NBC Sports and Oxygen Media Pair Up For 2009 World Figure Skating Championships This Week

Athens, GA (Mar 25, 2009) - I will admit it, I love watching figure skating. With the right music and performance passion, it really is a beautiful sight to behold. On television that is. To me, this is one of those sports where you miss the intensity and passion on the skaters faces if sitting in the stands.So I will sit with the kids this weekend (if they are interested) and try to catch some of the limited coverage that will be on NBC Sports, as we do not receive Oxygen (on TV at least). It will be a shame that the men's finals will not air on free TV, but they do not translate in ratings success as much as the ladies do.In all, NBC Sports and Oxygen Media will combine to air 16 hours from the World Figure Skating Championships, the most prestigious and important figure skating competition outside of the Olympics, as the skaters prepare for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver next February on NBC.Oxygen, available in more than 74 million homes, will air 14 hours (10 hours live...