Rogers has decided to removed Speed from it's line-up. If your a Rogers subscriber well let your voice be heard and bitch about it. No more Rolex and Grand Am Racing on Canadian TV expect what the big networks bring us! Don't know if Bell also is getting rid of it as well.

I found this by accident while looking for Rolex Daytona TV schedule.
Rogers Statement
Speed Channel
As of March 1, 2014, Speed Channel will no longer be available on Rogers. We apologize for the inconvenience and recognize that fans will be disappointed with the decision, but we hope you will continue to value the dozens of channels that are included in your package.

If you have any questions please call 1 866 516-3826.

 

To be fair, over the last month, all of the shows I watch on Speed have disappeared. Shows like Truck Universe, Gearz, Chop Cut Rebuild. Now it's the NASCAR channel so I'm not sure I care. As long as Rogers discounts my cable service after Speed removal.

 

yeah this sucks i will be dropping them first spike now speed..... nothing else for me there

 

Not much other than auto racing (not Nascar, well sometimes) will I miss.
But I know where your coming from, I personally will miss "R U Faster That A Redneck" good for a few chuckles anyway's. Now that I'm living in Orangeville I must truly be a redneck now, not saying I always wasn't!

 

I was going to get TV till I found out the only channels I watch are gone. Or extras now. Total bs, speed channel was the best.

 

I jettisoned Speed years ago, while they did have some non-Nascar stuff, it wasn't much, and it wasn't worth it.
About a year ago, I cancelled the satellite outright. I watch what I want off-air, or from the web.

 

Look like I'll be getting a proxy server in the near future just because of **** like this. 500 channels with nothing on that interests me! I guess there' s not enough gear heads in Canada to make Speed economically viable.

From the film Network:

"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

“I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and out food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone. “Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, “I’m a Human Being, God damn it! My life has Value!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you go get up right now and go to the window. Open it, stick your head out, and yell, “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve got to get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this any more!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

 

Got em' on Shaw looking forward to coverage of the 24 Hours of Daytona as I can't be there this year. Oh and for those interested a fair amount of the race will be streamed live at: IMSA | TUDOR United SportsCar Championship

 

I have Bell satellite dish and I still had Speed as of last night.

The whole Speed TV issue was discussed 6 months ago and it sucks as to what happened to the channel after Fox bought it. In the US it is gone entirely and a lot of the race coverage you used to see on the network has been spread out over about 5 channels now and 4 we don't get.

If you want to do something positive about this, send an email to Keith Pelley at Rogers complaining about the lack of racing coverage on TV. Rogers owns 4 billion stations in the cable empire they control and they will replace darts with the World Challenge series or Aussie V8's, if they think that there will be enough viewers.

Failing that, you have to go to torrent sites to watch these races now.

Just pisses me off as on major Canadian sports networks we get darts and poker repeats rather than first run international racing series.......

Motorsports is going back underground again guys, just like it was in my youth.

Eric