Thank goodness that Augusta National's TV contract with CBS mandates that commercials be limited to two minutes per half hour.
It's been that way since 1966.
Thank goodness that Augusta National's TV contract with CBS mandates that commercials be limited to two minutes per half hour.
It's been that way since 1966.
Frank Hannigan is always worth a read.
https://www.geoffshackelford.com/hom...orts-deal.html
Interesting read. I recently re-read 'Open' by John Feinstein. I find the background to the USGA bringing the US Open to Bethpage Black very interesting
From the tone of Frank Hannigan's piece it seems that the USGA is now being run by corporate types rather than people passionate about golf.
Golf is, in part, a game; but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday and a hope for tomorrow. - New York Tribune, 1916.
Luckily either the USGA or Fox concluded that Fox’s coverage of US Opens were soo bad that the contract needed to be cancelled and taken up by a network who knew what they were doing.
Closer to home, the shambolic administration at Golf Australia is more of a concern with them overspending their budget by millions multiple years in a row, making mindless decisions like the changes to the Australian Amateur and the One Golf concept taking the funding from some state associations has been a disaster with most of the state associations involved wanting it cancelled.
Other than their first year at Chambers the fox coverage was the best thing to happen to televised golf in living memory. We should be grateful to them for forcing more innovation through in a few years than the the other networks combined have in decades. NBC and CBS have zero interest in presenting a quality golf product to the viewer and only exist to push as many ads as possible. The week to week PGA tour is excruciatingly unwatchable, as was the this years US Open.
Fox elected to give up the rights and keep paying the lions share of the contract just to get out of it so they could focus back on showing NFL last year when the COVID schedule reshuffle had it clashing. With Fox out they win because they lose less money, the USGA wins because they keep their money and NBC wins because they get the broadcast back at a cheaper rate. The only loser is all of us, the viewers, because the viewing product is now back to being shite.
Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become a Masters champion..... It looks like a mirac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
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