2023 Skate Canada Where Are You Watching?

[dorispulaski]

The only US TV coverage is:

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Nov. 4

Skate Canada International: Recap

12 p.m.

NBC

Peacock has additional coverage, but the tiles are not up yet.

Links to video will appear once the event begins.

Fans from many countries can watch on the ISU channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/c/SkatingISU


The tiles for the ISU Livestreams will be here when they are available, for those lucky enough to be able to use them.


Another thing you can do with these tiles is to get a notification sent to your cellphone.

Canadian Coverage:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/streaming-schedule?sport=Figure+Skating

Links appear on the above page when available.

All Times Eastern Time

Fri Oct 27	5:00 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Women's Short Program
Fri Oct 27	6:50 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Ice Dance Rhythm Dance
Fri Oct 27	9:45 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Pairs Short Program
Fri Oct 27	11:10 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Men's Short Program
Sat Oct 28	5:00 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Women's Free Program
Sat Oct 28	6:00 p.m.	That Figure Skating Show: Skate Canada
Sat Oct 28	6:25 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Ice Dance Free Program
Sat Oct 28	9:00 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Pairs Free Program
Sat Oct 28	10:37 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Men's Short Program
Sun Oct 29	5:00 p.m.	ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate Canada International - Gala

 

[throw_triple_flip]

Last year there were streams of the Canadian coverage on the Skate Canada Dailymotion channel and these were viewable in other countries. Possible it might be on there this year?

Link

 

[dorispulaski]

Yes, and I hope it works this year.

 

[MFarone]

I am watching on Peacock and the tiles are now up. I saved everything to "my stuff".

 

[dorispulaski]

. The Exhibition is being shown as well as the competitions for Skate Canada.

 

[Bookseller]

Peacock is worth the money in skating season. You can get a feed with no commentary or with commentary if you prefer. I prefer without. They have replays for a few days after, but then they disappear. And they showed the gala for SKAM as well. It was shown live and there is a replay.

 

[NanaPat]

The CBC has their own commentators for the streams of this event.

In English it will be host Ted Barton along with Kevin Reynolds, Kaetlyn Osmond, Kaitlyn Weaver, Kirsten M-T (presumably one of the 4, depending on the discipline).

French CBC stream will have Alicia Pineault, Charlie Bilodeau, Élisabeth Paradis, and Laurence Darveau.

 

[MFarone]

Exactly. Well worth the money now that we have figured out how to get commentary or no commentary and we can get 48 hour replays . Next event, I will probably watch the gala on replay. The only sad thing is that the days of recording shows with a cassette recorder or DVR in the world of streaming seem to be gone. I think if you are willing to pay X amount of dollars to buy certain channels, you can record some of the events but that is out of my capability....at least a deal was cut to where the music business would allow 48 hour replays.

Just to be clear, I did not see an option for commentary or no commentary for SC. There was that option for SA but for SC there is only 1 tile for each event and I am GUESSING that it will not have commentary. Peacock is showing the Gala Exhibition.

 

[fzztsimmons]

UK continues to be geoblocked. I had hopes that it would only be Skate America as apparently happened last year, but nope, no visible upcoming streams when accessed in the UK but they are there when I use a VPN to the netherlands. I’m furious and have been angrily bombarding the ISU with comments across their socials.

 

[elbkup]

But no practice cams on Peacock tho Ted Barton’s Instagram said he will be commenting on skatecanada.ca

Hoping Peacock covers the Medal Ceremonies but I doubt it;
It did not at SA

 

[dorispulaski]

The Skate Canada practice cams may not be geoblocked. They were not last year.

Give the two links in the OP of the Practice Reports thread a try!

 

[dorispulaski]

Peacock is an Xfinity/ NBC app. Hence:

For Skate Canada, the one commentary event that will show up on Peacock is the NBC recap on Nov. 4.

Skate America had both options because E! is an NBC cable channel, and the E! coverage was on Peacock, as well as the non-commentary ISU feed.

 

[MFarone]

The SC practice cams yesterday were geoblocked. I traveled to Toronto with my VPN and was able to see the stream. There was definitely commentary on the practice cam stream. Some of the commentary was useful but when it turned into "how did you deal with this or that when you were competing" I got annoyed. I only watched for about an hour because the stream kept freezing and buffering and I really hope the competition stream is going to be a lot better than the practice cam.

 

[Yunakimfan17]

UK continues to be geoblocked. I had hopes that it would only be Skate America as apparently happened last year, but nope, no visible upcoming streams when accessed in the UK but they are there when I use a VPN to the netherlands. I’m furious and have been angrily bombarding the ISU with comments across their socials.

This remains the case in the UK as of 16.28. I'm furious too. Of course I can use my VPN. But what little regard is there now by the powers that be to promote this beautiful sport to a wider audience.

 

[Vicky458]

Peacock is worth the money in skating season. You can get a feed with no commentary or with commentary if you prefer. I prefer without. They have replays for a few days after, but then they disappear. And they showed the gala for SKAM as well. It was shown live and there is a replay.

I am watching on Peacock and the tiles are now up. I saved everything to "my stuff".

Does anyone know who is commentating for Peacock

 

[Pink Peril]

This remains the case in the UK as of 16.28. I'm furious too. Of course I can use my VPN. But what little regard is there now by the powers that be to promote this beautiful sport to a wider audience.

You’re going through what we’ve dealt with in New Zealand now. After our broadcaster dropped it, it took us two years before ISU finally stopped Geo blocking it. This was despite numerous requests directly from Sky NZ. I and many others sent endless complaints to their online customer service place, never a single reply. Sent typed letters to them by snail mail, never an acknowledgment. Last year they also completely stopped comments on their highlights reels because of the hundreds from people who who were geoblocked.
I feel sorry for you in the UK going through what New Zealand has dealt with the last two years. Finally, we can watch on YouTube. Proton VPN for Netherlands is the one for watching for you guys. We couldn’t even do that because it now only auto connects, no choice of country, so for us, it goes to the USA. I can’t afford to pay for that, where you can choose the country just for the GP series yearly. Luckily, we are no longer Geo blocked. It’s a miracle.

 

[kasha6]

Peacock is worth the money in skating season. You can get a feed with no commentary or with commentary if you prefer. I prefer without. They have replays for a few days after, but then they disappear. And they showed the gala for SKAM as well. It was shown live and there is a replay.

how do you get no commentary?

 

[amanda b]

UK continues to be geoblocked. I had hopes that it would only be Skate America as apparently happened last year, but nope, no visible upcoming streams when accessed in the UK but they are there when I use a VPN to the netherlands. I’m furious and have been angrily bombarding the ISU with comments across their socials.

I have an Eurosport subscription solely for figure skating - and now realised its not on Eurosport this year, despite the ISU saying it is. But I can get it on youtube with my VPN set to France.

 

[MFarone]

Does anyone know who is commentating for Peacock

Mark Hanretty did the commentary for Peacock (maybe the ISU?).

@kasha6 For Skate America Peacock had no commentary for the stream which was meant for online viewing and commentary for the parts that were also used for broadcast tv. I don't expect those of us watching entirely on Peacock will have that option again.