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Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?

To: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@idsfa.net>
Subject: Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
From: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:06:05 -0700
> (which for some weird reason seems to include Golf).

argh.  thats all i get on broadcast TV.  while the CART race or F1 race is
on, i have images of dudes and chicks standing around on a lawn.  :(

speedvision is the only thing slightly tempting about cable.  darn.  we
already can see most of the NAStyCAR races on broadcast.

-james


----- Original Message -----
From: John J. Stimson-III <john@idsfa.net>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?


> This doesn't look so good.  Fox (who owns Speedvision) wants to create
> a NASCAR channel, with mostly NASCAR and NASCAR related programming
> (which for some weird reason seems to include Golf).  They're planning
> to do it by renaming Speedvision.
>
> http://charlotte.bcentral.com/charlotte/stories/2001/06/25/story1.html
>
> I wrote my response to this to info@speedvision.com.  I don't know if
> that's the best address to use.  Maybe programming@speedvision.com, or
> someone at Fox.
>
> If this happens, then I'll no longer be annoyed that AT&T in Sunnyvale
> doesn't offer Speedvision.  I'll just be annoyed that Speedvision
> doesn't even exist.
>
> Who wants to start a motorsports-oriented network with diverse
> programming?  We could do a WWF-style miniseries on SFR Solo2 Street
> Mod, complete with pre-event trash talk.  Plus the purple car should
> give us a boost in ratings.  It sure worked for "Night Man"...Navid,
> how would you feel about wearing blue plastic body armor?
>
> --
>
> john@idsfa.net                                              John Stimson
> http://www.idsfa.net/~john/                              HMC Physics '94

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