Talk:ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
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- Fall international competitions such as Skate America, organized by the skating federations of their host countries, had been held for many years prior to their organization into a series. Following the Nancy Kerrigan attack in 1994, television coverage of skating was saturated with made-for-TV professional skating events, while the traditional "amateur" or "eligible" competitions were neglected. In order to remedy this situation, in 1995, the federations from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, and Japan began to plan their events as a series with cooperative marketing of the television rights in those countries, and prize money funded by the sale of those rights. At this point, the International Skating Union stepped in and asserted its ownership of the international television rights to the series.
thanks —Pelladon 21:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- See Beverly Smith's book, A Year in Figure Skating -- that year being 1995-96, so she goes into quite a bit of detail about how the then brand-new Champions Series came about. Dr.frog 23:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
