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Eighteen
10-13-2002, 11:59 AM
Are any of the US networks covering this event, and if so does anyone know when coverage begins. Haven't seen any promos on the major networks. Candian coverage of Skate America is usually after the fact...
:roll:
Thanx
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adrianchew
10-13-2002, 01:22 PM
Moved to where it belongs. Please post in the right forum in the future. Thanks. ~adrianchew~
purplecat
10-13-2002, 04:12 PM
October 27th ABC 1 to 3 p.m. EST/3 to 5 p.m. PST (Ladies Free and Free Dance)...that Pacific time slot is AFTER golf! Arrgh! :x
October 28th ESPN 9 to 11 p.m. EST/ 6 to 8 p.m. PST (Pairs Short and Men's Short)
November 3rd ABC 1 to 2 p.m. and continued at 5 to 6 p.m. EST/ 2 to 4 p.m PST (Pairs Free and Men's Free)
Eighteen
10-14-2002, 11:36 AM
Thanks!
CarolA0923
10-26-2002, 10:41 AM
Could be worse, In middle TN we get TSU vs somebody (locally produced college football) instead of Skate America!
Reckless
10-26-2002, 11:58 AM
On my end, the PST time is after a preview for an upcoming golf championship. A tournament is supposed to end at 2, with the one-hour preview beginning after that. So unless the main tournament runs extremely late, I assume that the skating will start on time.
A.H.Black
10-26-2002, 04:07 PM
Eighteen - you can always find U.S. skating coverage listed on Heathers schedule.
http://heatherw.com/mk/sch.htm
Heather has been doing this for years and is amazingly accurate.
I thought Adrian had this link permanently posted but I can't find it right now. You'll want to bookmark it for future reference.
lze344
10-26-2002, 04:47 PM
I'm probably about to kill myself but here I go.
If people give me requests for skaters I can get their performances online. Men, ladies, pairs, dance. Okay, there it is, I did it.
twinkle
10-27-2002, 04:40 AM
I would really appreciate Kirk and Liashenko, Joubert and Abt, Totmianina/Marinin, Langlois/Archetto, the ZHangs if you get them and Belbin/Agosto.
Thankyou:) :D :)
twinkle
10-27-2002, 05:44 AM
How could I forget???
Yags' short as well if possible.
Morgana Shee
10-27-2002, 08:36 AM
Would you be kind enough to upload either of Emanuel Sandhu's programs, if you get them? (not likely to happen, but just in case...)
darn, darn, darn...
How much you wanna bet next weekend's coverage is smack-dab in the middle of CTV's Skate Canada coverage? I know...haven't looked yet, but Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) and I are on VERY good terms!
:x
singerskates
10-27-2002, 11:53 AM
That's why it pays to have Satilite. YOu can watch things later if you need to watch something when it's on at the same time.
May I sugest Bell Expressvu or Star Choice in Canada and if you're from the US Direct TV or one of the other ones. YOu could hook up and see it all this year.
Local TV and cable just doesn't cut it when you need to time shift to see things.
Brigitte
manleywoman
10-27-2002, 12:23 PM
I can't beleive the DC area ABC station bumped Skate America for the movie "A Bug's Life!" After history was made last night with those triple axels and they put on a movie that anyone could rent at any time.
And I have to work tomorrow night so I can't see the coverage tomorrow on ESPN. I am soooo mad right now. I emailed ABC.
If anyone hears about when they may be re-running the Ladies Long, please post it and let me know. Thanks
A.H.Black
10-27-2002, 02:19 PM
Don't email ABC. Go after your local station. We had a five year battle with our local station but they finally learned. If they keep giving you a hassle, find out who your affiliated rep is at ABC. They probably don't know that skating got bumped or that so many people are upset. If you talk to them, things will change over time. Believe me - ABC wants ABC programming to be broadcast.
Your next project needs to be to contact your local station early in the week concerning the following week's programming. If they plan to pre-empt, start screaming early. At one point we even went after the advertisers - both of figure skating (to let them know we wanted to see it) and of the program broadcast instead of skating (to let them know that the program they sposored was pre-empting a program we wanted to see). You can make a difference - Go after it
Once we got the Ladies finals of Worlds pre-empted for a high school basketball game!
Did anyone record yesterday's broadcast and is able to make a copy of it on his PC for me? I live in Israel, and i'm SSSOOOO desperate for some GP!
speedy
10-29-2002, 10:42 AM
We didn't get to see SA on ABC here again this year, as usual! :evil: :evil: I am so sick of this...I e-mail or call them every year and it never changes. I also contact ABC but it doesn't matter. I wish ESPN would show all the coverage so at least I know we'd be able to see it!! And it doesn't matter if you have digital cable or satellite, you can only get your local affiliate either way! My problem isn't time-shifting (that's what VCR's are for)...it's getting to see the coverage at all. Our digital cable in our area is much better than satellite...you get the same channels (actually more with cable) and much better service and less problems, but you still can't get another ABC affiliate like you used to on some cable services or the old huge satellite dishes. Maybe we'll get the Ice Channel next year on cable and I can see this year's coverage next year LOL.
lze344
11-05-2002, 02:37 PM
Okay, here's the situation with the videos for Skate America. I was busy all week with school so I never got around to any of them. Also, I messed up taping the event two Sundays ago so I missed the last 40 minutes or so. Out of all the requests I don't have video of Kirk or Liashenko's performances on tape. I'm going to start with the videos now so look for those sometime soon.
lze344
11-06-2002, 06:51 PM
I've finished making all of the videos. There are eight videos but I don't know where to put them yet. I'll figure it out sometime soon.
Now, I recorded ABC and ESPN's coverage of skating this past weekend which was a mixture of Skate America and Skate Canada. Should I just make videos of the same people? Here's a link to Sasha's SP at Skate Canada:
Sasha Cohen - Skate Canada short program (http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/lze_vids/sasha.html)
If someone could make a file of Joubert's short program, which is the only program from what i wanted to see which i'm missing, that would be great.
I have on my PC in great quality - all of the broadcasts of SC, and the Men LP from SA. I'm trying to compress them into smaller files so other people can share them with me, because the quality is really good, much better than the real player files...
lze344
11-07-2002, 02:28 AM
I have Joubert's short program and I'll find a place to put it online soon (this weekend is when I'll find some place to put these files).
I've been making videos since April and I've gained a lot of experience so that now it's a pretty easy to get a video compressed, it just takes awhile for processing. Send me an email or look for me on AIM or Yahoo chat (all the info is in my profile) and I can help you figure this all out.
lze344
11-08-2002, 01:36 PM
I've put four of the videos online. twinkle and Morgana Shee, can you please tell me when you download the videos you wanted so I can then put the rest up on the same website. So, here's video of the short programs of Abt, Yagudin, Joubert, and Sandhu at Skate America.
Skate America Short Programs (http://lze344.ipaska.com)
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