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Trying to watch Skiing and Snowboarding on regular TV is almost impossible or never on these days??

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This does not help grow the area of Snow sports for someone to have to fight to find or pay to see the sport!!
It seems like most of the LIVE or REPLAYS of Snow sports (Skiing and Snowboarding etc.) are all online and behind paywalls these days. They seem to be only online now. Even a couple of years ago It used to be almost every weekend regular TV had Skiing or Snowboarding on during the Winter at some point in the day. Anyone got a handy skiandsnowbaord.live account/password to share?

All streaming sites that charge
Skiandsnowboard.live ($80 a year, $12month, $3per event)
Peacock ($8-$14 a month)
Outside+ (rarely on)
REGULAR TV
NBC (almost never on it seems)

Is there any other TV channel that shows snow sports these days?
 
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Yes it’s definitely a mess. Having to subscribe to both Peacock and skiandsnowboardlive is too much. I also hate the fact that most of the Peacock replays have no commentary. And the ones from the US are replays of what was aired which includes commercials and doesn’t show every skier. And US skiing wonders why interest is low.

Yesterdays woman’s super g was just that, super!
 
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This will only get worse as interest continues to fall.

I think the reason there is so little interest is the lack of recreational racing opportunities compared to the past. I cared very little to watch until I started racing myself a few years ago.

Back in the 80s and 90s there was NASTAR at countless ski areas. Now there's almost none. Back then it seemed everyone who skied knew who the Mahre brothers were or Peekaboo Street and it was on TV more often. Now, people only seem to care about the Olympics.

I wish the US was like Europe where racing is such a huge draw and the athletes all well known.
 
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The thing is skiing a terrible spectator sport.

I don't think the euros really care about the events either honestly, at least in terms of pure skiing and being die hard fans, but they do care about the World Cup party being in town.
 
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My understanding is European racers make much more in sponsorship dollars than the US and the sport is televised prime time many places.

If that's true, I think it's about more than just the party.

The reason why I think it's probably true is one of my customers in Caribou Maine helped run the pro XC race that comes to town. He said there would be many European TV networks that would come over to broadcast the races live. They could barely get USA media to show up. So, if there's that much interest in XC skiing that warrants their media coming here, lord knows it's gotta be much bigger back there for Alpine.
 
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2Planker said:
Who remembers ABC's Wide World of Sports every Saturday at 5pm....

If so, here's the classic clip "The Agony of Defeat"
https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...908835DD1A6B53FA4EBF908835DD1A6B53F&FORM=VIRE

Here's the full 5min version
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=abc wide world of sports ski wipeout&mid=A6ECE58A8B882343F7B6A6ECE58A8B882343F7B6&ajaxhist=0
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As a kid with 5 channels of TV to choose from, this was a highlight in my TV watching!
 
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deadheadskier said:
This will only get worse as interest continues to fall.

I think the reason there is so little interest is the lack of recreational racing opportunities compared to the past. I cared very little to watch until I started racing myself a few years ago.

Back in the 80s and 90s there was NASTAR at countless ski areas. Now there's almost none. Back then it seemed everyone who skied knew who the Mahre brothers were or Peekaboo Street and it was on TV more often. Now, people only seem to care about the Olympics.

I wish the US was like Europe where racing is such a huge draw and the athletes all well known.
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and now with the Olympics, we're shown more profile stories on the athletes, per hour, than actual full field races... we're here to watch the races!

FWIW, Okemo & SB still have NASTAR and Stowe's Ski Bum Race series is still going strong. I'd love to race in the ski bum series, but can't commit to being up there every Tues.
 
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deadheadskier said:
My understanding is European racers make much more in sponsorship dollars than the US and the sport is televised prime time many places.

If that's true, I think it's about more than just the party.

The reason why I think it's probably true is one of my customers in Caribou Maine helped run the pro XC race that comes to town. He said there would be many European TV networks that would come over to broadcast the races live. They could barely get USA media to show up. So, if there's that much interest in XC skiing that warrants their media coming here, lord knows it's gotta be much bigger back there for Alpine.
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Don't get me wrong, they obviously care a whole lot more than the US does, but I'm not buying that it is to watch the skiing exclusively. It still is a terrible sport to watch live or on TV.

I see a lot of national pride, ala the Austrians, that use skiing as a vehicle to show some national pride. Just like Simone Biles for the US. No one gives a shit about gymnastics but they like when someone from the US kicks ass at it. She makes good sponsorship money as well but do they even televise gymnastics at all outside of the Olympics? Same applied to Bode, or Lance (before doping ruined his rep).
 
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