Should there be a figure skating network on TV?

[GMAN]

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<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>Yes</FONT>&nbsp</td>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>Maybe</FONT>&nbsp</td>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>No</FONT>&nbsp</td>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>WE NEED IT SOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</FONT>&nbsp</td>
<td height><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>123&nbsp;/&nbsp;69.5%</FONT>&nbsp</td><td><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/bar.gif width=208 height=10 hspace=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE=2>Not ever!</FONT>&nbsp</td>
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[Liz D.]

I voted: we need it so bad! :lol

It would be great if there's a skating network!

[iloveskating]

DEFINITELY!! I've thought about this many times. They could show all the comps LIVE, I mean really LIVE, not live by tape delay etc. in their ENTIRETY, include pre- and post- event shows, interviews with the skaters, coaches etc, Do lots of educational info , like info on skater's program elements, jumps, how to identify moves, etc. Then the rest of the time the can just run an endless loop of tapes of past events.....

[GMAN]

Here would be the schedule!!

12:00-7:00 a.m-There will be Worlds,nationals,GPF,Grand Prix events etc. every night from past years.From 1945 to 2000.

7:00 am-8:00 am-"Tonya Court" with her and Nancy Kerrigan,with her boyfriend and more!!

9:00 am-10:30 am-"The Costume shop".It shows how they make costumes of skaters costumes,how they make them,put extra things on them and stuff like that.

10:30-11:00 am-Talk about if your a skater what you should eat,stretch,exercise,and people talk about how it has really made them a better skater.

11:00 am-1:00 pm-"Skaters Bios".A story of skaters life every week day.

11:00 am-1:00 pm in weekends-"Skating cartoons!

1:00-3:00-Days on Ice and Skating passions.The best sops(sp?)

3:00 pm-5:00-Skating Cartoons

5:00-6:00-7th Skating.A story about a family and the familys dad is a skater and trains for the olympics.He has a wife and 3 kids.

6:00-6:30 pm-people vote online to see what performances of skaters the will have.The have 3 every day.

6:30-7:00-look at 10:30 to 11:00 am

7:00-8:00"Favorite kiss & Cry moments,good and bad sportsmanships and great expressions of skaters when they find out they win.

8:00-9:00-Put other sports people,presidents etc. on skaters faces then they show them skate.

9:00-10:00-"Skating news!"

10:15-11:30 pm-David Ledderman with always skaters.

11:30 pm-12:00 am-Skating commercails

No commercails except for the "Skating Commercails

That would be sweet if they had a skating network!!!



7:00-

[GMAN]

That would be great iloveskating!!

[justsk8]

Ahhhh....... we can dream.........

That would be so cool! We'd all be hooked on the TV 24/7 though, how would we have time to come to this forum? And we'd have to eat, at least once a day...but I'd take it! :)

[Jubal316]

To dream... the impossible dream....

[Shallah]

coverage of regionals and sectionals in the top skating countries & ALL the Nationals in ALL the Skating countries! Add the Pro events and shows from other countries that are NEVER shown here!

[GMAN]

We came dream!!!I have a dream!!!!!!!!!!

[Beth2000]

I just voted.

Shallah your neice is adorable. Can I have her ;) I need a little girl.

[Mordecai71]

I would CANCEL all my other channels and watch this 24/7! Need to stock up on VCR tapes, though!

[kwanette]

to see some of the OLDER comps...Somewhere , someone has Dickie B.'s OLY and World performances, Albright, Heiss, JANET LYNN....interviews with past present and future champs, and not always champs.....Weeks....like they do on AMC...Michelle week, Tara week, Todd week....Oh, how grand....

[Rene]

Can you imagine??????

Seriously, why couldn't they have pay-per-view for Nationals and Worlds? Complete coverage. Do you think enough people would pay for it? Does anyone think it would work?

[GMAN]

It would work like eating a small peice of a grape!!!I think there would be like 100,000,000 in the world that would want to get this or maybe not but in america probably 10,000?Anyway,I think it would get soooo much money!!

[chinadoll]

G MAN: lol! :lol

wouldn't it be great to see all the past olympics, worlds, etc. and add them to your video collections?

[GMAN]

Ahhh!!!I`m crying!We need it sooooo bad!!!!Maybe we should get cable on strike:evil or maybe e-mail them until they get a Figure Skating network!!!!

[Icie]

lol - it would be like heaven on earth!!!!!!

[Shannonw]

YES!!! That would be so incredibly awesome! My family and friends would never see me again!
Shannon

[Mickies]

This concept sounds great. I wonder who will pony up
the big bucks for this venture. How about Ted Turner?
His TNT/TBS Networks aired many hours of skating
programming this past season. It sure is going to be quite
a challenge to get this idea to the production stage, though.
I guess we can dream.

[smileyllama]

Yes, I'd be great, but knowing our cable, I'd never get it.
:( :( :( :( :( :( *sniff* *sniff*

[dpierce]

I voted for it....
but im affraid there would be this great delima in my head if it ever happened,,,
lifetime....or skating...lifetime....or skating....hrm
I love the lifetime channel soooo much...who says its television for women? hrm ;-)

Dustin :-)

[TheGr8Sk8er]

YES!!!!!! I mean, look, we, or at least I have a Golf Channel. Figure skating is the second most watched sport (I really wish the networks would realize this!), so why not have a figure skating channel... I would even PAY to get it!

[Sandy]

oh definitely!!

sAndy

[Artec262]

We really neede bad.

[amandadupre]

That'd be awesome!!!

[Hadas]

G-Man- :rollin on the floor :lol !

I would LOVE a figure skating channel!! WE NEED IT BAD! especially for offseason, could you imagine the ratings?! WOW :eek

But then, Heather will have trouble with her figure skating schedual! uh-oh!

[mk4ever]

G Man, you just took the works right out of my mouth. that schedule is a master piece.

i say : i need it so BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!

we can keep on dreaming.:O

my fav site at: www.mxgbeachcountdown.com

[amethyst]

I love the results on this poll...lol Do you think that means we need a FS network? :)

I wish that there could be a cable channel that does FS and Gymnastics since the seasons are almost opposite. They'd never have a lack of coverage and could show all levels. I'd watch it constantly.

[Cherie]

I think it's a great idea, but in all actuallity, I think I would lose my mind. I'm one that has to record everything concerning figure skating. I'm having a tough time now, trying to figure out how I'm going to get everything recorded this month alone. I can't imagine if it were on 24 hours a day. I'd never have time for anything else.

[chocolateluvr]

oh my, if there was one, I'd never stop watching tv.

chocolateluvr

[michellesmom]

I had a revelation over the weekend--we need a network TV channel dedicated to Figure Skating during the winter and Gymnastics during the summer.

[Jacalyn]

I agree with michellesmom. But if that would happen, I would never get anything accomplished!!

[TAF2984]

No gymnastics and Fs together all year not particular seasons.

[peglewis]

To quote Carruthers: "Absolutely!"

Peg

[SargentIV]

This, I think was mentioned above. Since figure skating isn't the only artistic sport that is ignored by television we could have an artistic sports network. There could be figure skating, gymnastics, diving, synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, and equestrian.

I want to go into communications and I've always thought about doing something related to my true passion, the Olympics so maybe if you guys give me some suggestions when I grow up maybe I'll be some sort of entrepeneur and create The Overlooked Sports Channel.

[HamiltonBrowningFan]

:lol honest G... just let me get out of highschool and started in college and I promise I'll do my darndest to get one going :lol

[3axel]

It wouldn't work with only figure skating. It would have to have other stuff to help get a good enough rating so the cable companies would want it. Maybe it would work if it also had tennis and gymnastics which are also good & intelligent and are individual sports like figure skating. As long as there it had NO TEAM SPORTS, which would ruin it. Also no junk sports like the stuff on ESPN2.

[EigthAv]

Absolutely!!!!