ABC sucks- somebody please post results and prices

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

I really never understand the knocking of ABC, NBC or anyones coverage of horse racing.

ESPN is ESPN, not ESPN OTB. ABC is ABC, and not ABC OTB.

They put horse racing on the air to entertain general audiences in addition to racing fans. General audiences could care less about who ran fourth, they want to know who just won the race.

The same argument applies to their camera angles. To a non-racing fan, the pan shot is BORING.

They correctly assume the majority of people who are serious bettors are not on their couch but at a track or an OTB. The majority of people watching horse racing on a day like the Belmont are 3x a year race watchers and they are watching to be entertained, not informed.

Really ? Are you caught in a time warp ? It isn't 1965... Those days are as long gone as stock traders cathering on Wall Street to trade stocks.

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by jms62

Really ? Are you caught in a time warp ? It isn't 1965... Those days are as long gone as stock traders cathering on Wall Street to trade stocks.

My serious bettor population I'm referring to though is like those who frequent here... play some, work more. The guys who are the big money bettors that you are referring to are watching on their ADWs. They don't have time to watch the ABC broadcast.

I wish I was in a time warp... I'd take advantage of it like they did in Back to the Future and hit some real big scores.

[rpncaine]

I agree that the ABC broadcast has to be catered to the general viewing audience, but why the hell can't they leave the ADW Video stream alone. There was in house video going on at Belmont so let us see it. If nothing else, cut the audio stream and let us watch the F'n races and see the payouts.

[Alan07]

Saturday's Belmont drew on ABC drew a 5.0 overnight, up 43% from 2007 and 32% in 2006 — but down 47% from last year when the race had a Triple Crown candidate.

[Slewbopper]

From 5 to 7 it was the same babble we heard from noon til 5. Would it have been too much to ask to show stretch run of each horse's previous race? Would have taken 5 minutes.

What I don't get is that no other racing is shown. How the hell can you keep a casual viewer's attention with 2 1/2 minutes of action in 2 hours?

Regarding the Manhattan, I wasn't paying attention and by the time I went to Youbet on my PC to wager the gate had already opened. Then I switched to TVG. It actually was a good thing. I liked Cosmonaut but was shut out.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

My serious bettor population I'm referring to though is like those who frequent here... play some, work more. The guys who are the big money bettors that you are referring to are watching on their ADWs. They don't have time to watch the ABC broadcast.

I wish I was in a time warp... I'd take advantage of it like they did in Back to the Future and hit some real big scores.

But the problem is that the ADW's at least mine couldn't carry the Manhatten or the Belmont.. I also think for the Belmont they couldnt post results until they aired on ABC.