Speed was an American
sports-oriented cable
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and
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television network
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that was owned by the
Fox Sports Media Group
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division of
21st Century Fox
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. The network was dedicated to
motorsport
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s programming, including
auto racing
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, as well as automotive-focused programs.
Although the channel was based in the
United States
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(its
headquarters
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were located at
University Research Park
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in
Charlotte,
North Carolina
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), Speed ceased being available to most American viewers as a standalone network with its own original programming on August 17, 2013, when it was replaced by the general-interest sports network
Fox Sports 1
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.
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''Variety
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'', March 5, 2013. An "international" version of the network, now known as
Fox Sports Racing
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, concurrently launched in
Canada
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, the
Caribbean
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and the U.S. territory of
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to replace the domestic feed, airing archived Speed programming and live
simulcast
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s of motorsports events carried by Fox Sports 1 and
Fox Sports 2
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in the United States that would be otherwise unavailable to international viewers.
[
When it originally launched in 1995 as Speedvision, the network carried a lineup featuring programs profiling the automobile and motorsports industries (including individual companies, vehicles and teams), how-to series, and coverage of various domestic and international racing series (such as the ]Formula One World Championship
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, Rolex Sports Car Series
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, and the American Le Mans Series
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). After it was acquired by News Corporation
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in 2001 and relaunched as Speed Channel, the network's programming became increasingly NASCAR
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-oriented; prior to its shutdown in the U.S., Speed's lineup consisted mostly of automotive-themed reality shows
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, NASCAR-related programs (including coverage of practice and qualifying sessions, and full coverage of the Truck Series
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck-based stock cars. The series is o ...
and NASCAR-owned Rolex Sports Car Series
The Rolex Sports Car Series was the premier series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. It was a North American-based sports car series founded in 2000 under the name Grand American Road Racing Championship to replace the failed ...
), along with news programs focusing on motorsports. Most of Speed's live event programming was carried over to Fox Sports 1 (or sister network Fox Sports 2), and was simulcasted on the Speed network that remained available outside the U.S.
Due to contractual changes associated with the relaunch, Fox was expected to temporarily distribute a version of Speed (separate from the international version) to fulfill contracts with providers that had not yet signed deals to carry Fox Sports 1, airing a loop of the network's past reality programming.[ Many of the programs once found on Speed can now be found in the United States on ]CBS Sports Network
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, MAVTV
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and Velocity
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(such as '' Gearz'', '' My Classic Car'', '' Chop Cut Rebuild'', and '' Dream Car Garage'' as well as live coverage of racing events), others not such as ''Speed Center
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He previously worked for ''NASCAR on ...
''.
History
As Speedvision
The network originally launched as Speedvision on December 31, 1995. The network was one of two (the other being the Outdoor Life Network) formed out of a partnership of Cox Cable
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and Times Mirror
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History
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which had combined their cable systems operations in 1994. In July 1995, Times Mirror decided to reassess its media holdings and reduced its stake in the two planned networks to 10%. Comcast
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and Continental Cablevision
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were brought on as new partners.
Speedvision was planned by former ESPN
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executive Roger L. Werner Roger L. Werner is an American businessman and cable TV executive. He was the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of ESPN. He also founded Speedvision (now Fox Sports 1) and Outdoor Life Network. Werner served as President and C ...
, E. Roger Williams and Robert Scanlon. The network offered a mix of automotive, boating, and aviation programming.
Speedvision's initial lineup featured various automotive programs, including various documentary
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-style series focusing on prolific vehicles, manufacturers, and racing teams (such as ''Victory by Design
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'' and '' Legends of Motorsport''), series focusing on classic automobiles (such as '' Dream Car Garage'', coverage of Barrett-Jackson
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's auctions, and '' My Classic Car'', which moved to the network from TNN), an '' AutoWeek''-branded television series, along with ''MotorWeek
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'' and ''Autoline Detroit
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Extra contents that did not fit into the television broadcast are also found in the show's website.
Autoline in LA
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'' – two programs respectively syndicated from PBS
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member stations in Maryland
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and Detroit
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. Speedvision also carried coverage of various minor and professional auto racing series, including the Sports Car Club of America
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's World Challenge series (of which it also acquired title sponsor
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ship of in 1999, becoming the ''Speedvision World Challenge'').
Fox acquisition and NASCAR push
In 1998, the Fox Entertainment Group
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(then a subsidiary of News Corporation
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) purchased a 30% ownership interest in Speedvision. In May 2001, Fox negotiated a deal to acquire the stakes held by Cox and Comcast
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, thus giving them majority control of the network. Since Fox Sports
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had recently acquired broadcast rights to the first half of the NASCAR
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Busch and Winston Cup Series
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The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and fro ...
in a six-year deal, Fox planned to leverage Speedvision as an outlet for supplemental NASCAR programming.[ To coincide with that year's running of the ]Daytona 500
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, Speedvision was relaunched as Speed Channel on February 11, 2002; the network's operations were also relocated from Stamford, Connecticut
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to Charlotte, North Carolina
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(where NASCAR and the majority of its teams are based).
In the following years, additional NASCAR-related programs were slowly brought on to the schedule, ranging from news programs (such as ''Totally NASCAR
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Original version
The ...
'', rerun from Fox Sports Net
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, and ''NASCAR Race Hub
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''), pre-race programs '' Trackside'' and '' NASCAR RaceDay'', and the post-race '' NASCAR Victory Lane''. Speed Channel also added a weekly call-in show in 2003, ''WindTunnel with Dave Despain
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'', which featured interviews and discussions relating to news and events in auto racing.
Starting in 2003, Speed began to carry NASCAR's Truck Series
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, after buying out the remainder of ESPN2
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ESPN2 was initially ...
's contract for the events. The channel also offered coverage of practices and qualifying races in NASCAR's main national series, the Gatorade Duels qualifying races, and the Sprint All-Star Race. In 2005, the channel's name was shortened to simply Speed.
In 2006, the conclusion of Daytona 500 qualifying coverage was moved to Speed due to NBC's coverage of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. The coverage still had NBC graphics and commentary. It would be the only time that the NBC/TNT broadcast combo (which aired the Daytona 500 in even-numbered years and the summer race in the odd-numbered months) would air its NASCAR coverage on SPEED.
Until late 2007, Speed also aired coverage of International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
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events over the winter months – including bobsledding
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, luge
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and skeleton
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. Its winter sports coverage also included an annual charity bobsledding event organized by NASCAR driver and bobsled builder Geoff Bodine
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...
, which featured participation by various NASCAR drivers. Universal Sports
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...
acquired the rights to FIBT events beginning in the 2007–08 season.
Speed continued to maintain coverage of other professional racing series, such as the Rolex Sports Car Series
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(including the 24 Hours of Daytona
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), the American Le Mans Series
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(along with the 24 Hours of Le Mans
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), the newly renamed ''Speed World Challenge'' until 2010, and the Formula One World Championship
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. By the mid 2000s, these came along with an increasing number of reality
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Philosophical questions abo ...
series (such as the street racing
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-inspired '' Pinks'', ''Unique Whips
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'', '' Chop Cut Rebuild'', the drag racing
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game show
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''Pass Time'', '' American Trucker'', and ''Hard Parts: South Bronx'', along with reruns of the MTV
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series ''Pimp My Ride
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''). By 2008, Speed was carried in over 73 million households.[
In 2010, Fox launched Speed 2, a ]TV Everywhere
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video streaming service which featured coverage of additional racing series not broadcast by Speed, along with video on demand
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access to archived Speed programs. The service was shut down in 2014.
In 2011, Speed began carrying Australia's V8 Supercars
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series; it also aired live coverage of the Gold Coast 600
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(where major international drivers competed in teams alongside Australian drivers) and the Bathurst 1000
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featuring Darrell Waltrip
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, Mike Joy
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, Leigh Diffey
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, and Calvin Fish on-location. The move was met with praise from series organizers, who felt that the series could benefit from the additional exposure it would receive from American coverage—the series would also add a U.S. event at Austin
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's Circuit of the Americas
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for the 2013 season.
On October 12, 2012, Fox Sports announced that it would not renew its contract to air Formula One racing on Speed after the conclusion of the 2012 season. Two days later, NBC Sports
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announced that it had reached a new four-year deal to broadcast F1 races beginning in the 2013 season, with the majority of its coverage to be carried by NBC Sports Network
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. Three days later, Fox Sports reached an agreement with NASCAR to extend the network's broadcasting contract through the 2022 season (maintaining its rights to the first half of the Cup Series and the full NASCAR Truck Series), along with the addition of online streaming rights beginning in 2013.
International expansion
Speed became available in Canada
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shortly after its U.S. launch. As Speedvision, Speed was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
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(CRTC) to be added to its list of foreign cable networks approved for carriage on Canadian cable and satellite providers in 1997. As such, Speed was carried by most Canadian television service providers. Prior to August 2013, Canadian viewers saw a largely identical schedule as the U.S. channel, although some programming, particularly live Formula 1 events, were blacked out to protect TSN, which holds domestic broadcast rights to F1 events (under CRTC rules, foreign services must own Canadian broadcast rights to the content they air). However, this point became moot when NBC Sports Network obtained rights to F1 events beginning with the 2013 season, as that network is not available in Canada.
The Latin American version of Speed was launched on November 5, 2005 with a Brazilian version following in July 2006, carrying live coverage of the NASCAR Cup, Nationwide Series, and Truck Series, Rolex Sports Car Series
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, American Le Mans Series (including 24 Hours of Le Mans), and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
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. It also aired delayed coverage of the World Series by Renault
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and NASCAR Mexico. Other programming included highlights shows including British Formula Three Championship, the Argentine TC 2000
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Rules
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and Turismo Carretera
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...
, and the Colombian T.C. 2000 and delayed highlights of Australia's V8 Supercars, FIA GT
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(airing on a few months delay), AMA Supercross and Monster Jam
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, as well as non-motorsport programs such as Grand Prix on Track, Grand Prix Story, Unique Whips
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, Tuner Mania and Pinks.
Speed launched in Australia on November 1, 2010 on Foxtel
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in both standard Standard may refer to:
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and high definition
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*Blu-ray Disc, the universal optical High Definition disc format
*HD Photo, former name for the JPEG XR image file format
*HDV, format for recording high-definition video onto magnetic tap ...
. After months of negotiations and controversy, on March 25, 2011, Speed and Speed HD launched on subscription television provider Austar
Austar was an Australian telecommunications company founded in 1995 as Community Entertainment Television (CETV). Its main business activity was subscription television. It was also involved with internet access and mobile phones.
Austar's tel ...
. Among other racing events, the Australian network aired NASCAR Cup, Nationwide and Truck Series, V8 Supercars and Superbike World Championship with the network also having its own version of ''Speed News''. Unlike the U.S. version, it was owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp.
The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television prod ...
– which no longer was directly connected to 21st Century Fox due to its inclusion in the split
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Places
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* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
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of News Corporation.
On February 5, 2012, the Latin American channel was replaced in Brazil
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by a domestic version of Fox Sports
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. Beginning in 2012, the network broadcast Formula 1
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free practices and live and delayed qualifying events and races, as well as live races from the GP2 Series and GP3 Series. On November 5, 2012, Speed Latin America was relaunched as Fox Sports 3, whose programming remained focused on motorsports the following years.
On November 2, 2014, the Australian version of Speed closed and was replaced by Fox Sports 5.
Shutdown of Speed and relaunch as Fox Sports 1, 2 and Fox Sports Racing
On March 5, 2013, Fox Sports announced that Speed would be shut down and replaced by a new mainstream sports channel known as Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 1 (branded on-air as FS1) is an American pay television television channel, channel owned by the Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. FS1 airs an array of live sporting events, including Majo ...
; the network was to inherit Speed's NASCAR coverage (which would be expanded under a new television deal in 2015 to add coverage of selected Sprint Cup Series
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The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, ...
and Nationwide Series
The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a support race on the day prior to a ...
events), but joined by new or recently acquired sports rights, including college basketball
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and football
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, Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...
, UFC
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. The larg ...
, and new studio programming. Sister channel Fuel TV was also being re-launched as a companion, Fox Sports 2
Fox Sports 2 (branded on-air as FS2) is an American sports-oriented pay television channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. The channel is based at the Fox Sports division's headquarters on the Fox Studio Lot in ...
.
The last program to be broadcast by Speed in the United States was a replay of qualifying for that weekend's Sprint Cup event, the Pure Michigan 400
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, which was soon followed by a statement from Fox NASCAR play-by-play announcer Mike Joy
Michael Kinsey Joy is an American TV sports announcer and businessman who serves as the play-by-play commentator for Fox Sports' NASCAR coverage. His color analysts are Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick. Joy has been part of the live broadcast cre ...
marking the end of Speed's operations in the United States:
Although Fox marketed the transition to Fox Sports 1 as a re-launch of Speed, Fox was required to re-negotiate carriage deals with providers for Fox Sports 1 due to the change of its nature of service. There was uncertainty over whether Fox Sports 1 would have sufficient carriage at launch, as it had not yet reached deals with three of the four largest pay television providers in the United States (these being DirecTV
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, Dish Network
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The company was originally establ ...
and Time Warner Cable
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) with only a month before its launch. However, all three finally agreed to terms to carry Fox Sports 1 three days before the scheduled launch. For any remaining television providers that did not reach a deal, Fox offered a "watered-down" version of Speed (which consisted of a loop of the network's reality programming and no live events) to fulfill existing carriage contracts until they reached a deal to carry Fox Sports 1. In international markets such as Canada, a Speed-branded service was maintained running an automated loop of Speed's previous non-event programming, and simulcasts of motorsports programming carried by Fox Sports 1 or 2.
Despite the channel’s shutdown, the Speed brand would be briefly used on Fox Sports’ social media platforms for coverage of AMA Supercross, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, the ARCA Racing Series
The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three nationa ...
, IMSA
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, and other non-NASCAR motorsports. Some of these Speed-branded accounts were later converted for ''IndyCar Series on Fox
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'' use.
In Canada, as well as the Caribbean
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and Puerto Rico
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, Speed was not converted to Fox Sports 1 with the exact reasons for this not being confirmed, although in the case of Canada, it was not clear whether Fox would have had the ability to make such a change given that Speed's Canadian authorization was based on it being a motorsports-based network with that version of Speed still being available in these areas despite its U.S. shutdown. It would continue to carry various NASCAR and other motorsports events, as well as related studio programming, mostly simulcast with their U.S. broadcasts on Fox Sports 1 or Fox Sports 2, but did not otherwise originate any new programming of its own. During hours when the network was not simulcasting FS1 or FS2 coverage, it carried repeats of past events and Speed's previous reality and documentary programming without carrying commercial advertising: commercial breaks consist solely of promos for its programming, with no outside advertising aside from public service announcement
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s and promotions inserted by local providers.
In early 2014, major Canadian service providers including Rogers Cable
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and Bell Satellite TV
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began to drop the service upon the expiration of their carriage contracts. Cogeco
Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 1 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec. The company is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Breezeline (p ...
dropped the Speed Channel on July 15, 2014. Shaw later announced they would drop Speed on April 1, 2015 within their cable and satellite system (a.k.a. Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct). Reports indicate that Fox had attempted to raise the channel's carriage fees significantly, despite the major reductions in original programming for international viewers, and Rogers suggests Fox was unwilling to allow Speed to be moved to a more specialized package in light of the programming and cost changes.
On February 19, 2015, Fox announced that the international feed of Speed would be re-branded as Fox Sports Racing
Fox Sports Racing is a motorsports-oriented cable network owned by the Fox Sports Media Group division of Fox Corporation. The network launched on August 17, 2013 as a replacement of the former cable network Speed for North American markets outsid ...
, and announced that Rogers had reached a deal to add the rebranded network back to its lineup.
Revival as a FAST channel
On October 12, 2022, it was announced that Speed co-founder Robert Scanlon was collaborating with Rick Hendrick
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, Bill Goldberg
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and advertising industry sales executive Joe Abruzzese to revive the Speedvision brand as a linear channel on FAST (free ad-supported television) services. The new channel was launched on November 17, 2022 and features original and archival automotive programming on its daily schedule.
Programming
Speed on Fox
''Speed on Fox'' was the name given for any motorsports events shown on Fox
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which would normally be broadcast by Speed Channel. The events included races from the NASCAR Truck Series
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck-based stock car racing, s ...
(using NASCAR on Fox
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branding and graphics when aired), Formula One
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, and Rolex Sports Car Series
The Rolex Sports Car Series was the premier series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association. It was a North American-based sports car series founded in 2000 under the name Grand American Road Racing Championship to replace the failed ...
. The name was first used in February 2007. Formula One was broadcast on Fox for six years and the Truck Series for eight years.
Magazines
* ''Autospeed''
* ''Battle of the Supercars''
* '' The Car Show'' (Australia)
* '' Car Warriors''
* ''Dumbest Stuff on Wheels''
* ''GP Racing''
* '' Grand Prix on Track'' (Latin America)
* '' Grand Prix Story'' (Latin America)
* ''Unique Whips
''Unique Whips'' is an American reality television show that aired on the now-defunct Speed network from 2005 to 2008. It premiered on February 8, 2005, The show follows the work of Unique Autosports, based in Long Island, New York, as they customi ...
'' (Latin America)
* '' Tuner Mania'' (Latin America)
* ''Motorsport Mundial''
* ''My Ride Rules''
* ''Velocidad Sur'' (Latin America)
* ''SPEED Center
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He previously worked for ''NASCAR on ...
''
* ''Speedmakers''
Notable personalities
* Adam Alexander – (NASCAR Race Hub
''NASCAR Race Hub'' was a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced '' NASCAR Nation'' and '' This Week in NASCAR''. ''NASCAR Race Hub'' premiered on October 12, ...
host)
* Will Buxton - (Formula One
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pit-lane reporter)
*Wally Dallenbach Jr.
Wallace Paul Dallenbach (born May 23, 1963) is an American former racing driver. He competed in the NASCAR Cup Series, and is known for his prowess as a road racer. In addition to NASCAR, Dallenbach has raced in SCCA Trans-Am, IMSA GT Champion ...
- (NASCAR Race Hub
''NASCAR Race Hub'' was a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced '' NASCAR Nation'' and '' This Week in NASCAR''. ''NASCAR Race Hub'' premiered on October 12, ...
analyst)
* Dave Despain - (now at MavTV
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hosting The Dave Despain Show
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)
*Bob Dillner
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– (NASCAR reporter)
* Ray Dunlap - (Contract not renewed for 2017)
*Jeff Gordon
Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American stock car racing executive and former professional stock car racing driver who currently serves as the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. He raced full-time from 1993 to 2015, d ...
- (Fox NASCAR
''NASCAR on Fox'', also known as ''Fox NASCAR'', is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox television network in the United States since 2001. Speed, a motorsports-focused cable channel ...
color commentator)
* Jeff Hammond – (NASCAR Race Hub
''NASCAR Race Hub'' was a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced '' NASCAR Nation'' and '' This Week in NASCAR''. ''NASCAR Race Hub'' premiered on October 12, ...
analyst)
* David Hobbs - (Formula One
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commentator)
*Mike Joy
Michael Kinsey Joy is an American TV sports announcer and businessman who serves as the play-by-play commentator for Fox Sports' NASCAR coverage. His color analysts are Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick. Joy has been part of the live broadcast cre ...
– (Lead Play By Play for Fox NASCAR
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)
*Jamie Little
Jamie Little (born April 9, 1978) is an American pit reporter and play by play announcer for NASCAR coverage on Fox. Little is a former pit reporter for ESPN/ABC coverage of the Indy Racing League, although she returned to her pit reporting du ...
- (Fox NASCAR
''NASCAR on Fox'', also known as ''Fox NASCAR'', is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox television network in the United States since 2001. Speed, a motorsports-focused cable channel ...
pit reporter)
* Steve Matchett - (Formula One
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commentator)
*Larry McReynolds
Lawrence Joseph McReynolds III (born January 10, 1959) is an American NASCAR crew chief and current racing analyst on Fox Sports as well as a columnist on Foxsports.com. In the past, he has served as an advisor to Petty Enterprises, and as a m ...
– (NASCAR Race Hub
''NASCAR Race Hub'' was a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced '' NASCAR Nation'' and '' This Week in NASCAR''. ''NASCAR Race Hub'' premiered on October 12, ...
analyst)
*Phil Parsons
Phillip Gregory Parsons (born June 21, 1957) is an American former professional stock car racing driver, team owner, and analyst for FOX NASCAR since 2003. After years racing in NASCAR Winston Cup, he returned to the Busch Series where he enj ...
– (NASCAR Truck Series
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck-based stock car racing, s ...
Studio Analyst)
*Kyle Petty
Kyle Eugene Petty (born June 2, 1960) is an American former stock car racing driver and current racing commentator. He is the son of racer Richard Petty, grandson of racer Lee Petty, and father of racer Adam Petty, who was killed in a crash duri ...
– (now at NASCAR on NBC
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)
*John Roberts
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– ( NASCAR RaceDay host, NASCAR Setup pre-race show host)
* Hermie Sadler - (NASCAR Truck Series
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pit reporter)
* Danielle Trotta - (NASCAR Race Hub
''NASCAR Race Hub'' was a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced '' NASCAR Nation'' and '' This Week in NASCAR''. ''NASCAR Race Hub'' premiered on October 12, ...
host)
*Bob Varsha
Robert August Varsha (born April 21, 1951) is an American broadcast journalist who specializes in covering motorsports. He is best known for being the lap-by-lap commentator for Formula 1 and Champ Car, CART series races for ESPN, ABC Sports, and ...
- (Formula One
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host)
* Kaitlyn Vincie - (NASCAR Truck Series
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studio host)
*Krista Voda
Krista Voda Kelley (born May 31, 1974) is an American sportscaster who covers auto racing as the play-by-play announcer for the ARCA Menards Series on MAVTV. She previously worked for ''NASCAR on Fox'' and ''NASCAR on Speed'' from 2003 to 2014 as ...
(now at NASCAR on NBC
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)
*Wendy Venturini
Wendy Venturini (born January 30, 1979) is an American reporter for the Performance Racing Network (PRN). She works as broadcaster for NASCAR Cup Series races and sometimes as a pit reporter for races on PRN. She had been a pit reporter in the NA ...
- ( NASCAR RaceDay analyst)
*Kenny Wallace
Kenneth Lee Wallace (born August 23, 1963) is an American race car driver and former reporter for '' Fox NASCAR''. He retired from NASCAR in 2015 after driving in the national series since 1988. In a career spanning 25 years in NASCAR, Wallace had ...
– ( NASCAR RaceDay analyst)
*Darrell Waltrip
Darrell Lee Waltrip (born February 5, 1947) is an American motorsports Color analyst, analyst, author as well as a former national television broadcaster and stock car driver. He raced from 1972 to 2000 in the NASCAR Cup Series (known as the NAS ...
– (Fox NASCAR
''NASCAR on Fox'', also known as ''Fox NASCAR'', is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox television network in the United States since 2001. Speed, a motorsports-focused cable channel ...
color commentator)
*Michael Waltrip
Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963) is an American former professional stock car racing driver, racing commentator, racing team owner, amateur ballroom dancing competitor and published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASC ...
– (NASCAR Truck Series
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color commentator)
* Peter Windsor - (Formula One
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on-location reporter)
*Rutledge Wood
Rutledge Wood (born April 22, 1980) is an American auto racing analyst and TV show host. Wood was one of three hosts for History's ''Top Gear'' along with Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust, which premiered on November 21, 2010. Until 2013, he was on ...
- now on Top Gear
Top Gear may refer to:
* "Top gear", the highest gear available in a vehicle's manual transmission
Television
* ''Top Gear'' (1977 TV series), a British motoring magazine programme
* ''Top Gear'' (2002 TV series), a relaunched version of the ori ...
/NASCAR on NBC
''NASCAR on NBC'' (visually branded as ''NBC NASCAR'' in logos shown within on-air graphics and network promotions) is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on several NBCUniversal-owned ...
* Matt Yocum - (Fox NASCAR
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pit reporter)
See also
* Fox Sports (United States)
The Fox Sports Media Group is the American sports programming division of Fox Corporation that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried by the Fox Broadcasting Company, as well as operating television networks Fox Sports 1 (FS1) and Fox Sp ...
References
External links
SPEED: The Motors on FOX Blog
(former location of official website)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Speed (Tv Channel)
Fox Sports
Fox Sports (Australian TV network)
Companies based in Charlotte, North Carolina
Auto racing mass media
IndyCar Series on television
Formula One on television
NASCAR on television
Cable television networks in Latin America
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Fox Corporation subsidiaries
Defunct television networks in the United States
Defunct television channels in Australia
Spanish-language television stations
Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil
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Sports television networks in Australia
Sports television networks in Canada
1995 establishments in the United States
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2010 establishments in Australia
2014 disestablishments in Australia