The Woodbine Entertainment Group
announced today that subscribers to Horse Players Interactive TV (HPItv) will be able to see a new replay show. Here is a portion of the press release as posted on the Standardbred Canada website: "Beginning early Monday morning HPItv will launch a new show called Reloaded – a program that will air race replays from the previous day. HPItv subscribers will now be able to view the replays from the five featured tracks consecutively and without pre-race commentary. The addition of Reloaded provides viewers with the ability to watch and record replays from tracks in which they are interested while omitting others."
So here is my question. Why aren't WEG and the Meadowlands and other race tracks NOT providing day-after online replays for free anyway, along WITH the pre-race commentary that often is interesting and insightful? In other words, if the video already exists, and the races already are run, why in the world shouldn't these tracks allow people-- no, make that encourage people-- to go online the next morning and check out the action they've missed?
There are dozens of casual harness fans in my life who I just know I could help hook into the sport if I could simply send them a link in the morning from time to time that would instantly bring them up a great race. No YouTube. No RaceReplay sign up. A simple link. The best way to market this sport is to show the sport and the best way to do that is to get races onto computers. So even if tracks aren't yet unanimous in their willingness and ability to stream races live-- don't get me started on that-- at a minimum they should be simply re-rackign the video from the night before and showing it again. Just like you can see Yankees and Rockies and Red Sox games the morning after....
Anyone going to disagree with me?
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