According to The Sunday Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield, Karl Stefanovic gave 13 aspiring broadcasters at Sky Racing an invaluable insight into television broadcasting as part of the Sky Racing Academy program. The presenters of the future are being coached by leading broadcaster Jimmy ‘Handbags’ Wilson, who brought Stefanovic in to give the emerging talent some tips.
Karl for the Melbourne Cup?
Does the invaluable insight include how to properly handle yourself at award ceremonies? 
Hell no.
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Probably just on not leaving me Karlos
Sky Racing 1 will again provide live coverage of Melbourne Cup Carnival, starting with Derby Day tomorrow.
Sky Racing 2 is also in HD, according to Foxtel’s online guide.
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Although if you read the description of the morning show, you would think they’ve set sights somewhere else.
At least it’s better on Cup day. Literally 8am-6pm is just “Thoroughbreds from Flemington”.
Over on SR2, one single race is scheduled for the morning that day, Wingatui at 9.30am AEDT. Probably not the first time, there will be a 161-minute countdown.
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Tomorrow’s biggest race of the day is at Randwick - the Golden Eagle
Lots of racing on both channels on Tuesday
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These bold parts weren’t read, I assume.
Over on SR2, one single race is scheduled for the morning that day, Wingatui at 9.30am AEDT.
Tuesday mornings are traditionally quiet for racing anyway - Sky limiting what international races they carry elongates that too (other than NZ, the only other market running before midday is the US, but the time difference starts to cause overlap issues)
Sky is a lot more ruthless about moving races on Melbourne Cup day from SR1 to SR2 as well. Its possible that SR2 will carry SR1 coverage for the morning
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Don’t know if it’s normal but the “next to jump” ticker system appears to have issues this morning.
Some races are not marked “in-progress” and cleared out of it until after the finish line. The most recent SR1 one, Tauherenikau, is still marked by SR2 as “-8 min”, even though it has already finished. (10:36am: Finally cleared.)
Additionally (might be because of coverage difference), SR1 ticker only showed SR1 races.
I seem to remember this would happen a lot. Sometimes races would get delayed then they would move on to another race and that would create issues with the way the ticker system appears. Then you suddenly have races being moved to the other channel. It mainly happens when they mix international races with races that are happening in Aus.
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Couple of graphics caps for those interested. Likely specially designed for the big race days.
Also live cross to Torquay Hotel in Victoria as part of today’s “TABTime” promotion (and TAB is shouting punters Parmi’s apparently).
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Checking the EPG, it’s now a regular programming block, going noon-6pm on weekends.
That’s because it still shows up even though nothing major happens on November 2, 9, or 15.
Never thought the Race Sport font would get regular usage on television, but here we are.
It looks like the Sky Racing version of TrotsVision lives on, despite SEN now producing their own version. Both of them sit side-by-side on their website. Surely the Sky one is destined for closure?
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This came up in my LinkedIn feed this morning.
(Emphasis added)
Could this mean the late night replays will soon be a thing of the past, and the overseas racing coverage will continue right through? There’s usually some hours of UK and US racing not covered during the replay hours.
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Tabcorp has always intended for Sky to operate as a true “wall-to-wall” racing service, a vision that dates back to the period before TVN, Racing Live, and RDC existed.
TVN was essentially created following failed negotiations to establish a joint Sky/RVL, code-specific broadcast service. The original proposal would have seen that new thoroughbred-focused channel sit alongside the existing wall-to-wall Sky Racing service. In addition, there were plans for two further joint-venture, code-specific channels—one dedicated to harness racing and one to greyhound racing.
All of these channels were intended to include red button functionality, similar to a “Sports Active” service. This would have allowed viewers not only to switch between channels, but also to select from multiple uninterrupted, individual venue feeds of every broadcast meeting across all racing codes.
Sky Racing World was, at one point, planned to relaunch as Sky3 prior to the formation of Racing Live/RDC. However, after Sky missed out on the rights to Victorian thoroughbred racing, the channel was instead relaunched under the name Sky Thoroughbred Central.
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Let’s hope so
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Maybe the across-the-ditch equivalent could learn something from that. If that materializes.
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Sky Sports Racing UK airs this channel overnight over here.
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