Smaller racecourses dissatisfied with share of media rights revenue, but will now sign agreement negotiated by Horse Racing Ireland
At one point, UIR received a counter €100,000 per fixture offer from Arena Racing Company. That would have put home viewing of their fixtures on Sky Sports Racing rather behind than the Racing TV paywall. UIR also said it wanted individual tracks to be able to negotiate their own media rights sales.
It prompted fresh talks between UIR, HRI and the Association of Irish Racecourses on Wednesday, and an outcome was finally settled on Friday evening.UIR’s spokesman Pierce Molony said: “Having satisfied our principal objectives, UIR has agreed to sign up to the current media rights deal negotiated between HRI and RMG/SIS.
Privately, others within UIR expressed the view on Friday that the intervention of PAC’s chairman, Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley, was instrumental in a resolution being found to what had become an increasingly bitter dispute. “I can confirm that Kilbeggan, Roscommon, Sligo, Limerick and Thurles have decided to join the other 21 racecourses today and sign that deal. Furthermore, I look forward to working with SIS and RMG now and seeing it come to fruition.”
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