www.facebook.com Jimmy Pursey interviews trainers, bookmakers and kennel men in the leadup to the 2011 wimbledon greyhound derby. Add the Mick TheMiller facebook page for more info
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This clip is taken from the original 1987 promo video put together by SIS, and mailed to potential clients. The company is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. www.sis.tv / www.sislive.tv Satellite Information Services celebrates 25 years of broadcasting to the betting industry. On the 5th May SIS Ltd, the foremost supplier of television programming and data services to the UK and Ireland betting industry celebrates the 25th anniversary of its first broadcast. SIS also incorporates uplink, outside broadcast and product design divisions, collectively known as SIS LIVE. Following legislation passed in 1986 which, for the first time, allowed TV screens into betting shops, SIS began to set up satellite broadcasting systems which would transmit images of horse and greyhound racing into betting shops. At the time this was pioneering technology, coming, as it did, a few years before Sky was even created. Prior to this, bookmakers could only play out an audio commentary with a ‘board man’ marking up the results and odds in their shops, so this signalled a massive change for the industry. The original SIS service launched on 5th May 1987, broadcasting horseracing from Chester racecourse and Hackney greyhounds to just two hundred shops in the Bristol and Colchester regions. This service rapidly rolled out to the rest of the country, and in this first year of operations SIS’s first Standard Text Display system, known as TDC, also launched to the licensed betting office market …
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