sillycinnamon: well, shoot, if they sold it as a package to your home country, then that pretty much confirms my fear that that's what's happened to the Netherlands, too. Meaning there's no chance in heck I can watch FS either on television, nor on NOS livestream, nor on youtube. Because the NOS would *never* show figure skating, no matter how many broadcasting licences they have. 

 

 

edit: I have decided I don’t need more drama in my life, and so I have bought a VPN. Got a good deal, I think, just over 3 euros per month for three years, so that should take care of all this stupidity for the time being. :-)

for italian fans, it looks like we are indeed geoblocked

I verified, on ISU YT channel it doesn't even display any of the planned stream. And still nothing about RAI streaming anything. How amazing to pay for something I don't even get to watch

Since I am actually paying for a legal streaming that I won't get, and since GPF tickets were robbery already, I'll stubbornly try to avoid paying for a vpn, too

atm it looks to me like some free vpn might work (at least, when activating them I get to see the planned livestreaming on the ISU channel). Opera worked mostly fine with previous isu livestreaming but it's to be seen if it will grant me some decent quality ('cause watching 240p or a stream that keeps buffering is almost more frustrating than not getting any  video at all...)

 

I wrote to Rai sport ,no answers yet ...and nothing on their schedule either

I'm furious, but I'm still hoping that they will stream it on web, but I'm not so confident ...

17 hours ago, Winnie_20 said:

sillycinnamon: well, shoot, if they sold it as a package to your home country, then that pretty much confirms my fear that that's what's happened to the Netherlands, too. Meaning there's no chance in heck I can watch FS either on television, nor on NOS livestream, nor on youtube. Because the NOS would *never* show figure skating, no matter how many broadcasting licences they have. 

 

 

edit: I have decided I don’t need more drama in my life, and so I have bought a VPN. Got a good deal, I think, just over 3 euros per month for three years, so that should take care of all this stupidity for the time being. :-)

 

Probably it's similar in the Netherlands, yes.

 

Well the good news is that I e-mailed the broadcaster and got a reply back - very quickly, in five minutes -  that they won't stream Skate America but they're planning to stream all other GP events on their site (m4sport.hu), which would be great. Hope they keep their word and they'll be streaming it.  

 

Otherwise VPN is always a solution.

NBC Gold is offering a free trial for Skate America this weekend for some countries - https://www.nbcsports.com/gold/int.

 

You have to give them payment details when you register, but you can go straight into your account and tell it not to renew.

 

 

From the sounds of it, it was a package deal everywhere. And of course a very high asking price. 
Dutch NOS probably paid whatever they had to to obtain the license for the speed skating... and got useless FS license along with it.

For most other countries, it would be the other way around, lol. I wonder how many will bother airing or streaming any of the huge amount of speed skating they now have the rights to?! ;-)

1 hour ago, LadyLou said:

for italian fans, it looks like we are indeed geoblocked

I verified, on ISU YT channel it doesn't even display any of the planned stream.

 

Oddly enough, I can see them listed fine... and no hint whatsoever that the actual stream might be blocked.

Would be funny if I just bought a VPN for nothing (nah, not nothing, I have been in need of one for quite a while, it was actually an item on my To Do list, lol).

Tomorrow evening, we will know the truth!

Here is the CTV/TSN broadcast schedule for Skate Canada:  

 

https://www.tsn.ca/2019-20-figure-skating-schedule-on-tsn-ctv-1.631528

 

Maybe this link can be added to the event thread when we have one!

21 hours ago, Winnie_20 said:

Oddly enough, I can see them listed fine... and no hint whatsoever that the actual stream might be blocked.

Would be funny if I just bought a VPN for nothing (nah, not nothing, I have been in need of one for quite a while, it was actually an item on my To Do list, lol).

Tomorrow evening, we will know the truth!

 

Aaaaaand... I bought the VPN for nothing!

 

Because, lo and behold... the NOS and the Netherlands are no longer on the list!!

https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/news/news-fsk/12731-where-to-watch-isu-grand-prix-of-figure-skating-series-2019?templateParam=15

 

(Yes, I know I can cancel the VPN service, but I'm not going to. It's honestly been on my To Do list for ages, I just never made the time and effort to look into it until now. Glad I've done so now. plenty of opportunities to use it still.)

Anyone any luck with VPN? I tried one and I am still not able to watch the live stream. 

5 minutes ago, 4Nessie said:

Anyone any luck with VPN? I tried one and I am still not able to watch the live stream. 

Some people in the SkAm threads are having luck with the VPN built into Opera?

3 minutes ago, madraykin said:

Some people in the SkAm threads are having luck with the VPN built into Opera?

 

It is working! Wow! Thank you!

Wait, where did this come from?!

https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/infront/

 

Infront...?

14 hours ago, Winnie_20 said:

Wait, where did this come from?!

https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/infront/

 

Infront...?

wait were they streaming the event??