No WSBK coverage on Speed Channel

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You guys are awesome, hope you can make it all come together. I'm still just pissed about the no coverage!!! I don't know, maybe it's easier for the camera to follow cars going in circles rather than bikes changing direction. JA's!!!
 
If you can't blame the execs who do you blame? Of course you blame the execs.
Not every show can be a block buster. If you don't support it, it will die.
I watched NASCAR as a child. As an adult, I stepped up to the real talent, the motorcycle racers. I'm never going back to NASCAR.

DAMN SHAME
 
rayzer said:
Only in NObama land, home of the flippen beeding liberals that hate motorcycles (Just my opinion) They should just name it the redneck NASCAR channel. To each his own, if you like NASCAR, great watch it but, why no road racing? They are still showing Motocross, I seriously doubt that there are that many more off road enthusiast than road. Many are both, I myself have been following supper cross this season. So far everything says NO coverage except possibly Daytona, thats it for us here in the States. Just not right!!!
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I am a liberal, I love motorcycles, and in my opinion it is the truck loving NASCAR loving teabaggers that are responsible for the low ratings. But that's just my opinion. :D
 
I remember when speed channel first started, Tuesday was "two wheel tuesday" and they had all mc related shows on that day, lots of great coverage of bikes on the network. They had a bike show hosted by Larry Meyers and Dave Despain with reviews, etc. The decline started when it became "speed" aka (nascar network).

Laurentinium said:
If you can't blame the execs who do you blame? Of course you blame the execs.
Not every show can be a block buster. If you don't support it, it will die.
I watched NASCAR as a child. As an adult, I stepped up to the real talent, the motorcycle racers. I'm never going back to NASCAR.

DAMN SHAME
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I blame the viewers mostly. They have voted with their eyeballs and apparently they would rather watch reruns of old Nascar races and reality shows that are sort of about racing (Pass Time and Are You Faster than a Redneck, etc.) than WSBK or MotoGP. If you weren't already aware that society as a whole is in a steady state of decline, uh, well.. :)
 
On a lighter note... Danica Patrick made the Daytona 500 pole position. Just saying...it was the top story on ESPN this morning...






p.s.
+1 on the "Two Wheel Tuesdays"...ah those were the days!
 
I gota pole position for her:D Congrats to Danica but I don't care about Nascar:cool:
 
zvez said:
I remember when speed channel first started, Tuesday was "two wheel tuesday" and they had all mc related shows on that day, lots of great coverage of bikes on the network. They had a bike show hosted by Larry Meyers and Dave Despain with reviews, etc. The decline started when it became "speed" aka (nascar network).
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Ditto - still, you gotta give 'em credit for having a go to begin with. Thing is, the shows they put on are just prodiucts to the investors who are ponying up the dosh, and as soon as they see which ones have a higher ROI, that's where the bucks will start flowing. The logical place for sports without big followings (for whatever reason (or political persuasion)) is niche networks or online, ala Speed2. I expect that's where SBK will end up; the powers that be will just have to finish their stare-down contests to see how much coin can be extracted before signing off.

In the meantime, we just have to figure out our workarounds, and the programmers have to hope they haven't made themselves redundant by the time they get their ducks lined up.

And BTW; Bowdy - get us hooked up so we can watch you in ASBK... ;)
 
Can we get someone to commit for each race, tape it, and post to youtube? :D I'll commit to round 12!
 
sifubs said:
speed sucks and is continuing to get worse since Murdock took over. Thats why i now watch motogp online.

Screw SPEED, they should call it the NASCAR channel.
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im with you moto gp online but can you get wsbk online too?
 
I hate comcast. Any1 have the dish or direct tv with I believe eurosport2 hd. I am thinking of getting either the dish or direct tv. Any info would be appreciated, thnx.
 
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Unbelievable, you think that they could at least play our races at 3 or 4 in the morning so we could dvr them. Speed SUCKS!
 
i have directv i cant find any eurosport channel. please advise if you know the channel
 
so as i see it and i have been looking (correct me if i am wrong) but not only are we not getting world superbike but we arent getting moto gp, moto 2, nor ama superbike. How am i to see Josh Hayes 4 peat? yet i have 1000 cartoon channels.
 
mark419ny said:
so as i see it and i have been looking (correct me if i am wrong) but not only are we not getting world superbike but we arent getting moto gp, moto 2, nor ama superbike. How am i to see Josh Hayes 4 peat? yet i have 1000 cartoon channels.
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With 3 US MotoGp rounds I would hope they figure out the TV rights before the season starts, but we're a no go on everything else :(
 

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