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Re: racing was Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?

To: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>, Giles Douglas <giles@vy.com>,
Subject: Re: racing was Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
From: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
Speedvision GT's - especially when Derek Bell get's
hit.

Speedvision TC - huge fields. They should have more
events.


Craig
--- James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net> wrote:
> what is the best racing today?  i mean, besides *US*
> of course.
> 
> people say F1 is boring- no overtaking.
> 
> CART is full of bozos and amateurs
> 
> IRL is worse
> 
> NASCAR, well to me they aint race cars and ovals
> bore me.
> 
> the chance of seeing anything else is pretty remote
> for me.
> 
> -james c
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Giles Douglas <giles@vy.com>
> To: John J. Stimson-III <john@idsfa.net>
> Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
> 
> 
> > 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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