Been looking at some older videos on Youtube from SPEEDVISION programing back in the day. It's cool that some people have uploaded stuff from Speedvision days including classic car races and the host of great old motoring type tv programs that often lived on Speedvision and a bit made it to SPEED later on (though SPEED was never a match for SPEEDVISION).
It all made me realise that from in Canada about early in 1997 to 2001 Speedvision was a channel I probably had on the tube 70-75% of the time. I really miss that network.
Today it's mostly dumbed down (grade 5 level) and shitty t.v. shows and especially all too many faux-reality t.v. shows on all channels, I get sick of it all. Velocity (called Discovery Velocity up here in Candanavia) could not carry Speedvision's proverbial jock strap. It has a few entertaining shows but more of that BULLSHIT, FAKE REALITY SHIT!
With Speedvision we had all sorts of motor sports. F1, (of course over abundance of NASCAR
) Speedvision Touring Cars, British Touring Car, German Touring Car, Australian Sports Cars, American LeMans, WRC, Moto GP, NHRA and other racing. We have nothing like that today. Racing is mixed all over the dial or not even covered anymore. I can't recall the last time I saw an NHRA event on t.v.
American Muscle Car, My Classic Car, Motortrend Magazine, Dream Car Garage, Legends of Motorsport, and even in the SPEED days, Two Guys Garage and David Stacey's Gearz. I'm sure I am forgetting others. All had life on Speedvision.
The Lost Drive In on Saturday nights and all the motorsports follow up /news shows. The great aviation shows like Great Plane and Planes of Fame etc. well Speedvision RULED for me.
I really wish we had a channel that modeled itself like Speedvision did. But up hear in Canuckistan we don't. Maybe in the Excited States you may have some sort of channel(s) like that but I doubt it.
Anyways, YOUTUBE has been fun to trip down SPEEDVISION memory lane for me of late.