Speed Channel REALLY sucks now...thanks FOX?

Question

I think they should rename this station originally concieved for racing...

PINKS...garbage
WHIPS...making bling/garbage
Info-mercials...PUKE

NASCAR...NO comment

and what do you have left...NO ALMS, some F1 coverage, and lot's of whores peppered here and there(just like the website)

FOX really f-cked this one up!

Answer 1

I agree also.
I remember when i could flip Speed Channel on during the weekend and actually watch racing that wasn't on normal TV. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't know how cool the Australian Super Car series is. They also do a nice job covering the Rolex Series and the 24 hrs. of Le Mans.
That said said now during the weekend they may have one race and then five hours of that stupid Barret - Jackson Auto auction or a whole bunch of NASCAR shows that reiterate the same thing.

Answer 2

My feeling too.
I go to there site all the time and leave feedback. Every once in awhile they respond but most of the time they don't.
It's a shame how much racing we miss now that that idiotic FOX has come into the picture. They don't have a clue what the heck is going on.
I am praying to God that ESPN will bring back some of there racing programs they use to show like Thunder.
I stopped watching Speed for the most part about 3 or 4 years ago when they took Two Wheel Tuesday off in the evening and put it on during the majority of there viewing audience's work hours. There a bunch a *****.

Answer 3

The amount of nascar coverage is simply astounding since the change over. I mean a few hours a day is way too much. They say that nascar still brings in the ratings though.

Also, the infomercials are completely ridiculous. If you check their listings it appears that they run a few hours of infomercials each day especially in the morning.

I love PINKS and it is one of their highest rated shows. But Whips is garbage they make bling but they really just do interior and stereo work and subcontract actual mechanical, paint or body improvemenst out to pros. I doubt that Will Castro knows how to change his own oil.

Speed lost a lot of motorcycle programming to Fuel Tv and other networks.

I just want more dirt track like world of outlaws, midgets, silver crown, those races are more entertaining than many other forms of racing. Also, I want the world rally championship back. No series produces a better looking final show that WRC.

Answer 4

I agree. When FOX aquired speedvision, I knew that the channel I loved was dead. I knew they were going to turn it into the NASCAR network. There's way too much goofy stuff on and WAY too much NASCAR. What's wrong with playing reruns of the week's racing like the other FOX sports channels play of their home teems, or some old, classic coverage like ESPN classic airs. But sadly, we are the minority. NASCAR rules around here. They even cut racing coverage of other series to air NASCAR qualifying. QUALIFYING! That's an evil thing to do to racing fans isn't it?

Answer 5

i agree completely if it wasn't for their f1 coverage id never watch it at all but wait you have the rights to f1 and rather than pump it up with a few talking head f1 shows you pump up nascar which you don't air at all ? so what do we get? practice qualifying and race at 7 am and a half hour inside grand prix, and 3 hours a day of nascar

but the real and truly evil and dispicable crime is what they have done to wind tunnel it went from 4 1 hour shows a week to 1 2 hour show and now we get 1 one hour show on sunday night this is the greatest show on tv and now its a Shadow of its former glory

i deffinatly agree with Matt M where is WRC? and A1GP for that matter

Answer 6

I thought I was the only 1 that thought that. I miss watching the SCCA runoffs, the WRC, ALMS, and REAL racing.

Answer 7

Let him...my husband does it but not util he falls asleep. I love it so much. My husband knows it is my call, he always asks never demands, sometimes (pmt) I dont wnt it for 5 to 10 days. He uderstands and doesnt sook or get moidy. Jst be the boss ofyour boobs. Let him suck, with your boundaries.