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Racing channel delayed on Foxtel

Negotiations continue between Seven & Foxtel over the new Racing.com channel.

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Seven’s new racing channel Racing.com launches today but will be absent from Foxtel.

Despite negotiations continuing on Friday, no resolution could be met.

“The Seven Network is continuing its discussions with Foxtel to be able to expand the Racing.com coverage to Channel 522 but no agreement has been reached at this time,” Racing Victoria said in a statement yesterday.

“Foxtel viewers can watch all Victorian races this weekend on Sky Racing 1 (Channel 519).

“The new Racing.com channel will be officially launched on free-to-air television tomorrow with the broadcast of the Memsie Stakes meeting from Caulfield available to over 90 per cent of the population.”

Racing.com launches with coverage of Group 1 Memsie Stakes Day from Caulfield today, in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and much of regional Queensland on Channel 78.

Regional free-to-air viewers in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia, along with the ACT and Gold Coast, can view on Channel 68.

Tasmania, Darwin, Broken Hill and regional South Australia will be able to watch from Monday via Southern Cross Television.

Racing Victoria is unable to advise when an agreement may be reached with Foxtel.

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  2. The Orange/Dubbo area of Prime who are the Seven affiliate have been showing channel 68 now for a few weeks but its in MPEG4 format and of my 6 TV’s, one cannot scan the channel at all, four can only show the Info bar but no Audio/Video leaving only one capable of receiving this format.
    I also have a strong STB bought back before I had any Digital TV’s and its tuner is able to receive the MPEG4 format but not being a racing/shopping fan, I dont intend to waste money enabling the other TV’s to receive this format.

    1. See you’re accessing it via Prime7’s feed. If you were only accessing MIA networks you wouldn’t be able to access it. I used to have a 50 foot tower to access the Wagga networks but unfortunately the antenna died and it was too difficult to replace so the sparky just added a local antenna. Now I am like the rest of the locals and stuck with only WIN.

  4. I have no knowledge of the way the regional networks work, as im from the city.
    However why would it be WIN’s responsibility, or them letting “their viewers down”, when the racing.com channel is a Channel Seven run and operated channel? Dont they have an affiliation with Channel 9? Isnt it Sevens responsibility to have a affiliate in the areas you are talking about?

    1. In the two areas I have mentioned below WIN has a monopoly – whereby they are the regional affiliate for Nine, Seven and TEN. As a result, WIN is the one responsible for offering the metro networks new channels. However, as WIN are primarily concerned with Nine, they only offer the datacasting channels GOLD and GOLD2 (the regional equivalents of Extra and Extra2) – they don’t offer TEN’s TVSN and SpreeTV, or Seven’s TV4ME (and now Racing.com).

    1. I also live in Griffith and I just manually tuned the commercial networks (RF’s 29, 30 & 32) and there are no new channels listed. Are you accessing it via a surround areas network ( e.g. Wagga)?

  6. So areas which are a WIN monopoly (the MIA and South-Eastern South Australia) are the only areas in the country where the channel isn’t available? Once again WIN has let their viewers down. The sooner media reforms are done the better.

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