Speed is officially Fox Sports 1 on 8/17/13 | FerrariChat

Speed is officially Fox Sports 1 on 8/17/13

Discussion in 'Other Racing' started by GuyIncognito, Mar 5, 2013.

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.

  1. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Nine Time F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 30, 2007
    91,682
  2. ferraripete

    ferraripete F1 World Champ

    i would not call it good news but it is news nonetheless. ohhhhhh i miss two wheel tuesday...saturday night thunder...

    rip speedvision.
     
  3. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Nine Time F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 30, 2007
    91,682
    +1

    Two Wheel Tuesday was awesome (that just happened to be during my bike riding years...sigh)

    they also had a lot of military/airplane shows, though most of those have migrated to Military Channel.

    now we get "RU faster than a redneck" and UFC. :(
     
  4. ferraripete

    ferraripete F1 World Champ

    chas, it is sad to think that there must be so few of us out here that we simply cannot drive or even represent a market w/ any specific gravity. :(
     
  5. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Nine Time F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 30, 2007
    91,682
    see also: ALMS :(

    although I would have thought a racing only channel with cars/bikes/planes/boats would have critical mass. I guess I was wrong.
     
  6. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    The kids have their dang gum fancy interwebs, Walkmans and
    Donkey Kongs now.

    Television hasn't got a chance.

    BHW
     
  7. Turbopanzer

    Turbopanzer F1 World Champ

    Oct 2, 2011
    11,120
    Under a bonnet
    Full Name:
    Panzer
    You forgot ESPN's Larry Nuber & Bob Jenkins. When racing was real.
     
  8. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    Don't worry racing (ur…) NASCAR fans, FOX Sports 1 has you covered with
    NASCAR SPRINT CUP PRACTICE, NCWTS QUALIFYING, NASCAR SPRINT CUP
    FINAL PRACTICE and NCWTS RACING.

    What would we do if we couldn't see NASCAR practice and qualifying sessions?
    Other forms of racing? Not so much...

    At least they're keeping MotoGP on the air.

    Don't Worry SPEED Fans: Fox Sports 1 Has Motorsports covered!
     
  9. Turbopanzer

    Turbopanzer F1 World Champ

    Oct 2, 2011
    11,120
    Under a bonnet
    Full Name:
    Panzer
    Will the Kyle vs Danica story be continued???? OHHHHH THE DRAMA OF IT ALL!!!! :D
     
  10. V-TWELVE

    V-TWELVE Formula 3

    Jan 1, 2007
    1,800
    Vancouver, BC
    Speed Channel had motorsports? I thought all it had was reality shows and infomercials. Who knew!
     
  11. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    That's the beautiful irony of it all...

    BHW
     
  12. Kevin Rev'n

    Kevin Rev'n Two Time F1 World Champ
    Owner Silver Subscribed

    Nov 29, 2009
    22,962
    Honolulu
    Full Name:
    Kevin
    +2 Especially in the beginning when they used to show EVERY lap of EVERY race. I was addicted to the TV on Tuesday afternoons...until they started with the themed show(s) and that bald headed dude and started just showing racing highlights. I am sort of thankful because I was able to quit the Tuesday TV habit due to them tinkering and wrecking the perfect programming they had before....which cost them much less IMO by just airing the pre-broadcasted races as opposed to producing a show(s) and generating content!
     
  13. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    It's starting to look as though these sports networks are going to take over the
    cable and satellite menus. They're all running after ESPN's market share but ESPN
    has been around (what?) 30+ years now and with it's association with ABC looks
    to be in a solid position.

    With all the sports channel expansion, however, we may only hope that things don't
    get as diluted as they have with the cable "news" networks which seem to be in a
    race to the bottom with FOX once again leading the way.

    It seems all of them want a piece of MLB, NFL, NBA, etc. (stick & ball sports) but each
    of these organizations also have their own 24/7 dedicated networks which brings things
    back to NASCAR.

    If NASCAR wants their product out in front of an audience 24/7, why not just start their
    own network? They fully sucked all of the life out of Speed which was predictable and
    reports are that networks they have contracts with to show their races aren't happy as
    the audience is drifting away and NASCAR blocks up so much of their air time they have
    no where to move.

    The over saturation of TV sports may well be their undoing. Last year, under terms of the
    new deal between the NFL and participating networks, they granted 500 (extra) hours of
    TV broadcast time. So, the sports PR machines like ESPN start cranking up the NFL hype
    as early as June and it's now in full pitch that training camps have started. Watching
    ESPN today, one might think they were in mid-season as it is wall-to-wall NFL news and
    what MLB players are going to be banned for PED's.

    They're stepping all over the number one rule of marketing, over exposure cheapens
    the product. Every event, no matter how insignificant, now get's virtual Super Bowl hype
    which no event may ever live up to.

    BHW
     
  14. 4re Nut

    4re Nut F1 World Champ

    Mar 27, 2004
    16,343
    N of NOLA
    Full Name:
    Steve
    The final days of Speed - SportsBusiness Daily

    Instagram missracer18
     

    Attached Files:

  15. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    Interesting article, thanks for posting.

    As much as we like to think motor sports is this huge entity with a virtually unlimited
    audience of fans around the world, it really accounts for a literal drop in the ocean
    compared to the stick and ball sports and other forms of entertainment.

    We'd like to think that Speed in it's original form would have had a huge following
    even though it played in very limited markets and many had to beg their cable or
    satellite providers to put it on their menus. The sad fact is they probably generated
    more income for the network selling air time to infomercials selling exercise
    equipment and kitchen appliances than they did showing actual racing.

    People working in media any amount of time understand one thing though, their gigs
    can change in an instant at the discretion of a corporate board of directors so the Speed
    staff in Charlotte should be happy at least, they had months to prepare rather than
    a few minutes.

    BHW
     
  16. S Brake

    S Brake F1 World Champ

    Aug 3, 2006
    17,182
    Utah
    Full Name:
    Dave
    I miss the days of WRC, victory by design, etc.
    RIP Speedvision, death by suicide.
     
  17. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    Death by NASCAR more like it...

    BHW
     
  18. 4re Nut

    4re Nut F1 World Champ

    Mar 27, 2004
    16,343
    N of NOLA
    Full Name:
    Steve
    Another interesting article, Voices of Speed: Reflections on the Demise of the Speed Channel | Car and Driver

    Snippet...

     
  19. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    Hopefully, Werner's drink will be as watered down as the channel he founded became due
    to his allowing NASCAR to get a foot in the door.

    BHW
     
  20. Turbopanzer

    Turbopanzer F1 World Champ

    Oct 2, 2011
    11,120
    Under a bonnet
    Full Name:
    Panzer
    Nah......just on the rocks. The ice will do the rest!!!
     
  21. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Nine Time F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 30, 2007
    91,682
    good article.

    this sentence, buried at the bottom of the article, tells me a lot:

    traditional racing (NASCAR, sports car, Indy, even amateur racing like SCCA) is decidedly NOT a GenX/GenY/Millenial sport, and those old fogeys tend to be stuck in the past and bitter....not exactly the dynamic, upbeat, discretionary income 18-34 y.o. audience advertisers love.
     
  22. rcraig

    rcraig F1 Rookie

    Dec 7, 2005
    2,946
    Maryland
    Full Name:
    Bob Craig
    Well they better watch out, because those favored young kids do not watch TV. Motorsports tend to lose a bit on a two inch screen.
     
  23. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Nine Time F1 World Champ
    Silver Subscribed

    Jun 30, 2007
    91,682
    you are correct, those kids don't watch traditional racing but they do watch drifting and rallycross in 15 second youtube clips...
     
  24. BartonWorkman

    BartonWorkman F1 Veteran
    Sponsor

    Nov 3, 2003
    6,086
    En El 305
    Full Name:
    Barton Workman
    And this is exactly what motor sport of all types must be addressing, an aging demographic
    and a younger demographic which could hardly care less about getting driver's licenses
    much less sitting in front of a TV for eight hours watching 50's technology cars going
    roundy-round.

    The kids today which are into racing like guys like Ken Block and they're hip to technology.
    Racing must be looking forward 10 and 20 years from now and deciding where their
    interests will be best served if racing wishes to continue being relevant, otherwise that
    $400M investment DIS is putting into completely re-constructing their front grandstand
    may will be ending up in tomorrow's scrap heap.

    BHW
     

Share This Page