  • Registered Users Posts: 508 ✭✭✭Scott Tenorman


    If you subscribe to RUK all you get for your money is RUK
    Anyone with a subscription to sky bar the most basic of packages gets SSR free

    Put it to you this way, if you get SSN free, then you get SSR free
    and that's 90% of people with Sky

    The 2 prices are not relevant to the other

    If it is part of your paid subscription how is it free? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    If it is part of your paid subscription how is it free? :confused:

    If you get your lunch in the same shop every day, say a sandwich and crisps for a fiver.
    Now, say on Thursday they throw in a can of coke with that, no extra cost....

    are you paying for that coke, or is it coming free?


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    If it is part of your paid subscription how is it free? :confused:

    I agree with you, if you pay for it, then it’s not free.
    SSR is not free, it’s paid for as part of a package.


  • Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Gautama


    Gautama wrote: »
    I agree with you, if you pay for it, then it’s not free.
    SSR is not free, it’s paid for as part of a package.

    It’s a bit like the Irish Water debate. For most of the population the water had never been free, it was paid for our of general taxation.

    I know, I know... don’t go there...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    Trimmed my sky package down to basic earlier this year...28 euro...no racing...rang them...the package that contained the racing was an extra 10 euro...now my bill is 38...please stop saying its free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    If you subscribe to RUK all you get for your money is RUK
    Anyone with a subscription to sky bar the most basic of packages gets SSR free

    Put it to you this way, if you get SSN free, then you get SSR free
    and that's 90% of people with Sky

    The 2 prices are not relevant to the other

    You assume that everyone is a Sky subscriber.

    That is NOT the case.

    People need to distinguish between Free to View and Free to Air. The former still requires subscription.


  • Registered Users Posts: 508 ✭✭✭Scott Tenorman


    If you get your lunch in the same shop every day, say a sandwich and crisps for a fiver.
    Now, say on Thursday they throw in a can of coke with that, no extra cost....

    are you paying for that coke, or is it coming free?

    What? That isn't like for like at all.

    It is more like you pay for ten items from a shop then claim one of them was free.
    It's not!

    SSR is one channel included in your package. It's not that when you buy X package you get it free, it is part of the package


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    flos1964 wrote: »
    Trimmed my sky package down to basic earlier this year...28 euro...no racing...rang them...the package that contained the racing was an extra 10 euro...now my bill is 38...please stop saying its free.

    I pay €32 a month original package and have SSN and Sky sports racing in that...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    My mistake so...did not know that...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭paddy no 11


    Does atr still exist? Or has it morphed into SSR?

    Is the Sunday forum gone?

    Does atr now have no graded races but great analysis and ruk have loads of races but zero analysis which is a pretty tough watch from What I saw new year day. A mix of both would be a great idea

    Tough time to be a fan


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