Skate America Broadcasts TV and Internet

[rfisher]

Ice Network/NBC schedule Please add additional broadcasts as available.
All times EST
Friday, Oct. 21
10:05 p.m.: Men's short program
11:45 p.m.: Short dance
Saturday, Oct. 22
2:35 p.m.: Men's free skate (first group ONLY)*
4:30 p.m.: Free dance (first group ONLY)*
10:00 p.m.: Pairs short program
11:25 p.m.: Ladies short program
Sunday, Oct. 23
4:05 p.m.: Pairs free skate
5:45 p.m.: Ladies free skate
*The second group of both the men's free skate and the free dance on Saturday, Oct. 22, will not be shown live on icenetwork.com but rather broadcast live on NBC. Please check your local NBC affiliate for broadcast information.

[oleada]

Thanks rfisher. Does anyone have the listings for the Russian WebTV or TVTeka?

[HisWeirness]

Right now I only see the listings for Eurosport coverage on the NTV Plus site:
http://www.ntvplus.ru/tv/search.xl?search=Skate

This week is very busy for me (going to Europe Friday) so any help with the TV schedules is very appreciated.

[Jenna]

look at those times!

Brings back memories of staying up until 2:30AM to watch Ashley Wagner's SP in Spokane.

[FarFarAway]

Right now I only see the listings for Eurosport coverage on the NTV Plus site:
http://www.ntvplus.ru/tv/search.xl?search=Skate

Well, half of the listings you cited include 2005 Skate America
Grand Prix events will be broadcast in Russia by Eurosport and Eurosport 2 this year, and not always live.

NTV plus is not broadcasting the event this time.

[FarFarAway]

Brings back memories of staying up until 2:30AM to watch Ashley Wagner's SP in Spokane.

That's not the worst outcome I have to stay awake all night through

[Frau Muller]

So no Skate America or other G-P eents on Universal Sports this year other than possible reshowings of the NBCs? That stinks. I was counting on UnivSports to see short programs and be able to DVR.

[Hedwig]

NTV plus is not broadcasting the event this time.

That is bad news.
Just Skate America or all of the GP circuit? They are always very reliable in showing most everything live.
Eurosport is not nearly as good this year...

[FarFarAway]

That is bad news.
Just Skate America or all of the GP circuit? They are always very reliable in showing most everything live.

They are not showing all of the GP circuit
I guess they lost interest in showing GP events, there were some talks about this last season.

[Hedwig]

I was counting on them.

[acraven]

So no Skate America or other G-P eents on Universal Sports this year other than possible reshowings of the NBCs? That stinks. I was counting on UnivSports to see short programs and be able to DVR.

Universal Sports will have additional GP coverage, beyond what is shown on NBC. The Universal Sports website currently lists the following Skate America broadcasts:

Sun 10/23 1:30 PM 4:30 PM Pairs SP and Ladies SP
Sun 10/23 4:30 PM 7:30 PM Pairs FS and Ladies FS
Tue 10/25 6:00 PM 9:00 PM FD and Men's FS (or NBC Repeat)
Tue 10/25 11:00 P 2:00 AM Pairs FS and Ladies FS (Repeat)
Wed 10/26 3:00 PM 6:00 PM FD and Men's FS (Repeat)
Thu 10/27 8:00 PM 11:00 P FD and Men's FS (Repeat)
Fri 10/28 1:00 AM 4:00 AM Pairs FS and Ladies FS (Repeat)

This link also brings up Skate Canada broadcasts:

http://www.universalsports.com/tv-li...=FS/index.html

[dinakt]

It seems that Universal Sports will not be streaming Skate America- the coverage says "TV only"

[caseyedwards]

They had to just change that. I was ready to buy coverage the day of instead of early and even though I am going to buy coverage anyway part of the reason was originally Skate America. They had a schedule and everything.

[Simone411]

I'm at least looking forward to the NBC coverage. I also renewed my subscription to the IceNetwork coverage. The only regret is that I can't tape anything this season until I'm back home. Thanks for all the information everyone.

[Braulio]

No NTV Plus coverage! wow, that´s a shame indeed, as Eurosport wont be showing everything live or complete as it seems

[alilou]

What about RAI TV? Anyone know anything?

[FarFarAway]

What about RAI TV? Anyone know anything?

I didn't find anything on their website in the Program Guide for Skate America
My worst guess is that since the rights were sold to Eurosport this season and they are European TV channel, RAI won't show anything too.

[alilou]

I didn't find anything on their website in the Program Guide for Skate America
My worst guess is that since the rights were sold to Eurosport this season and they are European TV channel, RAI won't show anything too.

[Jammers]

Will the Ladies and Pairs air live on NBC on Sunday?

[Frau Muller]

Will the Ladies and Pairs air live on NBC on Sunday?

Not NBC. It will be on UnivSports, live at the first airing @ 4:30pm on Sunday, Oct 23.

That promises to be a doozy of an afternoon...SIX straight hours of Pairs & Ladies coverage on UnivSports, beginning with taped coverage of the earlier Prs/Ladies SPs from 1:30-4:30pm, then the LIVE coverage of Prs/Ladies finals from 4:30-7:30pm EST. Wheeee!!!!

What's not-so-nice is the splitting of the Skate Canada (& certain other GP events) coverage over different weekends, so that, in the US, we will actually DVR some of Cup of China before we can DVR the remainder of coverage of the Skate Canada Ladies finals. grrr...time to juggle the DVD disks to keep coverage of specific competitions together...