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Appendix:
Prize Money in Eligible Skating:
ISU
Prize Money:
The
ISU pays prize money to the first five places in all four categories
for the Grand Prix Series events. For the Grand Prix Series final,
the top six finishers get prize money, plus bonuses. A bonus purse is
set aside for athletes who scored points but did not qualify for the
Grand Prix Final, though the points only count if they did not get
prize money for the event. Exhibition fees are also paid to skaters
who have not won prize money but perform in the exhibition. Pairs and
dance have to split the purse.
The
total prize purses for the Grand Prix have gone down in the last two
years, since the ISU went from a $22+ million per year contract with
ABC to a $5 million per year contract with ESPN.
Prize Money for ISU Events (pairs/ice dance purse is per
couple) in USD:
| | Grand Prix Events (05-06) | Grand
Prix Final (05-06) | Worlds (05) | Europeans (05) | Four Continents
(05) |
|---|
| Place | L/M | P/D | L/M | P/D | L/M | P/D | L/M | P/D | L/M | P/D |
| 1 | 18,000 | 18,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 45,000 | 67,500 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 15,000 | 22,500 |
| 2 | 13,000 | 13,000 | 18,000 | 18,000 | 27,000 | 40,500 | 13,000 | 19,500 | 9,000 | 13,500 |
| 3 | 9,000 | 9,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 | 18,000 | 27,000 | 8,000 | 12,000 | 6,000 | 9,000 |
| 4 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 13,000 | 19,500 | 6,500 | 9,750 | 4,500 | 6,750 |
| 5 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 3,250 | 5,000 |
| 6 | N/A | N/A | 3,000 | 3,000 | 7,000 | 10,500 | 4,000 | 6,000 | 2,500 | 3,750 |
| 7 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6,000 | 9,000 | 3,500 | 5,250 | 2,250 | 3,500 |
| 8 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 5,000 | 7,500 | 3,000 | 4,500 | 2,000 | 3,000 |
| 9 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 3,500 | 5,250 | 2,500 | 3,750 | 1,750 | 2,500 |
| 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 3,000 | 4,500 | 2,000 | 3,000 | 1,500 | 2,250 |
| 11 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2,500 | 3,750 | 1,500 | 2,250 | 1,250 | 1,750 |
| 12 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2,000 | 3,000 | 1,000 | 1,500 | 1,000 | 1,500 |
| Total: | 180,000 | 272,000 | 710,000 | 350,000 | 250,000 |
USFSA
prize money (starting late 2004) to US skaters medaling at 11
international events.
| Event | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|
| Skate
America | 10,000 | 5,000 | 3,000 |
| Skate
Canada | 10,000 | 5,000 | 3,000 |
| NHK
Trophy | 10,000 | 5,000 | 3,000 |
| Cup of
China | 10,000 | 5,000 | 3,000 |
| Trophee Eric Bombard
Cachemire | 10,000 | 5,000 | 3,000 |
| Cup of
Russia | 10,000 | 5,000 | 3,000 |
| ISU Junior Grand Prix
Final | 5,000 | 3,000 | 1,000 |
| ISU Grand Prix
Final | 15,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 |
| Four Continents
Championships | 15,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 |
| World Junior
Championships | 15,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 |
| World
Championships | 35,000 | 25,000 | 15,000 |
Prize Money at each of 3 USFSA events (Campbells,
Marshalls World Cup, Marshalls International FS Challenge) in the
2004-05 season:
| Place | Prize (Men) | Prize (Ladies) |
|---|
| 1st | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| 2nd | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| 3rd | $15,000 | $15,000 |
| 4th | $5,000 | $5,000 |
| 5th | $3,000 | $3,000 |
| 6th | $2,000 | $2,000 |
| Total | $100,000 | $100,000 |
Sources:
- Short interview with Yuka Sato, Nov. 17, 2005
- Short interview with David Pelletier, Dec. 4, 2005
- Short interview with Anton Sikharulidze, Dec. 4, 2005
- Short interview with Alexei Yagudin, Dec. 4, 2005
- Personal communication with Byron Allen, Dec. 16, 2005
- Personal communication with Steve Disson, Dec. 21, 2005
- Personal communication with Brian Boitano, Dec. 23, 2005
- Personal communication with Kurt Browning, Dec. 4, 2005 and
Jan. 22, 2006
- Personal communication with Cristi Carras, Jan. 9, 2006
- Personal communication with Fred Boucherle, Jan. 16, 2006
- Golden
Skate Pro/Pro-Am Competition Results Database
- Wikipedia (various pages,
to confirm various facts)
- 1994
baseball strike (Wikipedia)
- 1994-95
NHL lockout (Wikipedia)
- NBC Olympics
- International Skating Union
- Kurt Files'
Stars on Ice Tour History
- Stars on Ice
- Champions on Ice
- Disson Skating
- TLC:
Ice Diaries
- Skating with Celebrities
- Skating's Next Star
- Frozen Assets: The New Order of Figure Skating by Mark Lund,
Ashton International Media, 2003.
- Landing it, My Life On And Off The Ice by Scott Hamilton
with Lorenzo Benet, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1999.
- 2000
USFSA Budget Summary (Skateweb, April 15, 2000)
- Sports
TV gets pricier and pricier. Here's why (Media Life Magazine,
April 12, 2001)
- Growing
chill for pro ice skating (Media Life Magazine, Jan. 6, 2004)
- U.S.
Figure Skating Announces $600,000 in Prize Money for 2004-05
Season (USFSA, July 14, 2004)
- Women
have turned chilly to TV sports (Media Life Magazine, April 20, 2004)
- Figure
skating chief planning for the future (The Gazette, Oct. 12, 2004)
- New
U.S. Figure Skating Program Provides Bonus Money to U.S. Skaters who
Medal in Designated International Events (USFSA, Oct. 18, 2004)
- ISU
president seeking to overhaul Grand Prix (SFGate, Jan. 28, 2005)
- ESPN
can't figure its skating ratings (San Diego Union-Tribune, April
1, 2005)
- With
the Colts, CBS could score again (Media Life Magazine, Dec. 18,
2005) (Ice Wars ratings)
- St.
Louis Today article, January 2006
- U.S.
Medalists Cash In (Newhouse News Service, Feb. 14, 2006)
- Olympics
on TV: Where's the buzz? (USA Today, Feb. 16, 2006)
- NBC
Draws Lowest Winter Olympics TV Ratings for Turin (Bloomberg News,
Feb. 28, 2006)
- ABC's
Oscars Drew 2nd-Smallest TV Audience Since 1987 (Bloomberg News,
March 6, 2006)
- Box
office slumped in 2005 (Toronto Star, Mar. 12, 2006)
- How to lure
patrons to the box office? (LA Daily News, Mar. 15, 2006)
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Steve Disson
Disson Skating
Steve Disson has
been involved in the sport of figure skating since 1989, through the
Sudafed Skating Gymnastics Spectacular in Vail, CO. He initially came
in through the sponsor side of the business, representing Sudafed, and
was responsible for finding and reorganizing the event to benefit both
the sponsor and the event. He went on to work with Brian Boitano and
Katarina Witt on their Skating tour, bringing in Chrysler as a
sponsor, and getting the show aired on CBS in 1992. He also brought
Chrysler in as the sponsor for the Nutcracker on Ice tour. Through
his association with Brian Boitano, Disson began to become involved on
the production side of things, working with White Canvas Productions
to produce the Skating Romance show and other made-for-TV specials
that aired primarily on the USA Network. He went on to help create
and produce Brian's show for NBC, as well as an event with Katarina
Witt, and then partnered with Robin Cousins to produce the StarSkates
series. "Before you knew it, we had eight shows a year on NBC that I
was producing, and buying the time on NBC, and then selling it to
different sponsors, and finding sites to do the event...Basically, the
concept behind them all was one time only made for TV specials with
live entertainers...I've done a lot of skating shows over the years
with Robin and Brian, and trying to get with good, not only name
skaters, but people who are having interest creatively in producing
unique and quality programming for television."
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