Quote Originally Posted by Messenger View Post
I can actually remember being outraged at unfair bumps
It would be interesting to quantify what it actually costs the industry

The biggest outrage is for home viewers who watch through Foxtel and do not have Sky2.
I wonder whether this is really very many? Very many watching through foxtel that is
There should be lobbying to include Sky2 into the basic package or at least the Sports package - the fee of $60 is pretty insignificant but it is not going to occur to non-enthusiasts to even consider it
It would be interesting to know how many people have Sky2 - it would take 1 click for Foxtel to tell us
If I did not have it, I know I can get it on the Sky website

Maybe Sky2 will come to the new Kayo Sports?
What about all of you that watch racing through an app provided by a betting agency - do you get Sky2 or is that the blue screen you refer to?
Those in a TAB of course, only have to look at a different TV screen when a bump occurs

Taken from the April 2019 CEO Report (assuming this it the April 2019 CEO "update") as partially quoted in this thread - If HRV chose not to run races on Sky 1 it would result in approximately 40 per cent less turnover, making those meetings unviable.

Additionally, The only Victorian harness races guaranteed to be run on Sky 1 are Group 1 races.

As well as - Existing arrangements also mean that Sky determines which codes run in various timeslots (e.g. only thoroughbred racing on Sky 1 for Saturday daytime) and individual race times for each meeting.

I received the Harness Racer in April and read the full CEO Report then. Having previously read the Annual Report, I didn't think we'd been misled.