Fox owns 33% of speedvision, and are trying to buy the rest. Hopefully the
remainder of the shareholders will say no.
NASCAR sucks. The speedvision programming is much more interesting, and
closer to what I used to get to watch when I lived in England. I'd just
got used to watching Formula 1, Touring cars and motorcycle racing again
:(
Giles
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, John J. Stimson-III wrote:
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:51:58 -0700
> From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@idsfa.net>
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> 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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