When Will the Meadowlands Wake Up About Jessica Otten and Dave Little?

[Chips N Salsa]

Let’s talk about the elephant in the broadcast booth: Jessica Otten and Dave Little are driving people away from the Meadowlands product.

These two spend every broadcast talking 100mph about absolutely nothing anyone actually cares about. It's a constant stream of personal opinions, inside jokes, and commentary so detached from the average bettor's experience that it’s borderline unwatchable. They sound more like they’re doing a live podcast for their friends than hosting a national racing broadcast.

Here’s a suggestion: watch TVG. Those broadcasters know how to actually serve the audience — they educate, inform, and most importantly, focus on the horses, trainers, and wagering strategy, not their own gambling habits.

No one watching cares how much you are betting, what you played in the pick 5, or how tilted you are tonight. This isn’t your diary. Your job is to help the betting public — not pretend you're giving some masterclass on how to be a degenerate gambler.

Meadowlands, if you want to be taken seriously again as a top-tier betting product, clean up the booth. The constant babble, lack of clear wagering advice, and self-indulgent nonsense is turning your broadcasts into background noise — and not the kind anyone wants to hear.

You have world-class racing. Now act like it.

[Kirbys Ace]

Remember the saying "You get what you paid for"

 

[Cleanupindustry]

Jessica otten has to be the most annoying person in horse racing today. Cackling voice. Not attractive and voice  omg I put tv on mute every time they come on

[gh2009]

Let’s talk about the elephant in the broadcast booth: Jessica Otten and Dave Little are driving people away from the Meadowlands product.

These two spend every broadcast talking 100mph about absolutely nothing anyone actually cares about. It's a constant stream of personal opinions, inside jokes, and commentary so detached from the average bettor's experience that it’s borderline unwatchable. They sound more like they’re doing a live podcast for their friends than hosting a national racing broadcast.

Here’s a suggestion: watch TVG. Those broadcasters know how to actually serve the audience — they educate, inform, and most importantly, focus on the horses, trainers, and wagering strategy, not their own gambling habits.

No one watching cares how much you are betting, what you played in the pick 5, or how tilted you are tonight. This isn’t your diary. Your job is to help the betting public — not pretend you're giving some masterclass on how to be a degenerate gambler.

Meadowlands, if you want to be taken seriously again as a top-tier betting product, clean up the booth. The constant babble, lack of clear wagering advice, and self-indulgent nonsense is turning your broadcasts into background noise — and not the kind anyone wants to hear.

You have world-class racing. Now act like it.

TVG/FanDuel does a good job covering T-bred racing, but almost all their commentators except Dave Weaver have little or no knowledge when it comes to harness racing and it shows when they're on the air.

[Harness racer]

Remember the saying "You get what you paid for"

 

My god I hope they didn’t buy Dave Little by the pound! 

[pocketrocketwinner]

Regarding an approach to gambling, every single thing they say and every single strategy they teach is 100% wrong. Gural and settlemoir have no idea how much these 2 have hurt their business. People actually listen and learn from them. Then they never come back again

[gh2009]

Do you honestly believe the average viewer tunes into the broadcast to hear their picks, I don't. In recent years track commentators are always coming up with Pick 4 and Pick 5 tickets including the people on TVG/FanDuel. Whether they're required to do it I'm not sure, but half of them have trouble picking 1 winner, let alone 4 or 5.

[Birdfantammy]

Jessica otten has to be the most annoying person in horse racing today. Cackling voice. Not attractive and voice  omg I put tv on mute every time they come on

So glad I'm not the only one!   Ortem is the main reason I stopped playing Meadowlands.    I can't stand her.  If ibdpnwatch I have to mute it. Her voice is so friggin annoying.   I think those 2 clowns are part of the problem.  They talk shit and nothing else

[gh2009]

Dave is good on post-race interviews but nothing else, Jessica is only there because she's a woman, and for some reason racetracks think it attracts more male viewers, but it really doesn't.

[pocketrocketwinner]

Do you honestly believe the average viewer tunes into the broadcast to hear their picks, I don't. In recent years track commentators are always coming up with Pick 4 and Pick 5 tickets including the people on TVG/FanDuel. Whether they're required to do it I'm not sure, but half of them have trouble picking 1 winner, let alone 4 or 5.

I don't think it. I know it. Those horrible tvg bets they put out have been destroying their audience for decades. Far worse, it's the customers who are newer to racing that listen and tail the bets. Nobody is tuning in strictly for picks but when you walk i to the M1 of TVG, you are hit over the head with garbage wagering advice. New people believe those bets are the right way to approach it. They have no clue just how bad it is.

[Onthefront11]

It's definitely getting old, they should've just let Gabe take over

[gh2009]

I don't think it. I know it. Those horrible tvg bets they put out have been destroying their audience for decades. Far worse, it's the customers who are newer to racing that listen and tail the bets. Nobody is tuning in strictly for picks but when you walk i to the M1 of TVG, you are hit over the head with garbage wagering advice. New people believe those bets are the right way to approach it. They have no clue just how bad it is.

They throw so many stats at you to make themselves look smart and some people actually do believe they're experts and know what they're talking about. TVG/FanDuel is mainly a T-bred network, and they don't have anyone with enough knowledge about harness racing other than Dave Weaver to make selections and give out Pick 4 and Pick 5 tickets, but they do anyway. Their commentary about harness racing is basically worthless.

[Locked in with pace]

There is a downward trend in the handle. I mean, IT'S terrible. The 2 used to rave about how they are hitting the 3 million dollar mark each night. Last night, they missed that total by a MILLION DOLLARS. Dont be surprised if changes are made. 

[gh2009]

I heard they tried raising the host fees on many of the ADW's and alot of them balked at it, and they're no longer taking their signal.

[Kirbys Ace]

My god I hope they didn’t buy Dave Little by the pound! 

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