GBI not happy with the bookies

It has come to our attention that certain bookmakers, including Marshalls World of Sport, Keith Ho BetXchange, Sepels Best Bets and certain branches of Hollywoodbets.net, have been displaying live British thoroughbred horse racing in their betting shops without being authorised to do so.
The display of British racing outside of the UK is licensed exclusively to GBI Racing by Racing UK and Attheraces. GBI Racing in turn has authorised Tellytrack to sub-license betting operators to display British racing in betting shops in South Africa.
The display of British racing in betting shops in South Africa without a valid sub-license to do so constitutes a breach of our rights (including copyright). A breach of copyright has civil as well as criminal consequences.
Bookmakers who are displaying British racing without a valid sub-license are hereby called upon to immediately cease infringing our rights by displaying British racing.
GBI Racing, Racing UK and Attheraces shall take all steps as are available to them in order to protect their rights without further notice.

why dont the bookies not strike a deal with GBI instead of TT?

Are they not going to be showing UK racing again on the 1st August ?

There has been nothing coming from Tellytrack has there?
If 1st August is a done deal why not announce it!

I doubt GBI have any pull with the gambling boards

So they think the have the only right to "sell" UK horseracing? Maybe
they should tell Racing UK that as anyone can get a subscription and
"play it on three separate devices" direct from Racing UK. A cheap
subscription to FilmOn will give you the HRTV channel which shows
GBI feed on Saturday afternoons, and there are numerous other
subscription services available that offer horse racing. The UK
Channel 4 is a freely available non-subscription service that shows
all the quality UK racing. The free-to-air Dubai Racing TV also has
extensive coverage of UK racing.

They cannot claim that these are "illegal" services, as you can pay
by credit card, and the banks in South Africa, with their very strict
FICA rules, would never allow payment to any illegal entity.

So buy direct from Racing UK, it's the right thing to do, as all the
funds are returned directly to racing (or so their advertising says).

Racing UK International Subscription

Where does my subscription money go?

Racing UK is collectively owned by the 34 racecourses in the UK it represents,
and all profits go back to them, supporting the industry we’re proud to be part of.

Channel 4 will be showing these race meetings live

Saturday, July 26: Ascot & York

Tuesday, July 29 to Friday, August 1: Glorious Goodwood

Saturday, August 2: Glorious Goodwood & Newmarket

Easiest way to view them is to download the FilmOn app, and
Channel 4 is a free-to-air channel. I am sure Bob will post more
links next week so that everyone can enjoy Glorious Goodwood.

Greg Murrell wrote: Channel 4 will be showing these race meetings live

Saturday, July 26: Ascot & York

Tuesday, July 29 to Friday, August 1: Glorious Goodwood

Saturday, August 2: Glorious Goodwood & Newmarket

Easiest way to view them is to download the FilmOn app, and
Channel 4 is a free-to-air channel. I am sure Bob will post more
links next week so that everyone can enjoy Glorious Goodwood.

Channel 4 will show probably the 1st 5 races every day,so plenty to watch

plus saturday they usually show between 6 and 10 races over 3 tracks

When the overseas service started it was agreed that the 3% tax generated on winning bets struck with bookmakers would be used to cover the cost of receiving the picture etc.The local operators dont put on the show so have no direct cost.As far as bookmakers can acertain the funds generated from overseas racing which the operators should pay over to the producers therefore last year would be over R20 million rand.NOT ONE CENT HAS BEEN PAID OVER SINCE INTERNATIONAL RACING STARTED.Our beloved operators accuse bookmakers of not paying for the picture but they pocket the cash.BOOKMAKERS PLEASE SEND COPIES OF YOUR PAYMENTS TO THE OVERSEAS OPERATORS TO SHOW HOW OUR OPERATORS "OPERATE"

I hear the guy from GBI and TT are just carbon copies of each other

both run badly

can the tag teaming by them be held against them in court?

The channel 4 feed is superb including the morning show build up.