Multi Choice Termination Letter- Calamity ahead

Just googled multichoice 239 and it went to ABC ........lol

Jack Dash Wrote:

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> Robin Bruss reckons about 50,000 Tellytrack
> viewers and John Stuart estimated up to 100k
> viewers.
>
> Even 50k viewers will mean a R50,000,000 viewer
> investment in decoders just to stay where we were.
> You have to wonder has anyone thought this
> through. At first it looked planned, now it looks
> like a prank gone horribly wrong.
>
> Racing's administrators seem to be scrambling to
> stay in control of events they started themselves.
> As usual their last consideration was about their
> customers. At least Dstv didn't have us sigh
> indemnity forms to watch TV, wonder what's to
> worry about?


I wonder if they are counting the people in totes as viewers

Sylvester Wrote:

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> i have no idea what this means . please clarify
> for us non english speaking forumites.

Does this mean:
a) if bookmakers dont capitulate to TTs conditions they wont get feed?
b) Joe Soap wont get feed as no 239?
c) the death bell for horsehorse racing in SA?

World Cup is on 29th. Hope we can get a decent online feed.

KitKat Wrote:

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> Sylvester Wrote:
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> > i have no idea what this means . please clarify
> > for us non english speaking forumites.
>
> Does this mean:
> a) if bookmakers dont capitulate to TTs conditions
> they wont get feed?
> b) Joe Soap wont get feed as no 239?
> c) the death bell for horsehorse racing in SA?


I might be suffering from tinnitus or mild schizophrenia because I hear Jim Morrison and The Doors singing "This Is The End ..." quite clearly in my head - Wonder if Riaan and Marcus hear it too?

What happened to the 6 months story? I thought 239 would remain on DSTV for 6 months after the 27 March date?

This is totally confusing

Would be nice if any one from Phumelela who reads the site responds to all the rumours , as it is quite obvious from the posts that most of their clients /punters are totally confused with all that has happened up to now..

Len Sham Wrote:

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> Would be nice if any one from Phumelela who reads
> the site responds to all the rumours , as it is
> quite obvious from the posts that most of their
> clients /punters are totally confused with all
> that has happened up to now..


100% - Just tell us what's going on while you still have a channel to broadcast on

I see that the article on News24 covering this topic attracted exactly zero comments from the public at large, so it's quite obvious (to the clan anyway, if not to Big P) that this forum represents their target audience. It would be useful if they would get off their high horse, and fill us in.

On the other hand, perhaps they just don't know, or care, what happens next.

As I understand it (and I may be totally wrong - so clarity from anywhere would be nice :), nothing has changed:

1. Multichoice has decided that TT on 239 will cease on 26 March
2: TT / P is in discussions with Multichoice for a short tem reprieve (3 or 6 months)

Independent of the above TT has decided (been forced? ) to take only local racing on 239 (apart from some exceptions like Cheltenham yesterday) - anyone wishing to watch overseas racing will need to buy a new decoder (Dilog decoder? ) of which they only have enough to supply their 'bookmaker customers' (who is willing to fork out 3% of their 'over the counter turnover on SA and International racing').

So where do we go from here :X

I heard that the dilog decoder is R6000....any truth in this??

at the moment 239 works for local racing and as a home user you are supposed to link into tabonline.co.za and register for the internet live streaming for international racing. I hope we'll be able to watch Dubai World Cup day!! ...until they have figured out what to do with home viewers.