How to watch the 2026 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships

[labgoat]

I have information on how to access US Nationals if it doesn't get posted in its own thread.
My information is based on what worked last year. I condensed the instructions and added the schedules.

Practice Streaming (last year they were posted to USFS I believe, but no guarantees)
Practices will be live streamed on Peacock. All times Central; subject to change

Tuesday, Jan. 6
Women | 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Men | 1:15-3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 7
Ice Dance | 8-10 a.m.
Men | 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 8
Women | 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 9
Ice Dance | 7:30-8:55 a.m.
Men | 9:25-11:25 a.m.

Novice events will be available to watch on the U.S. Figure Skating YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@USFigureSkating

Novice and Junior Schedule
Sunday, Jan. 4

• Junior and Novice Official Practices

Monday, Jan. 5

• 10 a.m. | Novice Pattern Dance
• 11:20 a.m. | Junior Rhythm Dance
• 1:30 p.m. | Novice Pairs Short Program
• 2:20 p.m. | Junior Pairs Short Program
• 4:25 p.m. | Junior Women's Short Program
• 7:10 p.m. | Junior Men's Short Program

Tuesday, Jan. 6

• 8:30 a.m. | Novice Free Dance
• 9:25 a.m. | Junior Free Dance
• 12:10 p.m. | Novice Pairs Free Skate
• 1:05 p.m. | Junior Pairs Free Skate
• 3:50 p.m. | Junior Women's Free Skate
• 6:50 p.m. | Junior Men's Free Skate

All Junior and Senior Events will be broadcast on Peacock (geoblocked for outside USA)

TheTVApp for USA Network/NBC: This will buffer a lot – so clear your cache
Any streaming TV app that lets you access USA and NBC channels will work for the senior events.

• USA NETWORK live stream - TheTVApp thetvapp.to
• WNBC (NEW YORK) NBC EAST live stream - TheTVApp thetvapp.to

Television Schedule

Wednesday, Jan. 7 @ 7 p.m. USA Network

• Session 1 | 4:30 p.m. | Championship Pairs Short Program
• Session 2 | 7:20 p.m. | Championship Women's Short Program

Thursday, Jan. 8 @ 7 p.m. | USA Network

• Session 3 | 4 p.m. | Championship Rhythm Dance
• Session 4 | 7:15 p.m. | Championship Men's Short Program

Friday, Jan. 9 @ 7 p.m. | NBC

• Session 5 | 2 p.m. | Championship Pairs Free Skate (Group 1) and Championship Women's Free Skate (Group 1)
• Session 6 | 6:15 p.m.| Championship Pairs Free Skate (Groups 2 and 3) and Championship Women Free's Skate (Groups 2 and 3)

Saturday, Jan. 10 @ 7 p.m. | NBC East

• Session 7 | 2:25 p.m. | Championship Free Dance (Group 1) and Championship Men's Free Skate (Group 1)
• Session 8 | 6 p.m. | Championship Free Dance (Groups 2 and 3) and Championship Men's Free Skate (Groups 2 and 3)

Sunday, Jan. 11 (Making the Team: Presented by Xfinity)

• 1 p.m. | NBC East

From our threads...
If you still have a Japanese VPN, JSports On Demand has live coverage of all events. (I don't know how difficult the process is for registering for JSports on Demand; I haven't tried it before.) If you still have access to a Japanese TV service, the JSports 4 channel will have live coverage of the men's and women's events. Sadly, the pairs and ice dance competitions will only be aired on TV about two weeks after US Nationals ends. The full schedule of coverage may be found here and here.

Also, as I mentioned on post #11 of this thread, you can watch the singles events live if you subscribe to a Japanese TV service and click on the JSports 4 channel.

False Rumors from last year: Unfortunately, the TV APP (which worked fine last year) appears to be georestricted this year. Posters reported that - I’m in Canada and am able to see TheTVApp USA Network live steam app. At least I’ll be able to see some of the pairs and women. It isn’t geoblocked.

 

[dorispulaski]

If you want to see the novice events with the original music, you must watch them live. USFSA removes or changes the original music if they post up after the live event is over

 

[Iskatgal]

Peacock Tiles are up for the practice cam., Junior, and Senior short programs.

 

[labgoat]

Not sure if there will be any videos to post so I am not sure we will need a rewatch grid. If you want it anyway, just let me know and I will post the listing here when I have start orders. Only novices are going to be available on USFS website.

Weirdly you can watch last years Nationals 2025 on USFS site now - really???

2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held Jan. 20-26, 2025, in Wichita, Kansas, at INTRUST Bank Arena. U.S. champions were crowned in the...

www.youtube.com

Watch this space...

U.S. Figure Skating

U.S. Figure Skating is the national governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States.

www.youtube.com

Practice videos will likely be saved here.

 

[CoyoteChris]

If you want to see the novice events with the original music, you must watch them live. USFSA removes or changes the original music if they post up after the live event is over

I vote for the USFS to just keep playing "Titanic" over and over and the heck with music rights.

 

[CoyoteChris]

Not sure if there will be any videos to post so I am not sure we will need a rewatch grid. If you want it anyway, just let me know and I will post the listing here when I have start orders. Only novices are going to be available on USFS website.

Weirdly you can watch last years Nationals 2025 on USFS site now - really???

2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held Jan. 20-26, 2025, in Wichita, Kansas, at INTRUST Bank Arena. U.S. champions were crowned in the...

www.youtube.com

Watch this space...

U.S. Figure Skating

U.S. Figure Skating is the national governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States.

www.youtube.com

Practice videos will likely be saved here.

For the sake of argument, say you were at sea between San Diego and Hawaii....without a VPN and with a tablet. But the ship has Starlink , is registered in the Neatherlands and is owned in Panama. Is there a way to post the last group of ladies? Actually, I now see I will be at my hotel in San Diego till the morning of the 10th and Peacock does work on my tablet. Gotta check out when the Johnny and Tara show is as the cabin room TV has NBC....

 

[CoyoteChris]

For the sake of argument, say you were at sea between San Diego and Hawaii....without a VPN and with a tablet. But the ship has Starlink , is registered in the Neatherlands and is owned in Panama. Is there a way to post the last group of ladies? Actually, I now see I will be at my hotel in San Diego till the morning of the 10th and Peacock does work on my tablet. Gotta check out when the Johnny and Tara show is as the cabin room TV has NBC....

Actually, I can set the DVRs to capture as much of the Johnny and Terror show as I can when I am gone too. The problem is that games of the ball in my market sometimes preempt or delay the J and T show. At least with Four Conts, I can use the VPN on my laptop and watch the ISU channel when I get home. Its a five day sail back from Hawaii to San Diego so the J and T Four conts might be an option on board the ship. (so happy Rinka is skating for another four years...)

 

[CoyoteChris]

Not sure if there will be any videos to post so I am not sure we will need a rewatch grid. If you want it anyway, just let me know and I will post the listing here when I have start orders. Only novices are going to be available on USFS website.

Weirdly you can watch last years Nationals 2025 on USFS site now - really???

2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held Jan. 20-26, 2025, in Wichita, Kansas, at INTRUST Bank Arena. U.S. champions were crowned in the...

www.youtube.com

Watch this space...

U.S. Figure Skating

U.S. Figure Skating is the national governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States.

www.youtube.com

Practice videos will likely be saved here.

This is sooooo funny!!! Due to copyright infringement, etc, they replaced Alysa's FS music with elevator music!

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

 

[CoyoteChris]

I have information on how to access US Nationals if it doesn't get posted in its own thread.
My information is based on what worked last year. I condensed the instructions and added the schedules.

Practice Streaming (last year they were posted to USFS I believe, but no guarantees)
Practices will be live streamed on Peacock. All times Central; subject to change

Tuesday, Jan. 6
Women | 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Men | 1:15-3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 7
Ice Dance | 8-10 a.m.
Men | 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 8
Women | 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 9
Ice Dance | 7:30-8:55 a.m.
Men | 9:25-11:25 a.m.

Novice events will be available to watch on the U.S. Figure Skating YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@USFigureSkating

Novice and Junior Schedule
Sunday, Jan. 4

• Junior and Novice Official Practices

Monday, Jan. 5

• 10 a.m. | Novice Pattern Dance
• 11:20 a.m. | Junior Rhythm Dance
• 1:30 p.m. | Novice Pairs Short Program
• 2:20 p.m. | Junior Pairs Short Program
• 4:25 p.m. | Junior Women's Short Program
• 7:10 p.m. | Junior Men's Short Program

Tuesday, Jan. 6

• 8:30 a.m. | Novice Free Dance
• 9:25 a.m. | Junior Free Dance
• 12:10 p.m. | Novice Pairs Free Skate
• 1:05 p.m. | Junior Pairs Free Skate
• 3:50 p.m. | Junior Women's Free Skate
• 6:50 p.m. | Junior Men's Free Skate

All Junior and Senior Events will be broadcast on Peacock (geoblocked for outside USA)

TheTVApp for USA Network/NBC: This will buffer a lot – so clear your cache
Any streaming TV app that lets you access USA and NBC channels will work for the senior events.

• USA NETWORK live stream - TheTVApp thetvapp.to
• WNBC (NEW YORK) NBC EAST live stream - TheTVApp thetvapp.to

Television Schedule

Wednesday, Jan. 7 @ 7 p.m. USA Network

• Session 1 | 4:30 p.m. | Championship Pairs Short Program
• Session 2 | 7:20 p.m. | Championship Women's Short Program

Thursday, Jan. 8 @ 7 p.m. | USA Network

• Session 3 | 4 p.m. | Championship Rhythm Dance
• Session 4 | 7:15 p.m. | Championship Men's Short Program

Friday, Jan. 9 @ 7 p.m. | NBC East

• Session 3 | 4 p.m. | Championship Rhythm Dance
• Session 4 | 7:15 p.m. | Championship Men's Short Program

Saturday, Jan. 10 @ 7 p.m. | NBC East

• Session 7 | 2:25 p.m. | Championship Free Dance (Group 1) and Championship Men's Free Skate (Group 1)
• Session 8 | 6 p.m. | Championship Free Dance (Groups 2 and 3) and Championship Men's Free Skate (Groups 2 and 3)

Sunday, Jan. 11 (Making the Team: Presented by Xfinity)

• 1 p.m. | NBC East

From our threads...
If you still have a Japanese VPN, JSports On Demand has live coverage of all events. (I don't know how difficult the process is for registering for JSports on Demand; I haven't tried it before.) If you still have access to a Japanese TV service, the JSports 4 channel will have live coverage of the men's and women's events. Sadly, the pairs and ice dance competitions will only be aired on TV about two weeks after US Nationals ends. The full schedule of coverage may be found here and here.

Also, as I mentioned on post #11 of this thread, you can watch the singles events live if you subscribe to a Japanese TV service and click on the JSports 4 channel.

False Rumors from last year: Unfortunately, the TV APP (which worked fine last year) appears to be georestricted this year. Posters reported that - I’m in Canada and am able to see TheTVApp USA Network live steam app. At least I’ll be able to see some of the pairs and women. It isn’t geoblocked.

So, just to be clear, NBC rabbit ears will NOT broadcast the women's free?

 

[SmileHappy34]

I am happy to report thar the peacock tiles of juniors, rinkside, senior dropped. For some reason. I didn't think they would. Usa didn't have peacock listed only nbc and usa. I thought I would need to buy you tube forvu.s. nationals

 

[labgoat]

So, just to be clear, NBC rabbit ears will NOT broadcast the women's free?

The full schedule can be found here

2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships

2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships

usfigureskating.org

women free added above - never type when you are tired...

 

[skatingfan4ever]

Do you think all the Peacock tiles will have separate commentary than T&J? Or will it be like SA this year and we're stuck. The pattern on the website seems to be [Segment] Group 1, then Group 2 has another discipline with it. I don't know if we'll be forced to switch commentary partway through (or worse, if T&J will do all of it). Do we know if Peacock will have separate commentary at all? I know JLB is doing practices again, per Olivia's YouTube channel. It might be a click-and-see situation.

 

[Iskatgal]

Peacock, just listed a Tile for Olympic Team Names Show. January 11th 1:00pm. Around 2 hours of coverage.

 

[PaulE]

Do you think all the Peacock tiles will have separate commentary than T&J? Or will it be like SA this year and we're stuck. The pattern on the website seems to be [Segment] Group 1, then Group 2 has another discipline with it. I don't know if we'll be forced to switch commentary partway through (or worse, if T&J will do all of it). Do we know if Peacock will have separate commentary at all? I know JLB is doing practices again, per Olivia's YouTube channel. It might be a click-and-see situation.

I was just sending some of my relatives information on how to watch Nats on TV and Peacock. Here are the sad thoughts I had after looking at several schedules.

U.S. Figure Skating Nationals start next week on 6 January in St. Louis. A printed list of the events can be found here: https://stlsports.org/special-event/2026-us-figure-skating-championships/schedule/. And the colored schedule of practices and competitions for seniors is on the second page at this link: https://usfigureskating.org/documents/2025/12/4/2026USFSChampsMatrixDraft1_11-23-25.pdf. There is also information on how to watch at this U.S. Figure Skating webpage:https://usfigureskating.org/sports/2025/11/3/2026-prevagen-us-figure-skating-championships.aspx. Note that the times are probably in Central Time.

The tiles for Peacock are up and can be found with a search on “Figure Skating”. It may take a little time to find the senior events since there are some very old events still there along with tiles for the junior oomps. There are some practice cams also listed. I’m not sure exactly how NBC and Peacock will be covering this. It may be something of a mish-mash. I notice that on 7 January there is a tile for the Pairs Short Program at 2;30 PST (2 hours) and a tile tor Pairs, Women’s Short Program at 5:00 PST (3 hours). I also notice that, on the USFSA how to watch page linked above, that there will be cable TV coverage of something at 7:00 CST. So my guess is that Pairs may be shown complete on Peacock with some announcer that I don’t know. But then, a little bit of Pairs along with the women will be shown both on USA Channel and Peacock with the Tara and Johnny show and all the TV commercial interruptions. So when anything is being shown on the USA or NBC broadcast channels, we will probably see the identical stream on Peacock.

 

[skatingguy]

Anyone else having difficulty with The TV App? I got it working on my work computer with Windows 10 Pro, but on my personal laptop with Windows 11 the videos are not loading.

 

[saine]

Anyone else having difficulty with The TV App? I got it working on my work computer with Windows 10 Pro, but on my personal laptop with Windows 11 the videos are not loading.

I had issues with it on Windows 11 using Edge just now. I tried tvpass.org with the same browser, that one worked better for me.

I'll add the links for the channels.

WNBC - https://tvpass.org/channel/nbc-wnbc-new-york-ny
USA Network - https://tvpass.org/channel/usa-network-east-feed

 

[yuumagical]

I have information on how to access US Nationals if it doesn't get posted in its own thread.
My information is based on what worked last year. I condensed the instructions and added the schedules.

From our threads...
If you still have a Japanese VPN, JSports On Demand has live coverage of all events. (I don't know how difficult the process is for registering for JSports on Demand; I haven't tried it before.) If you still have access to a Japanese TV service, the JSports 4 channel will have live coverage of the men's and women's events. Sadly, the pairs and ice dance competitions will only be aired on TV about two weeks after US Nationals ends. The full schedule of coverage may be found here and here.

Also, as I mentioned on post #11 of this thread, you can watch the singles events live if you subscribe to a Japanese TV service and click on the JSports 4 channel.

The information I posted last year no longer applies when watching via JSports! Thankfully all segments will be broadcast live on both JSports 4 and JSports On Demand! There will also be same-day tape-delayed broadcasts on JSports 4. According to the search results on JSports' website:

Type of broadcast on JSports 4	Event	Start Date (in Japan)	Start time (JST)	End Date (in Japan)	End Time (JST)
Live	Pairs short program	1/8/25	7:30 am	1/8/25	10:00 am
Live	Women's short program	1/8/25	10:25 am	1/8/25	1:35 pm
Tape-delayed	Pairs short program	1/8/25	5:00 pm	1/8/25	7:00 pm
Tape-delayed	Women's short program	1/8/25	7:00 pm	1/8/25	9:40 pm
Live	Ice dance rhythm dance	1/9/25	7:00 am	1/9/25	9:50 am
Live	Men's short program	1/9/25	10:15 am	1/9/25	1:25 pm
Tape-delayed	Ice dance rhythm dance	1/9/25	5:00 pm	1/9/25	7:15 pm
Tape-delayed	Men's short program	1/9/25	7:15 pm	1/9/25	10:00 pm
Live	Pairs and women's free skate	1/10/25	7:30 am	1/10/25	2:00 pm
Tape-delayed	Pairs and women's free skate	1/10/25	6:00 pm	1/11/25	12:00 am

Live	Ice dance and men's free skate	1/11/25	7:10 am	1/11/25	2:15 pm
Tape-delayed	Ice dance and men's free skate	1/11/25	6:00 pm	1/12/25	12:30 am
Live	Exhibition gala	1/12/25	4:00 am	1/12/25	6:30 am
Tape-delayed	Exhibition gala	1/12/25	5:00 pm	1/12/25	7:30 pm

So you can use a Japanese IPTV service (Nozomi, Himawari, etc.) to watch US Nationals on JSports 4 or use a VPN to watch through JSports on Demand (or possibly TVer)!

(I highly recommend this method! No inane Johnny and Tara commentary!!!)

 

[msteach3]

I’m not seeing a tile on Peacock for Men’s Free. Is it only on NBC possibly?

 

[dorispulaski]

The group 1 tile men's Free is up on Peacock. I don't see the later show.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

Do you think all the Peacock tiles will have separate commentary than T&J? Or will it be like SA this year and we're stuck. The pattern on the website seems to be [Segment] Group 1, then Group 2 has another discipline with it. I don't know if we'll be forced to switch commentary partway through (or worse, if T&J will do all of it). Do we know if Peacock will have separate commentary at all? I know JLB is doing practices again, per Olivia's YouTube channel. It might be a click-and-see situation.

I'm fearful that these numbskulls at NBC are planning the same mishmash they enacted at SA with 50 million ads interspersed with horrible T,T&J plus GabPap commentary, and skaters perfs and kiss 'n cry segments cut out. We all need to message Peacock and U.S. fed in advance expressing our dismay and disgust!!!

We want the option of complete U.S. Nats coverage with ad-free streams! I will forego any commentary, tho' I'd love if they'd allow Jean-Luc to do full U.S. Nats world-feed streaming commentary!