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Post by BVADMIN on Dec 31, 2017 0:31:19 GMT
I heard last night at the ZOO that our two weekly BAGS meetings at the ZOO are not sure to be shown in every High Street Bookmakers Shops.
My local shop is 'BETFRED' can someone please find out is Mr Done covering Belle Vue or not.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 17:11:21 GMT
The future of greyhound coverage become a lot clearer tomorrow, at the moment it appears Betfair will stream and bet on both sides, theres no chance of Ladbrokes showing TRP coverage in their shops but will they stream it online? William Hill are indicating that they'll only be streaming the SIS coverage online so we can assume they won't cover TRP in their shops either? It could be that Betfred is your only hope of watching the Zoo in a betting shop and I wouldn't bank on that?
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 1, 2018 8:41:53 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE RACING POST - MONDAY 1/1/18
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 1, 2018 13:31:56 GMT
** NOW CONFIRMED **
from January 1st 2018 you can no longer watch any live pictures from Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium in a 'BETFRED' high Street bookmakers shop.
So it you want to watch any pictures for the ZOO's two weekly BAGS Sunday / Wednesday meetings give 'BETFRED' a miss and find another shop that will be showing them ..
SOD YOU MR DONE THAT'S ANOTHER LOYAL LONG STANDING CUSTOMER YOU HAVE LOST TODAY...
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 1, 2018 13:35:02 GMT
The future of greyhound coverage become a lot clearer tomorrow, at the moment it appears Betfair will stream and bet on both sides, theres no chance of Ladbrokes showing TRP coverage in their shops but will they stream it online? William Hill are indicating that they'll only be streaming the SIS coverage online so we can assume they won't cover TRP in their shops either? It could be that Betfred is your only hope of watching the ZOO in a betting shop and I wouldn't bank on that?
YOU WERE SPOT ON 'alex'
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 14:55:40 GMT
It appears that WILLIAM HILL are taking both greyhound services in their shops. I've just watched Sheffield and Romford so thats the only place to watch Belle Vue on the high street.
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 1, 2018 16:23:37 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE RACING POST WEBSITE - MONDAY 1/1/18
New year heralds a new order for greyhound racing
By Jonathan Kay
THE MONDAY COLUMN
THE first day of 2018 marks the end of the old order and, in some ways, the comfort zone for our sport. Greyhound racing has gone commercial, or more precisely been forced into it, following the effective breaking away from Bags – organisers of betting shop greyhound coverage for 50 years – by SIS, chiefly supported by Ladbrokes Coral.
And so it is that this morning sees a choice of coverage in the nation’s betting shops with those signed to SIS offering Central Park and Henlow, while TRP has Perry Barr and Swindon to begin proceedings still under the Bags banner.
With the major firms all signed to SIS, the chances are it will be SIS coverage seen by most. However, that does not mean that TRP has not made significant inroads into the market place and there is an element of merit to TRP director Mark Kingston’s claim that “the Bags product is still valued and trusted by operators and punters alike”.
Strip away the four Ladbrokes Coral venues which are at the core of SIS’s service – Crayford, Hove, Monmore and Romford – and there is more depth to the TRP schedule.
Certainly, someone who had predicted two years ago that the likes of Central Park, Doncaster, Harlow and Henlow would be an integral part of the betting shop programme would have been advised to give their heads a shake, for all that the quartet have since prospered – not least due to significant exposure on RPGTV.
TRP’s task is to gain a real foothold in the betting shop market and it can only do that by persuading major firms other than Ladbrokes Coral – Hills has a commitment following the sale of Newcastle and Sunderland to TRP’s parent Arena Racing Company – that its product is required.
Greyhound racing may be perceived as being in decline but it is still a profitable part of the betting shop landscape and the first few weeks of concentrated scheduling is going to make fascinating viewing.
Will some tracks struggle with near-relentless commitments? Will bookmaker traders embrace all tracks the same or will there be different grades of track in terms of risk management?
Even now, on D-Day it seems crazy that two rival services are being marketed and hard to believe that the numbers can really stack up for either.
Some sort of rapprochement seems inevitable down the line, otherwise there surely has to be a winner and a loser and that is not good for greyhound racing.
We bade sad farewells to both Hall Green and Wimbledon during 2017 and it is probably odds-on that at least one other track falls by the wayside this year.
Should either of the media rights deals unravel then more would be on the hook. Greyhound racing cannot survive as a spectator participant sport alone, which many bemoaning the loss of the ‘good old days’ with two or three night meetings weekly at customer-friendly times would do well to realise.
One thing resolved was the future of RPGTV which enters a new era with a stand-alone meeting from Nottingham tonight but will otherwise be two meetings each night.
A deal with Arc sees coverage switch, in the main, to Greyhound Media Group tracks, some of which have been the most resistant to the channel’s very existence.
Strange bedfellows and all that, but undoubtedly now a very strong schedule for the free-to-air channel and with reports from one soon-to-feature track that trainers are already being approached by potential owners keen to have greyhounds at tracks they can regularly see.
Sky Sports coverage remains up in the air but it is hoped a deal can be done. It boils down to money, with Sky having shown a willingness to broadcast the sport if it is presented to them as a ready package, but not to pay for it.
There are few dissenting industry voices that such high-profile coverage is not a boon, even those like myself who think it should feature only the best of the best, so surely common sense will prevail – maybe as part of Lord Lipsey’s on-going ‘offshore contributions’ negotiations with those bookmakers who potentially have most to gain. These are interesting, but dangerous, times.
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 2, 2018 9:31:04 GMT
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 3, 2018 9:25:02 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE RACING POST - WEDNESDAY 3/1/17
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 3, 2018 18:34:36 GMT
I'm still very confused by all this media stuff.
But one thing is for sure it will be W Hills and BET365 getting my off-course bets on greyhounds racing from now on.
SOD YOU 'BETFRED'
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