SATELLITE Information services (SIS) is to set up its own wholly owned television outside broadcast operation to supply pictures from racecourses after the end of the Chrysalis contract in May 1997.
SIS chairman Geoff Lormer said the decision had been reached for "strategic reasons. We have been" entirely satisfied with the performance of Chrysalis over the last four and a half years, but we are confident this is the right way ahead for SIS," he said.
RaceTech said it was disappointed by SIS's decision to go it alone. Sam Harris, RaceTech's managing director, said. "We are pleased that SIS has made it clear that its decision not to proceed on, the basis of the RaceTech proposals had nothing to do with the price or quality of service.
"RaceTech was not, of course, in a position to offer SIS the total control over all pictures which in house provision will give it."
. Trainer Mick Channon was fined £750 by the Jockey Club's disciplinary committee yesterday for a passport mix up that prevented Bride's Reprisal, owned by the wife of football manager Kevin Keegan, making her debut at York in May.
