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"bert" wrote in message
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Yes but it's a cartel of 20 member companies in a monopoly position
and my point is
that would not be allowed outside sport and you still haven't come up
with an example
to contradict me but keep trying.
It sits on top of another cartel the Championship with strict rules
on entry and exit.
The further down the chain you go the less attractive it is to TV and
so becomes of
lesser consequence.

The Royal Horticultural Society is equally strict as to who it will
admit and who it will allow to exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Which is the only horticultural show to be shown on national TV
every year. And for which the two up market(ish) broadcasting
organisations - the BBC and Channel4 regularly bid.

There are many other flower shows outside the control of the RHS There
isn't enough interest in them to warrant TV coverage. Nothing to stop
you trying to establish one though
Crufts was in the same position until all the broo-hah-hah about
in-breeding, and in-bred faults, which cost it its popularity and
relegation to a minority channel.
I said outside sport and in it's broadest sense dog showing is a sport.
You are correct in that the Kennel Club does impose control over canine
activity of those dogs with pedigrees on their register. They don't
control sheepdog trials.


So there are two examples for a start.



michael adams

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bert