What happened to SPEED channel? On Aug. 17, SPEED becomes FOX Sports 1 on all major pay-TV providers. Many of the auto racing events previously airing on SPEED will now air on FS1.
On Saturday, Aug. 17, at 8am ET, SPEED will become FOX Sports 1, a new national sports network featuring live college football, auto racing, UFC, soccer, news shows and more. In most cases, the FOX Sports 1 channel will be the same channel formerly held by SPEED. Many of the auto racing events previously airing on SPEED will still air on FS1, including the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, practice and qualifying, and complementary programming like NASCAR Live. Select NASCAR Sprint Cup races will come to FS1 beginning in 2015.
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Use the FOX Sports 1 channel finder at FOXSports.com to find the channel number for your TV provider and area.
FS1’s Day 1 schedule is as follows (all times ET; L denotes Live):
8:00-8:30 AM — NASCAR LIVE (L)
8:30-9:30 AM — NASCAR SPRINT CUP PRACTICE (L)
9:30-11:00 AM — NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES QUALIFYING (L)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM — NASCAR SPRINT CUP FINAL PRACTICE (L)
12:00-12:30 PM — NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK RACE PRE-RACE (L)
12:30-2:30 PM — NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE (L)
2:30-3:30 PM — TRACKSIDE LIVE (L)
3:30-4:00 PM — UFC ULTIMATE INSIDER
4:00-5:00 PM — UFC UNLEASHED
5:00-6:00 PM — UFC TONIGHT (L)
6:00-8:00 PM — FOX UFC SATURDAY PRELIMS (L)
8:00-11:00 PM — FOX UFC SATURDAY (L)
11:00 PM-12:00 AM — FOX SPORTS LIVE (L)
12:00 AM-1:00 AM — FOX SPORTS LIVE (L)
1:00-2:00 AM — FOX SPORTS LIVE (L)
[UPDATE: FS1 ratings news: “Fox also narrowly beat SPEED’s ratings at this same time last year—the network Fox Sports 1 absorbed—by 3,000 viewers. Fox Sports 1’s average ratings for the entire day was at 81,000, down from SPEED’s 100,000 last year.“]
[UPDATE 2: MavTV has acquired the rights to former SPEED Channel original series Stacey David’s Gearz, My Classic Car and Chop Cut Rebuild, with encore episodes airing this month. New episodes will debut on MavTV in March.]
This is crazy. Speed was about the only channel I watched and you took it off. We want our speed channel back. PLEASE
Bring back the original Speed Channel programing. I don’t need another football, baseball, all sports channel. FOX you screwed this one up royally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring back Speed you Richard Nogins. Dont’ want to wish you any bad luck, but I hope you get runover by a firetruck. Talk about being disconnected.
I want my motor sports channel back
You really messed up with all this field and track stuff. Bring back the motor sports
Wonder if it’ll carry Barrett/Jackson. The best of the auto auctions
This is bull shit. The only motor sports Chanel we had is gone.i’ll never watch fox crap again.
Stupid really stupid
Are you people IDIOTS? What are you thinking? We pay good money to see some of these channels, and you just change them with no warning? Stupid, really stupid.
Like we needed more freakin football and ufc. The only decent channel was speed. Thanks for helping to confirm my decision to quit paying for cable!You execs are morons !
Like we needed more freakin football and ufc. the only decent channel was speed. Thanks for helping to confirm my decision to quit paying for cable!
Just another generic sports channel! Speed was one of the only channels I looked forward to watching. Too bad you network executives are truly brain dead!
So this is what happens when the UNINFORMED Know-it-All FOX executives made decisions. Speed Week with the huge NASCAR following is replaced with Boxing; My Classic Car, Two men in a Garage, Hot Rod Magazine, etc. is replaced with ANOTHER Football, Baseball, and golf sports program; undoubtedly with endless commentaries on A-Rod’s drug problems.
I can’t imagine how much the executive, that replaced the SPEED channel, makes a year, but it can’t compare to the number of people that will not watch FOX sports; if, for no other reason than NO ONE watching Speed Week was looking for ANOTHER generic sports show about football, baseball, boxing, curling, or badminton?
Who would watch a sports show with Ex coaches and Pro ball players, when given the choice of crack commentary on football by Regis Philbin. REALLY!! . Did this great thinker ask anyone why the NASCAR viewers would rather watch FOX SPORTS when there is already HUNDREDS of great sport coverage shows on every TV and Radio New show 24/7?
You could paint your commentary on the side of a cow in Wichita and it would be seen by more people than will watch FOX SPOTS on Sat or Sunday mornings.
What is next a two hour infomercial on Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun agenda?
Greedy Idiots..I cant wait until the internet shuts down the money grubbing cable Co. Sweet revenge!! Go! Google TV
Really sucks that Speed went away, some upper management nerds thinks we need more ball games and boxing. Real smart!
So we lose channels with no notice, they can’t get the programs to start on time so most shows start five minutes late and you lose the last minutes of the show, they don’t allow you to start recording five minutes late.
You think with all this computers they would be able to know when the a shows starts , I not seeing dish to far into my future and would not recomend it to friends.
I called and talked to the so called service reps and they don’t know crap about Dish and most don’t use Dish
I cant believe that SPEED is gone. you just made my satellite bill go down. cause I am dropping this crap.Who gives a damn about boxing and UFC fighting. got rid of all the shows I watched on Sunday and gonna bombard me with a bunch of crap I don’t care about. Thanks FOX
I wanr my Speed channel back. We already have enough “sports” (ball games) channel. Bring back SPEED CHANNEL.
I cannot believe you got rid of MY SPEED channel . Every Saturday I would look forward to watching my racing especially the Qualifying, everything about racing all kinds of racing. This Fox Sports 1 channel really “SUCKS”for I don’t have anything of what I watched before. EXTREMELY UPSET!!!! That’s All I care about is MY NASCAR. You have really hurt ALL the NASCAR FANS & VIEWERS……
Might as well get rid of my cable and tv. We want SPEED!
So this is what happens when the UNINFORMED Know-it-All FOX executives made decisions. Speed Week with the huge NASCAR following is replaced with Boxing; My Classic Car, Two men in a Garage, Hot Rod Magazine, etc. is replaced with ANOTHER Football, Baseball, and golf sports program; undoubtedly with endless commentaries on A-Rod’s drug problems.
I can’t imagine how much the executive, that replaced the SPEED channel, makes a year, but it can’t compare to the number of people that will not watch FOX sports; if, for no other reason than NO ONE watching Speed Week was looking for ANOTHER generic sports show about football, baseball, boxing, curling, or badminton?
Who would watch a sports show with Ex coaches and Pro ball players, when given the choice of crack commentary on football by Regis Philbin. REALLY!! . Did this great thinker ask anyone why the NASCAR viewers would rather watch FOX SPORTS when there is already HUNDREDS of great sport coverage shows on every TV and Radio New show 24/7?
You could paint your commentary on the side of a cow in Wichita and it would be seen by more people than will watch FOX SPOTS on Sat or Sunday mornings.
What is next a two hour infomercial on Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun agenda?
Before you start getting all “Full” of yourselves and looking down on those that have complained; I am a college graduate with a masters and own my own company. I just like cars
Regards R J Patton
Amen, we want speed back.