I'll tell you what's worse than Speed...the major network broadcasts of the ALMS races that not only tape delay, but also cut out 45 minutes of the race.

 

+1 on PINKS

 

95% of the time it is unwatchable garbage. They throw a bone here and there just to keep us on the hook.

What did ever happen with Jim Liberatore's The Racers Network?

 

I think it was on "treasure channel" on dishnetwork, Motorsport Ranch program was GREAT fun to watch!
I stopped watching Speed a long time ago

 

Setup looked promising until I watched a couple of episodes. It's another bad reality TV show jsut like Pinks.

 

Blame it on the "free" format. You and I would pay a few bucks to watch a good road course race, and SPEED would love to collect that money, send a crew out to the race,, and send us what we want. But for now, you and I have no relationship with SPEED other than as a view of advertisements.

So for now content is all about eyeballs -- a popularity contest. And unfortunately the stuff we see is the stuff that most people want to see.

I'm hoping / expecting that as pay-per-view, internet and other technologies fix this problem. There's money to be made!!!

 

Did anyone catch the 2008 ALMS preview shown on Thursday night?