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Originally Posted by Stillriledup

Someone has to pay the announcer's salary....maybe if the track saves money on salaries they could pass that savings onto the customer? I don't know how the math works, but if the customers can get better prices on bets and concessions and drfs they would probably do without the announcer.

Tracks do all have announcers, so maybe the math works out for them, maybe they have determined that an announcer creates bigger betting handles by adding excitement to calls, i dont think tracks would pay announcers a salary if the revenue the announcer created was less than the actual salary.

As far as whether people prefer an announcer or not, i think the real question is does an announcer get people to bet more money on a particular track. Maybe if the Announcer is Durkin or Denman, but what about a track where the announcer is criticized a lot, like maybe Tampa for example. Are people betting more money because of Richard Grunder?

I'm not even going to get into this with you. Have a good evening