Perhaps if this is so, some enterpreneur will realize that the audience is huge
for this stuff and spring up another channel especially aimed at US!!!
Joe
P.S. I wonder it Alan and David will be available as hosts??? :)
Bill Babcock wrote:
>
> It's hardly a scam. It's the camel's nose into the tent. I have a fair
> amount of visibility into Speedvision, and there's a very good chance that
> all the stuff you love is going to slip away. It would be stupid for them
> to abruptly shift the viewership, it will be a more gradual thing, but I
> expect (and most of the people on the inside expect) that NASCAR will
> quickly come to dominate. I haven't confirmed this, but I understand that
> NASCAR even has some ownership now.
>
> Of course F1 would probably go away anyway. Bernie Eccelstone is making it
> very expensive. The German GP negotiations went right down to the wire. I
> don't think there's any agreement for the rest of the season.
>
> I could live without the Boatyard stuff, and a lot less about airshows,
> but Speedvision is almost all I watch TV for.
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