Welcome to Golden Skate, alexocfp! Post long and often!
Welcome and post often. Do you have any new favorite skaters?I subscribed to Peacock for the Premier League and World Cup skiing.
To my own amazement and shock, after they added the skating package, I’ve watched all the ladies’ events they have streamed.
I came for the Prem and skiing, and stayed for the skating.
Crazy thing is that I haven’t watched skating since the days of Katerina Witt and the Nancy/Tanya/Oksana fiasco.
Man, 13 year old me loved Katarina. Haha
I stayed up all night recently trying to figure out how this new scoring works. You need a degree in advanced mathematics it seems. Einstein would have quit trying to decipher this system.
Don’t think you want me posting yet. I’m a complete novice that has no idea what I’m talking about anyway.Welcome to Golden Skate, alexocfp! Post long and often!
Thank you.Welcome and post often. Do you have any new favorite skaters?
Does the ISU and/or USFSA have any competitions available online on sites such as YouTube from last and other prior seasons?
I keep a list of you tube links to various competitions. The links come and go as sites get taken down, but it is still a good place to start.I was finally able to track down a human at Peacock who unfortunately informed me that there is currently no plan to feature other competitions from prior to the current season on Peacock. I was advised to keep checking their social media accounts for any updates. So, if you are a NBC Sports Gold subscriber, you have less than two weeks left to enjoy anything from last season.
Does the ISU and/or USFSA have any competitions available online on sites such as YouTube from last and other prior seasons?
Thank you to icecoverage and labgoat for the video information. You had some great info that I wasn't aware of!Belated thanks for all the suggestions. I have been trying to complete watching all of the competitions on NBC Sports Gold that I have missed before the site goes down next week. Hopefully, I can make it up through Four Continents 2020 by then.
Has anyone subscribed to Peacock yet? I assume it has the same functionality (on demand, fast forward/rewind, etc.) as NBC Sports Gold. I may pass for this season. Assuming Nationals and Worlds occur, I can watch them on television. I can tolerate the commentary and, if I record the coverage, fast forward through the commercials!
... I checked out the Figure Skating Fanzone site, which is difficult to navigate. It is not user friendly. Under the video section, you have to know what year and specific title to put into the search section. And the competitions go by various names so what you are looking for may not come up even if it's there unless you get the event and year accurate. The only alternative is to scroll in time-consuming fashion through all the videos. ...
The 2019 U.S. International Skating Classic is there, along with the U.S. Pairs Final Challenge events for 2020 (junior and senior I believe). However, 2018 and 2019 U.S. Nationals events are not there. It's only the Ice Desk commentary before and after the events that's available. Unless those U.S. Nationals videos are somewhere on the platform where I can't find them.
Under the listing of "2019 U.S. Championships," Fan Zone (perhaps very recently?) has added some of the junior segments.
Not to be confused with the listing of "2019 GEICO U.S. Figure Skating Championships," which has novice, intermediate, and juvenile.
Does anyone know how to find 2020 NHK Trophy on Peacock? This platform is NOT user friendly at all. They should place all of the figure skating in one section. I'm pulling my hair out trying to find all of the events by searching under a specific title that is unclear. The only way I found Rostelecom and Cup of China was putting '2020' in the search bar. If I put in 'Grand Prix Skating' only 2019 Skate America comes up. Also 'Ice Skating' and 'Figure Skating' only brings up 2019 Skate America for some reason. And then another time, I found the recent NBC anniversary event, but it's a crapshoot going under Browse and then Sports, or using the Search tool. It shouldn't be this difficult.
Anyone who can offer help, thank you.
It’s certainly not keyword-search friendly, that’s for sure!Go to Browse ->Sports then scroll down to Figure Skating section click View All to the right, you will find the videos descending by the release date. The videos for NHK Trophy are called Ice Skating Osaka.
Yeah I agree Peacock TV is not user friendly.
Icenetwork was awesome. I mourn it’s demise. Wonder who we could ask about this.The thing I like about Peacock is it's cheap (only $4.99 a month) and you can pause your subscription if you want. I signed up for the trial ahead of Rostelecom and was able to watch that competition and go back and watch Skate America too...all for $5. After Rostelecom I paused my account and still had access to videos until almost the end of December (like the 27th). I'll reactivate it before nationals so I can watch and pause it after. Basically, I'll activate it when there's something I want to watch and pause it once it's over. I like this format...
I'd love to know what happen to all of those video archives from Ice Network. They had full seasons of skating going back 5 or 6 years at the time. When they made the switch to NBC Gold I thought those videos were coming over but they never did, and it was frustrating that Gold never had more than one season available to watch. Essentially it was a huge rip-off considering its predecessor. Ice Network had its issues but the amount of content was amazing and made it worth it.
It'd be nice if they could stop bouncing stuff around and find a dedicated place for all of the skating stuff.