Re:2 speedvision ... "The Speed Channel"

[John_Torello@domain.elided]

>>Everyone seems worried about this, but no one !}fmt seems to notice that
>>Speedvision currently is starved for content.  They repeat races 4-5
>>times, they have hours of infomercials every day.  The vintage stuff
>>is going to appeal to the NASCAR crowd, so I doubt that will disappear
>>(although maybe they'll only show Goodwood or the Historics once or
>>twice instead of 10-15 times).  The young import crowd (see the rags)
>>are really starting to notice rallying in a big way, so they'd be
>>foolish to remove that.  I note, in fact, that they're showing 3.5
>>hours of coverage of the Monte Carlo Rally this week, over four days.
>>Sounds like they may actually cover most of the rally, not just the
>>hour-long highlight shows we've been getting.

My concern is that although they may be starved for content now (winter), what's
the forcast for prime racing season? There are a lot of NASCAR related series
out there(and a myriad of talk shows--save me!), and throughout the Summer they
could easily show only NASCAR type events. I could  imagine Touring Car, Porsche
Supercup, Vintage, Goodwood, all formula other than F1, cool "lap of the gods"
vids and a variety of other stuff getting dropped. It's bad enough they have
lawnmower racing on the weekends now. It was kind of funny at first, but it's
getting ridiculous. Hey, maybe Speedchannel will cover the AROC time trials this
year. I'd much rather watch that. Seriously, keep in mind that it all boils down
to viewership and $$$. There are 1000 NASCAR fans to every sportscar racing fan.
You can't sell Tide or Uncle Ben's during Rally highlights or Australian V8's ;)

-JT

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