What happened to SPEED channel?

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.]

 

 

21 Comments

  1. My uncle is a die hard gear head on his death bed. All he has is his race cars, and his Speed channel. His ex-wife tortured him for years and took everything else. Now FOX is taking one of the only things that would put a smile on this ol’ guys face. WTF ? How many more gear heads are there sitting in a hospital bed are there wondering the same thing? Speed channel was one of the only thing that guys could turn to and feel validated. FOX might as well send their executives door to door, ask for the man of the house and cut their d**k’s off, and shove a football up thier a**. What a joke.

  2. Just called Time Warner and I’m about ready to cancel . I could give a Dam about watching a bunch of overpaid ,drug using, over priviledged sports personality’s. I want my Speed channel Back. I’ll be looking at Dishthis week.

  3. Really! come on! most people that watched speed were gear heads that would watch racing or cars stuff over football anytime. I could care less about fox sports one. I could care less about the football and other sports news. Bring speed BACK!!!

  4. This cant be!!! What will the GEARHEADS do . SPEED was the one channel that lead the way , now Fox wants to become the best at being a follower I hop fox wakes up and realizes that jumping on the bandwagon is not the way to inprove ratings. GIVE US BACK OUR SPEED

  5. I don’t give a rats ass about football.put the speed channel back on.i am a gear head and speed was one of my favorite channels.you think that everyone likes football? not.thats what they have sports center for.people that not into cars don’t have to watch speed.thats one channel that will get deleted from my list.

  6. REALLY – REALLY – Really a stupid move to cancel the Speed Channel. Do everyone a favor and get it back on before another network picks up that programming. Nobody cares about your sport news programming or UFC, what a joke!

  7. I am extremely disappointed that I will miss the Rolex races tomorrow! SPEED channel was the only reason I paid for that particular cable package. When will FXS1 start airing ROLEX and Formula 1 racing?

  8. What group of STUPID executives made the decision to take all the racing off and put on talk shows about football who cares about football. Why do you think we watched the SPEED channel for racing shows dumb ass.

  9. What in the heck are you people thinking at fox??? I really like the fox coverage of the sprint cup. But geeeesh!!!! you kill the best automotive channel on the planet to put crap on that you can watch at 10 other sites!!! somebody in marketing needs to be dismissed for a complete f’up. Really Fox!!!!

  10. I am not a sports nut as I don’t watch the sports talk shows I am a down south CAR nut bring back my car shows PLEASE .
    Ball games don’t get my Di–k hard as a good looking car does or Race … Thank you for your time that it took for you to read my comment Johnnie

  11. THERE ARE ENOUGH CHANNELS THAT BROADCAST BORING ASS FOOTBALL AND STUPID UFC, PUT SPEED BACK ON, NOW THERE’S NO GEARZ, MONSTER JAM, TRUCK U, TWO GUYS GARAGE, OR PASS TIME TO HECK WITH YOU FOX

  12. I want to say a bunch of foul childish things about your shitty new channel but I won’t. I will say that I won’t watch one second of FS1. So long SPEED and all my favorite shows. Thank goodness for velocity! Mecum Auctions start Wednesday y’all!

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