Bill Babcock wrote:
>
> Hear, hear.
>
> I've signed. I love Speedvision. I have a TV in my shop with a sign under
> it that says "If you don't want to watch Speedvision, you're in the wrong
> place". The sale to Fox made sense, but they are bound to make substantial
> changes. It's also personally unfortunate--I know the VP and CEO, and they
> were very generous in getting me backstage passes to events I attended. I
> doubt Fox will be as forthcoming.
>
> The Legends of Motorsport footage is a major assets of Speedvision. Roger
> Warner told me that they bought rights to a huge archive of historical
> stuff. A great library. I bet the production costs for those programs sets
> an all-time low record--a few minutes of Roger D explaining the segment,
> and that's it. Nickelodeon levels. Fox doesn't care as much about
> production costs, and so they'd be likely to fill the slots with higher
> viewer ship segments.
My computer is in my shop and I have a "TV Card" installed, so that I can watch
Speedvision while I work on the cars or monitor the list mail.
I think there is room for some program changes on SpeedVision and still keep
with the main intent and audience. The things I would get rid of are:
Airplane war stories (We can see those on The History Channel and The Learning
Channel)
A lot of programing about boats. (How to restore boats and boating safety
programs have nothing to do with racing)
Infomercials (I am tired of hearing how to make millions buying and selling
cars and particularly how to remove unwanted hair!)
Just my 2 cents worth!
Joe (C)
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