I see Francesca Cumani took the ‘megawall’ with her to the UK:
For those who don’t get the reference, aside from her work with Seven - Cumani is one of the presenters of ITV’s horse racing coverage
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Victorian racing expands its free-to-air broadcasts
Racing Victoria (RV) and Seven West Media (SWM) have today announced that premium Victorian thoroughbred racing will continue to be televised live and free on the screens of the Seven Network until at least 30 June 2020.
The new agreement will see 21 premium Victorian Saturday meetings, headlined by the $5 million Stella Artois Caulfield Cup (2400m) on 20 October and the $5 million Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) on 27 October, broadcast annually across the nation on Channel 7 and/or 7TWO.
The agreement also ensures that racing fans and sporting enthusiasts can access a free-to-air broadcast of premium Victorian and Sydney racing on the one channel on a minimum 21 occasions throughout the year.
The premium broadcast will commence on the opening day of Victoria’s Spring Racing Carnival – 1 September 2018 – when Caulfield host the $1 million Memsie Stakes (1400m) and Randwick hosts the Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) for which the great Winx is the defending champion.
It continues on Saturdays throughout the Spring Racing Carnival before returning in February for the Festival of Racing and feature autumn racing period.
RV and SWM’s premium broadcast agreement comes on top of their existing joint venture partnership, Racing.com, that sees Victorian and South Australian racing showcased on free-to-air Channel 78 (metropolitan) / Channel 68 (regional) every day throughout the entire year.
It is also in addition to the broadcast agreement that sees SWM broadcast the four days of the Lexus Melbourne Cup Carnival from Flemington on Channel 7.
So I’m guessing Seven won the broadcast rights to the Melbourne Cup Carnival then? Wasn’t it back in May the VRC put them up for tender?
I think it only applies to this year’s carnival. If Seven retains the rights to the Melbourne Cup for 2019 and beyond, it or the VRC will have put up a statement by now.
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I think 7Sport need to update their social media, cover photos still have square boxes with “AO” logo and 7Tennis still says “summer of tennis” (even when they’re covering Wimbledon)
Given the Melbourne test coincides with the start of Sydney to Hobart yacht race, this raises the question: will the yacht race be banished to 7TWO or 7mate, or will Seven give up the rights altogether and let another network picking it up?
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If I had to have a guess, it think it will shown on 7TWO or Seven could give the rights to Ten, at least that way Ten will have a summer sport to show 
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Does anyone actually watch this these days?
Yes, it can still pull a decent TV audience. The race start is a Boxing Day tradition. Last year the coverage attracted 403,000 metro viewers.
Its about time Seven either make 7Mate or 7Two into a HD channel
Re, the Sydney to Hobart yacht race coverage: Do we know when Seven last signed a broadcast deal for that and for how long?
Presuming that Seven still has the rights to the Sydney to Hobart for this year, I could imagine the start of the race + other long-form coverage airing on 7TWO (I don’t think yacht racing would be of much interest to the target demographic of 7mate) with Sydney to Hobart updates on the main channel during ad breaks of the cricket coverage.
I’d imagine that Seven (and probably all networks) will likely have all their channels available in HD when we eventually transition to DVB-T2/HEVC or whatever system the industry adopts for the 2nd generation of digital terrestrial television broadcasting in Australia.
But until then, unfortunately I can’t see the current situation changing anytime soon. Do I think it’s annoying that only one Australian network is currently running two MPEG4 HD channels on DVB-T? Yes, but it is what it is.
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We usually watch it in the Iunch break of the cricket.
Seven really need to invest in a new set for Game Day. It’s looking very tired these days.
It must be almost 10 years old?
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Yeap, they’ve used the same set ever since the show began in March 2008. Also, Talking Footy really needs a new set as well.
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They might just wait, until they have decide if they’re moving or not.
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Game Day set has had I think one refurbishment in that time.
Talking Footy I don’t think needs any change to the set. It works perfectly as it is.
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Some of the paneling is showing signs of wear and tear. It just looks cheap now days, and the stone wall paper… yuck
Winx Stakes – Royal Randwick
Saturday 18 August
Sydney 2.30pm LIVE on Channel 7 and 7plus
Melbourne 2.30pm LIVE on 7TWO and 7plus
Brisbane 2.30pm LIVE on Channel 7 and 7plus
Adelaide 2.00pm LIVE on 7TWO and 7plus
Perth 12.30pm LIVE on 7TWO and 7plus
Seven will broadcast the Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) this Saturday as wonder mare Winx aims to set an Australian record 26 straight wins.
The world’s top-rated racehorse will be aiming to win the $500,000, weight-for-age race named in her honour (formerly the Warwick Stakes) and break Black Caviar’s record of 25 successive wins.
The Godolphin stable has thrown up a challenge to Winx’ s run at the record after nominating star four-year old Kementari.
Hosted by Bruce McAvaney.
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Will 7 be announcing which NFL games they’re covering or is it purely looking up each week what’s on?