Youngstown featured in nationally televised ice skating show at Chevy Centre

YOUNGSTOWN — The city will be in the national spotlight on Christmas Day when an ice skating show at Chevrolet Centre will be nationally televised.

The Oct. 18 show will be taped and then broadcast on NBC from 3 to 5 p.m. Dec. 25. It will feature a host of former world and Olympic figure skating champions, performing to live music provided by the Cleveland Pops Orchestra with guest vocalist Peter Cetera, the former lead singer with the band Chicago.

The skaters will include Sasha Cohen, Brian Boitano, Todd Eldredge, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, Yuka Sato, Michael Weiss, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Caryn Kadavy and Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.

The show — titled “Hot Ice, Cool Sounds” — will include a 60-second segment on Youngstown State University, which is one of the sponsors. Short clips featuring shots of Youngstown and Mayor Jay Williams will be interspersed throughout the broadcast.

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