Attention All: If you like Speedvision and are concerned about it becoming a NASCAR only channel,
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Attention All: If you like Speedvision and are concerned about it becoming a NASCAR only channel,
please take a moment to sign this online petition.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled forum.<ul><li><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/svsn/petition.html">Speedvision online petition</a></li></ul>
I now return you to your regularly scheduled forum.<ul><li><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/svsn/petition.html">Speedvision online petition</a></li></ul>
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Fox already has NASCAR on Fox Sports and FOX FX.
I think somebody added together Fox's show "Totally NASCAR" and their invovlment with Speedvision together to get "Totally NASCAR Speedvision". How in the world could you show 24 hr/dat, 7 day/week, 52 week/year NASCAR anyway?
I, too, would like some evidence before I believe any of this.
I, too, would like some evidence before I believe any of this.
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On the other hand, check out this press article -->
June 22, 2001 Friday
SECTION: Sports; Pg. C02
LENGTH: 1210 words
HEADLINE: Fox rides high on success of NASCAR
BYLINE: Jim Carlisle; Sports writer
BODY:
NASCAR's first season on Fox has been everything the network could have hoped for and then some.
Ratings for the Winston Cup races grew 18 percent over CBS and ABC last year and even more incredible is the growth the sport gave to Fox's cable entities, Fox Sports Net and FX.
On FSN, every NASCAR program, such as "Victory Lane" and "NASCAR This Morning," improved its time slot 60 to 100 percent over what was there before. FX was virtually unknown before NASCAR came along. Now, seven of the network's highest rated programs of all time are NASCAR-related. FX has added 8 million new homes since the channel added NASCAR.
"From the FX perspective, NASCAR has been nothing short of a spectacular success," said FX president Peter Liguori. "...This sport has become a tremendous, cornerstone addition to FX and we can't wait for next season."
Plans are in the works for Fox to acquire Speedvision by the end of the summer and for that cable channel's NASCAR programming to increase dramatically. In fact, we might not be far away from a total NASCAR network.
"I have always had this belief that NASCAR was the sleeping giant of American sport," said Fox Sports chairman David Hill.
SECTION: Sports; Pg. C02
LENGTH: 1210 words
HEADLINE: Fox rides high on success of NASCAR
BYLINE: Jim Carlisle; Sports writer
BODY:
NASCAR's first season on Fox has been everything the network could have hoped for and then some.
Ratings for the Winston Cup races grew 18 percent over CBS and ABC last year and even more incredible is the growth the sport gave to Fox's cable entities, Fox Sports Net and FX.
On FSN, every NASCAR program, such as "Victory Lane" and "NASCAR This Morning," improved its time slot 60 to 100 percent over what was there before. FX was virtually unknown before NASCAR came along. Now, seven of the network's highest rated programs of all time are NASCAR-related. FX has added 8 million new homes since the channel added NASCAR.
"From the FX perspective, NASCAR has been nothing short of a spectacular success," said FX president Peter Liguori. "...This sport has become a tremendous, cornerstone addition to FX and we can't wait for next season."
Plans are in the works for Fox to acquire Speedvision by the end of the summer and for that cable channel's NASCAR programming to increase dramatically. In fact, we might not be far away from a total NASCAR network.
"I have always had this belief that NASCAR was the sleeping giant of American sport," said Fox Sports chairman David Hill.
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It IS happening, Denny. The contracts are [allegedly] signed. From what I've heard...
...about the programming, they will back-fill with old race films/tapes. There was also talk of covering other racing series, doing car-type shows, and many of the things that Speedvision does to fill air time. I'm sure that the details are up on Lexis-Nexis already, since the ink's been drying for a few days now from what I've heard.
The battle right now is in getting an audience and distribution onto various cable systems. This is why Fox wants to aquire majority stake in Speedvision and convert it into the NASCAR Channel. Without Speedvision, Fox will have to start at square one with finding satellite space and selling the channel to local cable companies.
The one thing going for Speedvision right now is that they FINALLY turned a profit last year. It makes it just a little bit harder for a hostile takeover by Fox.....
The battle right now is in getting an audience and distribution onto various cable systems. This is why Fox wants to aquire majority stake in Speedvision and convert it into the NASCAR Channel. Without Speedvision, Fox will have to start at square one with finding satellite space and selling the channel to local cable companies.
The one thing going for Speedvision right now is that they FINALLY turned a profit last year. It makes it just a little bit harder for a hostile takeover by Fox.....