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Rich Christensen
Rich Christensen is an American television producer. He created, is lead executive producer and host of the racing shows Pinks and Pinks All Out, the number one and two shows behind Nascar on Speed Channel. It took him 15 years with television executives saying "no" to all his ideas (many of which ended up airing months and years later with other producers attached on the very networks he pitched!) in Los Angeles, trying to break into the television business. He finally broke through with his innovative negotiating drag racing idea, Pinks, with the help of then president of Speed Network, Jim Liberatore.

Within two years Christensen created an off-shoot of Pinks with Pinks All Out, the "anti-sandbagging" competition. It was during one of those shoots that near tragedy struck. Being the go-getting producer that he is and wanting to keep the action of his show as entertaining as possible for his fans (about 20,000, each paying $10-$20 per ticket, NONE of which ever goes to the producer, Rich Christensen), he jumped on a superbike while shooting. He intended on taking a short ride down the track to see about the safety a driver near the finish. Although Christensen had been riding bikes since age 5, he was used to riding "pull-backs" exclusively. The bike he hopped on was a considerably faster "crotch-rocket".

Rich is the first one to tout the importance of safety, which is one of the main premises of the shows he's created - don't race on the street, take it to the track. But in his haste, he did not put on a helmet. He crashed the bike. As he was going down, he still had presence of mind to think to himself "head, head!" and he was miraculously able to keep his unprotected head off the pavement. Christensen credits his 20+ years of weight lifting, an average of 7 days per week, with getting him through that accident altough quite scraped, busted up and bruised. Any other host after an incident such as that would be done for the night - but not Rich Christensen. After getting patched up by the EMT's and while still in shock, he went on to tape two more episodes bringing to mind that old show business adage, 'the show must go on'! When it came time to edit that embarrassing wipe out, again, any other host would insist on that footage not being aired, not wanting to look bad. But that is just one of the many unique qualities of this truly gifted artist. There were some who wanted to keep it out, but Christensen insisted it be kept in and why not - it would only show up on MySpace or YouTube (as it has) and people would see it anyway. He wants to always be 100% honest with his audience. Rich Christensen is one producer who really wants to keep the reality in Pinks real.

Recently he created something that has never been done in the history of television. He created a one hour programming block entitled LAUNCH Hour. What makes this a truly unique endeavor is the fact that he will be introducing several short 5 episode blocks of new shows (all ideas from him and him alone) and having them be judged and evaluated by the viewers themselves. Their suggestions are taken into consideration as the network heads, along with Christensen, make a choice whether the shows stay or go. In the whole history of television there has never been an opportunity for fans to be in a situation in which it is the goal to tailor so many shows based on their opinions.

Christensen looks forward to creating and continuing his art, along with spending time and working with his editor and newly hired (by Christensen) internet reporter wife, Gayle, and their dog.