Don’t give them any ideas!
Let’s leave it as 3GL please.
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SEN are hardly in the position to pay for any more leases
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Does SEN Track 1593 already reach there from Melbourne?
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Yeah I would have said this too, no point given how well the Melbourne AMs come into Geelong. If they want a local presence they’re better going cheaper with a 16xx licence instead.
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No racing scheduled on Christmas Day tomorrow, but appears no music on RadioTAB like in years gone by. Sounds like similar to Sky Sports Radio, it will just be a simulcast of Sky Racing TV.
Even on Digital Radio (at least in Brisbane), the extra ‘4TAB’ channels are just simulcast too.
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Given the deep integration of the two and particularly the loss of the Brisbane breakfast, I doubt there’s much sway left to put on the “4IP [/Radio 10/Stereo 10]” revivals that used to grace, at least, 4TAB 2 on digital. Tis a bit of a shame in that respect.
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According to Sunday Herald Sun’s Jon Anderson, Matt Stewart has become the first financial casualty of the merger between RSN and racing dot com. Stewart was told of his termination last weekend by RSN CEO Bernard Saundry.
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Are these video streams?
If audio only, I’m surprised they’re not already being streamed.
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Yes, it’s a studio cam.
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I wondered this too as they’ve long streamed, in fact one of the first in the 90’s when most connections were landline dial up speed.
RSN/Sport 927 also had a 008/1800 number to call to listen to their radio program. They’ve always been proactive at getting as many to listen as possible. Much was made at the time of their wide coverage AM sites, 927 one of, if not the best commercial Melb AM coverage area plus regional Victoria on the former frequencies of 3BA, 3BO and 3SR.
Audio streaming worked to hear the tribute to Fr Gerard Dowling.
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What an amazing career for David Manning.
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RSN set to lose a large chunk of advertising revenue with changes at Tabcorp
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Who’d want to buy 3UZ though?
It’s days as a legendary radio station are mostly forgotten by the people that are not us Melbourne media pros or fans.
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If this sparks big changes at RSN, it will be interesting to see what this means for the “National Racing Service” which shares a lot of race coverage between RSN, Sky Sports Radio in NSW, RadioTAB in half the country, and TAB Radio in WA.
As for the closure of on-course TAB facilities in Victoria unless the clubs cover the staffing costs. I’m not entirely surprised. At Goulburn greyhounds there is usually a human operator and the TAB kiosk, with most TAB on-course bets being placed at the kiosk (and who knows how many on phones through various betting outlets) and even taking kiosk revenue into account, I doubt the revenue covers the staff and insurance costs. It will be sad to see these jobs go though. A lot of these staff cover a lot of ground, with the operator I spoke with at Goulburn last time coming in from Wollongong, and attending other tracks across the state’s south-east on other days of the week.
And it’s not as if TAB Corp can leave the kiosks there without a staff member because the kiosks take cash, which needs to be collected and taken somewhere. Payout is via a printed ticket taken to the human operator.
Admittedly a lot of tote revenue is from large syndicates placing huge bets (and getting kickbacks for it) and the corporate bookmakers laying off some of their risk, so maybe TAB Corp don’t care so much about the revenue from small punters…but removing what is the only on-course provider at a lot of smaller tracks and jeopardising radio coverage is not going to go down well with the racing industry.
But who knows. Maybe it’s a tactic from TAB Corp to put RSN on its knees and then swoop in with a “rescue”, buying it cheaply and making it a most-of-the-time relay of Sky Sports Radio, which I’m sure would be cheaper than the existing arrangement.
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