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- Jan 5, 2019
Hurray !!! 1st of September, Knowledge Day, First Ring of the Bell !! Very appropriate moment to celebrate for these children, they are going back to school
If true, sad news indeed.
TV shows are a volatile business, the show might have been an artistic success but could be a financial loss at the same time.
Small Arena at Luzhnikakh for a week, ice, trainers, judges, staff and crew, hotels for kids and parents from outside of Moscow, it all adds up. And few advertisements on kids shows.
FK, that was started by Channel One before National Championships, only had three episodes, the one supposedly recorded with Kostornaya got never broadcasted.
I recently read in the comments section of a sports.ru article that Kostya/Konstantin Lesik of sports24 said that 1st channel regrets buying the rights to figure skating because it doesn't bring in the interest and revenue they were expecting: https://www.sports.ru/figure-skating/1084072980.html (comment thread of the most upvoted top comment)
Hmm.... the ice age Instagram account has made a couple of posts in the past few days after being completely silent since February: https://www.instagram.com/ice_1tv/
No announcements, just "do you remember" and "what was your favorite" kind of posts. It's a good sign nonetheless.
The Instagram page was last advertising the 4CC in early February: https://www.instagram.com/ice_kids_1tv/
The Youtube page(which almost has 250K subscribers) last uploaded the Navka-Zagitova ice show in late Januargy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR7_eJ_lYr7CedzMmgLIRyA/videos