mikeynz

Weather is not good, that's the nature of winter racing though, when it's gets wet on the East Coast it gets wet.

Always thought sports betting money went back to sports, not racing. Easy to criticise sports tagging on to TAB but you won't attract new customers without it.

Where is all this money coming from or where will Entain recoup its spending spree?

Good fields, hopefully it don't snow or the critics of NZTR will be out in force for scheduling a July meeting on grass. 😀

Doomed you like I always go into bat for Timaru being used more, I noted there was a day in the calendar on Sunday where a meeting at Washdyke was probably a good idea, not sure about your assumption their being a firm track, at this time of year could.easy.strike a day like Wingatui got. I note next month Oamaru race on a Friday after.Grand National week and have programmed a open handicap, numbers will more than likely be thin, that day is better for the AWT and Oamaru maybe a week later but as I've stated before, what do I know.

Senz this morning have announced they will be broadcasting NZ Cricket for four years so they must be planning on sticking around. But will they be a radio version of spark sport, not doing well financially according to news reports. The magic network that closed down today fm would probably have.kept the cricket if it was profitable to do so. Newstalk zb has a audience over 700 000, senz around 35000, while that's not many still shows there is a market for them but the zb network shut radio sport down because it weren't paying. Interesting reading was the survey that showed that the majority of people still listen to radio as opposed to listening online and over 80 percent still when driving listen to radio as opposed to smartphones. That proves radio is still a big player in people's live so why is racing allowing basically no radio coverage. Only ones who will listen online are probably hard-core, you will find if you really want but racing with no radio presence is not going to attract new followers. Interestingly senz in year one had afternoon shows exclusively for most days of cup week, but don't think they bothered in year 2, racing for them is not that important but racing needs good radio coverage, it needs to be in the foreground not the background. Spose the buck stops with those running TAB nz, if they think running a bits and pieces online stream is sufficient then those in charge of the media need replacing. Having said that some of Senz programming is a bit odd too, so many replays or running similar programmes to other stations at same time, note Canterbury sport on Saturday morning or the rural show same time as the country. Senz don't have exclusive rights to broadcast commentary, Cricket Nrl etc etc are on the abc in Australia but they do have exclusive radio rights in NZ, sometimes they think they want to entertain rather than inform, the racing coverage they put up is shit, I haven't listened for a.long time, can't be hard to get it right. No great hardship for some sports to be broadcast through the app while racing has its time in the limelight too, knocking off before 5 on a Saturday is ridiculous. The interesting question is will they keep going, can't keep losing money and not many sports racing stations have stayed for long. Maybe if they listened to some of the racing people then those same racing people might listen to them, simple. As it stands about the only thing I pay much attention to senz is the programme guide, I've noticed the days local content knocks off at 6 at present, are they trimming costs already ?

I note senz is not going that well financially, not sure if that's the NZ section only or overall but I have noticed that local content seems to be reducing after 6 pm, based on what's on the programme guide, . I dont listen purely because they treated racing audiences as a bunch of idiots so I sort of said fuckem. Once you lose listeners it's hard to get them back.

Geo blocking can be done, but only if betting sites are barred from accepting accounts or bank transaction from a certain country. Should it happen, NO.

I wasn't saying they are corrupt but it seems to me that a lot of their planning is subject to geo blocking, I'm all for our lot as far as where we should be putting our dollars. We are a very small market in NZ and everything revolves around turnover, be a difficult task in today's economic climate lifting turnover. I still think trackside could be more profitable if they didn't bother with Monday and Tuesday dog meetings.

So many things with Entain have me mystified, if there is money floating around then track upgrading is a must, think back to the good old days when those AB matches were played on those bogs, called rugby fields, they have improved, so has the product. I still can't see how this Entain lot are thinking they are going to make dollars, if bribing the authorities to geo block I think that is corrupt and put them in the same category as Sky who strangely have put their online streaming charges up the same day spark pull the pin. Trackside could be more profitable if it only had local crew from Wednesdays to Sundays, forget screening Monday and Tuesday dog meetings, no one gives a shit about them.

You must have stacked a lot on it judging by the short price Kods.

The Timaru course has been well discussed and Doomed keeps bringing it up. It is really up to the powers that be have to listen to the participants if they want to shut Timaru. Personally I reckon it's all bullshit but if they want to shut one of Oamaru or Timaru what would you do ? Common sense should prevail.

All the aussie sites let you deposit by cards, but only withdraw through bank transfer, Betfair were an exception, I use to fluff around Betfair when they were based out of the UK, had a brilliant Sportsbook as well as the exchange, then all of a sudden it was blocked and everything linked up to an a australian based site, the place to navigate around is hopeless, even the app is crap, shame really. Easy to criticise TAB site but Betfairs is easily the worst going around.

Wasn't Mr McNaught the guy who was there when they wanted to close Wyndham, ,Forbury and others ? Shift everything to Winton ?

Whips and spurs might be better behind closed doors.

The problem attracting new young punters is that the older ones are probably dieing off twice as fast as the new ones.😞

So I'm not the not the only one who's noticed ?

Putting the radio against a 8 wire fence often would improve the signal. That guy calling the trials at Winton, very enthusiastic, spose ya got to love him for that.

I think for non racing people the racing on the zb stations must have been very nauseating. There weren't many alternatives either. Remember when at 6 o clock they use to read all the results ? Strange though after all these years the coverage on actual radio is the poorest its ever been.

Pity this cuts off a bit early.

some win

Pokies don't bother me, played them online, kind of realized they were a great drain on finances,(mine) but nonetheless a great funder for the host, seems weird the TAB getting rid, what is the reason. Could be they are just thinking of the people not harming themselves, so those people will probably go somewhere else and probably won't go in a TAB again.

Why are the pokies going, spose you could ask why were the ever installed but they were a revenue earner. Does that mean that entain will be doing all the gaming, maybe online only ?

Freda, how are they going to increase revenue and reduce gambling harm ?

Online casinos are a trap for people, but the betting company's love them, money money money.