Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Administration [Gaming] › Chapter Game 24 - Intertrack wagering › Subchapter III - Interstate Broadcasts or Simulcasting › Section Game 24.14 - Duties of a Wisconsin host track in conducting simulcast wagering

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) The
						Wisconsin host track shall do all of the following:
(a) Conduct simulcast wagering via core to
						core or (TIM) to tote transmissions with the out-of-state guest
						track.
(b) Be responsible for the
						content of its broadcast and use all reasonable effort to present a broadcast
						which offers the viewers an accurate depiction of its race performance, a
						display of wagering information, and a continuity of programming between racing
						events. All equipment to be utilized in the generation, transmission,
						reception, or in any way affecting the audiovisual signal for which ratings are
						supplied shall be rated as broadcast quality by the federal communications
						commission.
(c) Provide all the
						following:
1. An uplink system or other
						systems or devices approved by the division.
2. A transponder or other systems or devices
						approved by the division.
3.
						Security controls over its communication system, as approved by the division,
						as are necessary to protect the security of the signals, protect the best
						interests of the public and to maximize revenues to the state as approved by
						the division.
(d)
						Encrypt every audiovisual signal transmitted via satellite using a time
						displacement decoding algorithm encryption system which has been approved by
						the division or an equivalent encryption system approved by the division. Any
						method of transmitting audiovisual signals may not be used until approved by
						the division.
(e) Maintain a
						facsimile machine utilizing an independent private telephone line located in
						the vicinity of the mutuel or totalizator room. Except as provided under par.
						(f), any changes in the host track race performance shall be transmitted by
						facsimile machine by the mutuel manager. All information shall be faxed on
						report forms approved by the division.
(f) Maintain a direct telephone line in the
						totalizator room. The direct private line telephone communication will be used
						to relay information during instances when facsimile transmission is not
						possible, or when facsimile transmission is not timely due to urgency of
						communication.
(g) Ensure that the
						primary means of transmitting wagering data is through a dedicated digital data
						line or a line of sufficient speed as approved in advance by the division.
						There shall be backup data lines in the event of primary line failure. The
						backup lines may be dial-up lines. In all circumstances when a dial-up line is
						used as a backup method of transmission, a report shall be filed with the
						division within 48 hours. The report shall contain the date and time of the
						occurrence, the duration, the steps that were taken to correct it, and, if
						known, the reason for the failure.
(h) Communicate from the host track mutuel
						manager to all guest track mutuel managers or their designee immediately upon
						receipt of the information wagering format changes or other information
						relative to the races or wagering thereon. Host track and guest track mutuel
						managers shall notify totalizator managers, the public, and division staff
						where applicable upon receipt of the information.
(i) Not delay post times for purposes of
						accumulating wagers from guest track locations, with the exception of an
						emergency which requires a manual merge of wagering data as described in s.
						Game 24.17(2)
						(a). Post times for a race displayed at host
						track locations and guest track locations shall be the same, with time zones
						taken into consideration.
(j) Keep
						at least one television monitor, in a location to be approved by the division,
						exclusively for reviewing the outgoing signal being sent to its guest track
						facilities during a simulcast performance.
(k) Issue the stop bet command at the moment
						the lure begins its movement.