It will be very hard for the racing industry to replace what FanDuel TV meant to the sport with its wall-to-wall coverage of races from across the country and its ability to attract new fans to the sport. But according to Tony Allevato, NYRA's chief revenue officer and the president of NYRA Bets, his team is ready to do what it can to bring more racing to the television audience in an effort to make up for the loss of FanDuel TV.FanDuel announced last week that it will soon start showing only the track feeds, which will not include commentary from its stable of on-air talent. FanDuel TV is expected to go off the air completely around the end of 2027.NYRA has worked with Fox since 2016, and the partnership has meant extensive coverage of racing from NYRA, along with coverage of major races from other tracks. In 2025, Fox, and its affiliate sports networks, aired about 1,000 hours of racing coverage through the shows America's Day at the Races, Saratoga Live, and the broadcast of the GI Belmont Stakes.“I preface this by saying it's been five days since the announcement, which caught everybody a little bit by surprise,” Allevato said. “It's a very fluid situation and we're trying to wrap our heads around it. But the short answer is, yes, we are looking to help fill a void in a couple of different ways. (FanDuel TV) gave fans easy access to racing. Regardless of the other ways that you can consume racing, it was a very easy, digestible way that you could watch racing with commentary. That's a big hole that's now going to exist.“Obviously, our number one priority is to grow racing in New York, but we also are aware that for New York racing to succeed, we need a strong industry across the country. So right now, our goal is to create a plan and figure out what we're going to do and how we can get the distribution.”Allevato said that one of the first priorities will be to add coverage of more stakes races from around the country to the America's Day at the Races show. The April 11 show will include coverage of the GIII Lexington Stakes and the GI Jenny Wiley Stakes from Keeneland. It will mark the first time that Keeneland races will appear on America's Day at the Races. The program will also include the showing of the GI Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn.“Fox is always interested in premier content, premier racing,” Allevato said. “I think this is going to fast track that to do more with some of the premier racetracks that we're talking about.”While coverage of major stakes from tracks like Keeneland and Oaklawn will be welcome, there's still the issue of what will happen with the everyday races that were a staple of FanDuel's coverage.“Nothing is off the table in terms of what Fox might want to do on a daily basis, but the approach has always been quality over quantity and showing the best racing around the country,” Allevato said. “The flip side of that is how do we give fans what they've come to expect in terms of easily accessible content with commentary that they're not having to pay for? So we're bouncing ideas around and trying to maybe come up with a program that could bounce from track to track. I would compare it to the NFL's RedZone channel. We might be able to bounce from track to track with a single host or two hosts giving you commentary. That's something that could live on a digital platform that's available in multiple places, including ADWs and sportsbooks, but also to a general consumer. That's kind of the approach we're looking at right now.“It's twofold. It's one, how do we do more and pick up more with Fox and pick up some of the content that's out there and give it a home on linear television? And then, secondly, working with Fox, could we potentially create a second channel that could live in multiple places that would give people access to that? And again, it's very fluid and things could change a little bit, but that's kind of the approach that we're taking.”Allevato admitted that once the Saratoga meet starts, it will be harder to pivot to racing at other tracks.“In May and June, we can bounce around to multiple tracks,” he said. “It's when we get to Saratoga that we really focus solely on Saratoga racing because we feel that it's the best racing in the world at that time. We like to tell the stories that go into each race and help to build a fan base that way. So we've kind of looked at that as a little bit different programming than the rest of the year. Does that mean that we couldn't potentially add other top-tier tracks during that timeframe? Probably. We're definitely open to it and we're going to look at it.”Before coming to NYRA, Allevato was an executive producer with TVG, the name of the network before it was rebranded as FanDuel TV.“I went through a version of this when I was at TVG when the bill to legalize ADW wagering in California was vetoed at the time by Governor Gray Davis,” he said. “I was at the Arc and I got a phone call from Mark Wilson, our CEO, saying, 'Hey, when you get back, we have to lay off 40% of the staff.' I can't imagine what it was like on Friday at FanDuel for the employees to come in and to be told, essentially, that everybody is going to be out of work, either June 30th or at the end of November. So the first thing that went through my mind is the employees and what they went through. There's a lot of great people who have worked there for a quarter of a century and for whom this is all they know. This is their livelihood. This is their career. They lived and breathed horse racing and horse racing on television that whole time.”The post NYRA, Fox Will Look to Fill Void Left by FanDuel TV’s Demise appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.