{"id":9496,"date":"2022-03-04T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2022-03-04T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T10:15:43","slug":"sabc-sport-and-4racing-sign-horseracing-broadcast-deal-for-daily-talk-show-and-premier-live-race-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc-sport-and-4racing-sign-horseracing-broadcast-deal-for-daily-talk-show-and-premier-live-race-days\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC SPORT AND 4RACING SIGN HORSERACING BROADCAST DEAL FOR DAILY TALK SHOW AND PREMIER LIVE RACE DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johannesburg \u2013 Friday, 4 March 2022\u00a0<\/strong>–\u00a0SABC Sport<\/a>\u00a0is pleased to announce the signing of a multi-year deal with 4Racing to ensure horseracing is accessible and available to the broader South African public on free-to-air television.<\/p>\n

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The agreement will see 4Racing produce and broadcast a daily 30-minute horse racing talk show called \u2018Racing Today\u2019 on SABC Sport from Monday to Friday over a three-year period for 50 weeks a year. Additionally, 10 of the country\u2019s top showpiece horse racing events will be broadcast live in primetime on S3.<\/p>\n

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The new daily talk show \u2018Racing Today\u2019<\/em> on SABC Sport will cover all things horse racing, while live coverage of the best local and international races will deliver the exhilaration, drama, and prestige that is synonymous with racing to SABC\u2019s viewers.<\/p>\n

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Gary Rathbone, Head of SABC Sport said \u201cHorse racing has long been a major part of the SABC Sport<\/a>\u2019s <\/u>offering and after a long absence from our platforms, it\u2019s great to have the sport of kings back on air. Being able to feature South Africa\u2019s best thoroughbreds and champion jockeys fighting it out in these iconic races on the annual calendar is something that will excite millions of South Africans who will now be able to access the best racing on offer live and free on the SABC.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stephen Watson, Head of 4Racing TV and Executive Director of Discover Digital, said \u201cthis deal with SABC is a significant one for us at 4Racing and for all current and prospective punters and racegoers who love the sport. We have been working with SABC over the last year and this partnership has already seen live coverage of major race days such as the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met and Summer Cup and the L\u2019Ormarins Queens Plate, while we\u2019ve also assisted Gold Circle to get one of the country\u2019s biggest and most important race days, the Gold Cup, broadcast live on S3. So we are excited with this long-term partnership with the SABC, which will add more value to punters, sponsors and stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018Racing Today\u2019<\/em> will air from 4 April 2022 at 5pm, Monday to Friday on the 24-hour SABC Sports Channel on the SABC\u2019s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service, on the Openview HD Channel 124 and on the TelkomONE streaming service.<\/p>\n

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The SABC remains committed to broadcasting sports of national interest to millions of South African citizens.<\/p>\n

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NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T<\/strong><\/a>. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0513<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johannesburg \u2013 Friday, 4 March 2022\u00a0–\u00a0SABC Sport\u00a0is pleased to announce the signing of a multi-year deal with 4Racing to ensure horseracing is accessible and available to the broader South African public on free-to-air television.   The agreement will see 4Racing produce and broadcast a daily 30-minute horse racing talk show called \u2018Racing Today\u2019 on SABC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}