Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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Tikay, that delicious but worrying equation above can be summarised slightly more basically by saying...

1+¹/_(1x2)+¹/_(1x2x3) + ¹/_(1x2x3x4) +.... And so on forever

I'm so glad this diary's here. It keeps all this crap off my diary.

[TightEnd]

Ladbrokes has issued its Q1 interim management statement early, alerting investors that it expects full-year profits to be towards the lower end of expectations following a difficult start to trading in 2013.

Announcing a £13m drop in group operating profit to £37.4m, the bookmaker said several one-off trading events had compounded the shortfall already expected from a £9m hike in gaming machines duty and “the expected weighting of growth in Digital revenues.”

These one-off events in the three months to 31 March 2013 were spearheaded by a £6m fall in revenue from the Cheltenham Festival, where a string of heavily backed favourites including Gold Cup winner Bobs Worth came home, helping punters profit at the expense of the bookies. Ladbrokes also blamed lower revenues from high-value gaming customers and the impact of horseracing cancellations.

The bookmaker also said it did not expect to reap the full benefits of its new digital partnership with Playtech until 2014, with profits declining in the current year.

Ladbrokes boss Richard Glynn (pictured) however emphasised the betting and egaming group maintained a strong underlying margin performance of 9.6%, reflecting the improvements made to date in that area, and that its digital turnaround remained on track. “Our partnership with Playtech aims to address our underperformance in gaming and accelerate our performance in mobile,” he said.

Ladbrokes will re-launch its mobile offerings on Playtech’s Mobenga platform during 2013, and also go live with a new “Vegas” tab on Ladbrokes.com, offering around 200 Playtech games.

Ladbrokes has engaged the software supplier to engineer the same turnaround it achieved with bitter rival William Hill’s online gaming business, announcing a performance-based software and services agreement last month.

The bookmaker’s overhaul of its digital platform has been plagued with difficulties and delays since it earmarked £50m of investment for the project more than two years ago.

[tikay]

8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

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8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

Trams > F1

[tikay]

8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

Trams > F1

Or even watch both. Both contain a bunch of historical footage.

Hw good is BBC FOUR?

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8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

Trams > F1

Or even watch both. Both contain a bunch of historical footage.

Hw good is BBC FOUR?

Faced with a choice, would you sacrifice BBC FOUR or Radio 4?

[tikay]

8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

Trams > F1

Or even watch both. Both contain a bunch of historical footage.

Hw good is BBC FOUR?

Faced with a choice, would you sacrifice BBC FOUR or Radio 4?

It would have to be BBC FOUR that got the chop.

Radio 4 has been my friend for the best part of my life. It is always there, even though at night it morphs into the equally excellent BBC World Service.

I used to drive at night a great deal, & in the early, lonely, hours, it was so good.

Who would easily yield "Book at Bedtime", "Today in Parliament", & "The Shipping Forecast"?

Or TMS, perhaps the best wireless programme ever, not many Shows have given more pleasure, to more peple, for longer.

Or Humph, & "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"?

Too much, too good.

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8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

Trams > F1

Or even watch both. Both contain a bunch of historical footage.

Hw good is BBC FOUR?

Faced with a choice, would you sacrifice BBC FOUR or Radio 4?

It would have to be BBC FOUR that got the chop.

Radio 4 has been my friend for the best part of my life. It is always there, even though at night it morphs into the equally excellent BBC World Service.

I used to drive at night a great deal, & in the early, lonely, hours, it was so good.

Who would easily yield "Book at Bedtime", "Today in Parliament", & "The Shipping Forecast"?

Or TMS, perhaps the best wireless programme ever, not many Shows have given more pleasure, to more peple, for longer.

Or Humph, & "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"?

Too much, too good.

I'm getting quite fond of 'Any Questions' too, and the obits prog 'Last Words'.

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Just a minute.

Gardeners Question time.

Brain of Britain.

Woman's Hour.

You & Yours.

Material World.....  I could go on.

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And all available via podcast or Listen Again folks!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/a-z/player

[tikay]

8.30pm, BBC FOUR

"That Petrol Emotion"

A look at motor racing, when F1 lit up the world.......with cigarette advertising.

Last of this series, which has been quite outstanding.

Less popular TV Shows may be mentioned in another, less refined, Diary.

Trams > F1

Or even watch both. Both contain a bunch of historical footage.

Hw good is BBC FOUR?

Faced with a choice, would you sacrifice BBC FOUR or Radio 4?

It would have to be BBC FOUR that got the chop.

Radio 4 has been my friend for the best part of my life. It is always there, even though at night it morphs into the equally excellent BBC World Service.

I used to drive at night a great deal, & in the early, lonely, hours, it was so good.

Who would easily yield "Book at Bedtime", "Today in Parliament", & "The Shipping Forecast"?

Or TMS, perhaps the best wireless programme ever, not many Shows have given more pleasure, to more peple, for longer.

Or Humph, & "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"?

Too much, too good.

I'm getting quite fond of 'Any Questions' too, and the obits prog 'Last Words'.

"Last Words" is terrific.

I don't much enjoy "Any Questions", & the same applies, but more so, to "Any Answers".

[tikay]

Just a minute.

Gardeners Question time.

Brain of Britain.

Woman's Hour.

You & Yours.

Material World.....  I could go on.

Boom boom boom, though "You & Yours" drives me nuts.

Only GQT could get me interested in gardening, & the resident panellists are tremendous characters.

Brain of Britain? Truly, the best Quiz ever, on any medium, and it is not even close. I miss Robert Robinson so much though. How eloquent & clever with words was he? And so affable. He used to address the Contestants as "Mr" (or as appropriate), too. Proper civilised.

oooh - one more - "Thinking Allowed (not "Aloud" as some think), with the quite superb Laurie Taylor. Laurie is much under-estimated. I always think he is talking only to me. To be fair, he probably is.

[tikay]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05

[tikay]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Taylor_%28sociologist%29

[Tal]

Is Laurie Taylor the same chap who presents In Confidence on Sky Arts?