| Fast Lane Daily | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Automotive, Review, News, |
| Created by | Emil Rensing |
| Developed by | Next New Networks & AutoStream |
| Starring | Derek Deangelis Alan Kaufman J.F. Musial Leo Parente Richard Poslszny Alex Roy Mike Spinelli |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 1105 |
| Production | |
| Editor(s) |
Iain Browne Josh Vietze J.F. Musial |
| Location(s) | New York City |
| Running time | Varies, usually 2-10 min per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Internet: YouTube FastLaneDaily.com |
| Original airing | Jan 17, 2007 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Fast Lane Daily, sometimes referred to as FLD, is an Internet-based video newscast about the automotive industry. Fast Lane Daily is part of AutoStream, Inc.. Its first episode first aired on February 17, 2007.
FLD is currently hosted by Derek Deangelis from Monday to Wednesday, Alex Roy and JF Musial on Thursday and Leo Parente on Friday. Past hosts include Tinabeth Piña, [1] Alex Gizela,[2] Carrie Milbank,[3] Michael Spinelli and Ray Wert of Jalopnik.com, Gumball 3000 veteran Alex Roy of Team Polizei,[4] Richard Owens of Supercars.net, and Bullrun rally driver Ashley Van Dyke.
As of July, 2011, FLD has over 87,900 YouTube subscribers and has shot over 1,100[5] episodes (available on its Youtube channel), one of the highest episode counts for an internet show. Historical view count for FLD on YouTube stands at 129 million in July 2011.
On December 20th, 2010, FLD aired its 1,000th episode. Most of the clips in the episode were recorded at the Nürburgring when the crew took a trip to Germany during Halloween of the same year. Unlike most episodes, which are normally 5 minutes in length, the 1,000th episode ran for over 20 minutes and was the first one in high definition.
According to Producer J.F. Musial, Fast Lane Daily averages six million views a month.
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On January 14 2010, Next New Networks announced that their entire automotive portfolio would continue to be produced by AutoStream. With the move, Fast Lane Daily had a shift in production and format. Under the new format, news segments of Fast Lane Daily are released Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of every week while Leo Parente's motorsport segment, Shakedown, is released every Friday. As of February 4 2010, Alex Roy and JF Musial's Road Testament is now released every Thursday under the Fast Lane Daily brand.
At the 2008 Webby Awards, Fast Lane Daily won the People's Voice Award in the Sports category.[6] At the 2009 Webby Awards, Fast Lane Daily gained an Honoree Award in the same category.