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Old 08-17-2013, 12:56 PM
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Default Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge TV Coverage

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Anyone who set your DVR to record the race which was scheduled to air this afternoon on Speed beware... with the switch from Speed to Fox Sports 1 or "FS1", the Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge TV coverage has been demoted to "FS2", and I can't get FS1 or FS2 in HD right now with Time Warner. I'm likely going to be in the market for a new cable TV provider in the very near future.

I feel like George Costanza... "Why must there always be a problem?!?"
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Rolex race is at 8 pm tonight on FS2

Directv for FS1 is 219 and FS2 is 618
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I don't get Fox Sports 2. I knew this would happen.
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I have comcast and I don't get FS2 either. I guess I will have to give up on Road Racing in the US. I follow Grand Am and Continental. I hope they still play V8 Supercars and DTM on FS1.

Damn glad F1 moved to NBC. At least I still get that station.
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At least you can still watch them (delayed) on the web. $10/month for me to get FS2 with Brighthouse.
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I think I'm out of luck with Dish, too, w/o spending big buck for a larger package .
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Fox2 used to be "FuelTV", see if that's still listed on your guide. I had to search for it but it was there.
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FuelTV is on my cable list, but it's not included in my already over-priced package. This will kill any chance Grand Am/Rolex had of surviving if they don't get on a channel people can actually see.
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I'd like to think my polite letter to a couple of the Nascar/Grand Am marketing people helped, but the Kansas Conti race is on FS1 at 3:00 EDT. I pointed out that when Grand-am did the deal with Fox, and Continental did the deal with Grand-Am, they were expecting an available market base of the cable and satellite systems and packages that carried Speed, not Fuel TV. That number is a lot lower, and someone at Continental will get upset.

Speaking of - anyone think Fox is pulling a fast one with the whole FS1 - FS2 deal? Trying to get more cable systems to carry FS2 on a lower tier of channels? Same thing with FX and the new FXX - let's move popular shows to FXX, so more viewers demand the channel, so Fox gets more money. This is why a la carte cable channels won't work, the networks will just move popular shows to under-subscribed channels. Like live F1 races on CNBC or MSNBC.



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