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- How to Watch DOMESTIC U.S. World Cups: Outside+ and NBC platforms
- How to Watch INTERNATIONAL FIS World Cup Events: skiandsnowboard.live
- How to Watch AUSTRIAN FIS World Cup Events
- How to Watch SLOVENIAN FIS World Cup Events
- How to Watch CANADIAN FIS World Cup Events
- How to Watch FINNISH FIS World Cup Events When It's Cold Out
- How to Watch FRENCH FIS World Cup Events When You Are Tipsy
- How to Watch ITALIAN FIS World Cup Events With A Plate On Your Lap And Marta's Brother In Law Laughing So Loudly You Can't Hear The Commentary
- How to Watch ITALIAN FIS World Cup Events With A Plate On Your Lap WITHOUT Marta's Brother In Law In The Room
Good tip. I need to look into this because one of my perennial challenges is that I really like to watch this stuff on an actual TV (as opposed to my phone or a laptop or something). It being not really "my" TV, household politics being what they are, I don't have unlimited options on how to configure things. Installing an app on Apple TV, however, is definitely within the possible.It also appears that Outside+ is an option for pure streams (they have an app for most streaming boxes e.g. Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick).
This. I will watch replays on YouTube while exercising but if I am getting up early or having a drink I want this on a TV. Paying so I can just see the events on an app, PC, tablet, or iPhone is not going to happen.Good tip. I need to look into this because one of my perennial challenges is that I really like to watch this stuff on an actual TV (as opposed to my phone or a laptop or something). It being not really "my" TV, household politics being what they are, I don't have unlimited options on how to configure things. Installing an app on Apple TV, however, is definitely within the possible.
Edit: Well, if the reviews are anything to go by the Outside+ app is not worth installing.
For the womens rugby World Cup that started earlier this month they didn’t announce the broadcast schedule or show up in the app until two days before the first game so I am not too worried about this yet…I checked a day or two ago. No snowsports options under the sports tab. If past experience is any guide, they will show up about fifteen minutes before or after the first race starts.
So USSS sent an email to its membership clarifying the FIS broadcast schedule and.... it's complicated.
Any domestic FIS World Cup event (alpine/freestyle/snowboard/nordic) will be carried on Outside+ and/or Peacock Plus/Premium.
Any non-U.S. competition that is not an Austrian event will be on FIS' streaming service (which, to these eyes, is ridiculously overpriced for what it offers).
Any Austrian events will be on the ÖSV streaming service.
Whatever the case: it's not simple, it's not fan-friendly.
I'm this close to taking on a Discovery+ UK subscription and a VPN to watch the EuroSport coverage if USSS can't work out a deal that has things on Peacock or Outside+. The FIS pricing schema is too similar to that of FloSports - i.e. premium pricing for a less-than-premium product.
Just my $0.02, as usual...
Great post.I find this very unfortunate….I was going to say “almost unbelievable”……but sadly given who we’re dealing with it’s not just entirely believable, it’s to be expected.
Given the background of the new USSS CEO, the people who she has on staff….and the experience, strength and connections of the USSS/USST board, IMO, there is ZERO EXCUSE for yet another year of this charade.
The organization can’t hit a single one of their financial goals without increasing awareness, exposure, excitement, more interest, more followers……Seriously. Impossible.
THE yearly pre-Soelden pain in the ass!!!!
I'm a longtime subscriber to the print versions of both Outside and Ski Magazine and they don't give me access to Outside+. I wrote to them and was told I needed to buy a specific Outside+ sub. My response to this: hell no.If you subscribe to Outside, Ski Magazine, VeloNews, or one of their other services you likely already have Outside+.
I find this very unfortunate….I was going to say “almost unbelievable”……but sadly given who we’re dealing with it’s not just entirely believable, it’s to be expected.
Given the background of the new USSS CEO, the people who she has on staff….and the experience, strength and connections of the USSS/USST board, IMO, there is ZERO EXCUSE for yet another year of this charade.
The organization can’t hit a single one of their financial goals without increasing awareness, exposure, excitement, more interest, more followers……Seriously. Impossible.
THE yearly pre-Soelden pain in the ass!!!!
Amen to that!Great post.
My two cents: You have to love the game before you're ever going to love the team. The mistake they're making - and have made forever - is thinking that the priority is to get people to love AMERICAN ski racing. What they need to do is get people to love SKI RACING and then the love for the American racers will follow. And you're not going to love the game if you can't freaking watch it.
Yep, a friend just send me a text moments ago and sure enough - they are now listed on Peacock.For those of you with Peacock, the Solden races are now showing up on the upcoming schedule. Add them to "my stuff" and you can watch them on your schedule. I get Peacock with my cable package.
I don't think the Outside+ deal is a solid marketing play to build interest and excitement about alpine ski racing. I can get better coverage of cornhole and curling on my tv than I can skiing.
This, x100. And get away from myopically focusing on Olympic years; this stopped being an amateur sport decades ago. I think about all the new F1 fans, myself included, that got sucked into the sport by Drive to Survive. This is not a problem USSS can solve, but FIS should take a page from Liberty Media's playbook from when they bought F1. Obviously, FIS and F1 are totally different types of organizations (one being a federation of national ski organizations, the other a business) but if FIS could get a Netflix show and a streaming service that covers all the races, it could draw in a ton of new fans.Great post.
My two cents: You have to love the game before you're ever going to love the team. The mistake they're making - and have made forever - is thinking that the priority is to get people to love AMERICAN ski racing. What they need to do is get people to love SKI RACING and then the love for the American racers will follow. And you're not going to love the game if you can't freaking watch it.
When was the last time that was the case though?Geez, what happens when you don’t have a personable, and somewhat known, star as Mikaela? Plus the Killington race.
Before Bode mid 2000’s, and after the Mahre brothers. Course Bode might have been more infamous for his 2006 Torino debacle.When was the last time that was the case though?
I'd think Bode's coming out party in SLC would have pushed him into that category.Before Bode mid 2000’s, and after the Mahre brothers. Course Bode might have been more infamous for his 2006 Torino debacle.
The number of skiers on the hill, who don’t recognize Mikaela’s name, is rather large.