I logged into UK Eurosport player and checked the schedule, and I see nothing for SA. SA is usually not on the linear channels, but on a player separate non-commentary feed. I don't even see one of those. Maybe a bit too early still...
What would be the rest? The gala?
They honestly have no excuse not to show the Ice Dance at least, we have two teams competing!
^ Caroliza_fan - many thanks for all your hard work!
So far SA doesn't look too bad every time before a season starts I get into panic that it might be the year when BESP stops covering figure skating altogether so it is always a relief to actually see it on sky schedule -yay!!!
Do you think it will be very daft to hope that some of Worlds 2018 coverage on Saturday might turn to be the SPs instead?
I'll never understand, why can't they show Skate America live in Poland? It's not like they have something better to broadcast in the middle of the night...
Awww. You're welcome.
And I am exactly the same. I panic every season too, not just about the figure skating, but about most of the winter sports that Eurosport have traditionally shown. Because they are all getting edged out of the linear channels by other things, and relegated to the Player.
My main fear at the minute is that, now that Comcast has bought Sky, will we eventually see the figure skating move over to Sky Sports? After all, Sky is now the sister network of NBC Universal, who own the American rights.
We got rid of Sky Sports over 20 years ago because the subscription prices for it were extortionate. It is only worth paying if you watch Football, Cricket and Golf. And none of my family are interested in any of those sports. And much as I like figure skating, I wouldn't pay the prices that Sky Sports now costs.
Plus we have all heard the complaints on this forum about the NBC Universal coverage of figure skating...
(I reckon that if Sky did take over the figure skating, they would just use the American commentary. So, no more of our beloved Simon, Chris and co. )
That was my original thought too. But, as Miller has pointed out, there are only 2 segments on what is our Friday night / Saturday morning. So, probably not enough skating to fill out the 4½ hours (unless they put in adverts after every single skater, which I would not put past them!)
It's disappointing that so much of the LIVE coverage is on the Player, where we won't have the company of the British Eurosport commentators. But, it's better than nothing. And at least we will have them for the TV highlights of the segments that are only being shown on the Player.
CaroLiza_fan
I'm noticing more and more of events on the Player have commentary now. Could be a trend as they seem to be moving a lot of things off the linear channels to the player. All the winter sports I follow (alpine skiing, ski jumping, biathlon) are all still shown live on the linear channels. Other things I watch on YouTube and so on.
That's a good point.
So, it's anybody's guess what they will do. But, my money's on there being no commentary on the additional streams, for the reasons I mentioned in my reply to cathlen's complaint above.
CaroLiza_fan