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Article: Golf Channel sinks PGA Tour rights.(Professional Golfers' Association Championship)
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- January 16, 2006
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The Golf Channel president David Manougian called last week's rights deal that made the Comcast Corp.-owned network the exclusive cable home of the PGA Tour "an eagle."
Under a 15-year pact that takes effect next year, Golf --now in some 70 million households--will become the PGA's biggest TV partner, with 15 full four-round events. Golf also will provide first- and second-round PGA Tour coverage on Thursday and Fridays for 33 other events, setting up weekend action on CBS, which has expanded from 16 tourneys to 19, and NBC, which has doubled its annual count to 10.
The broadcast-network deals cover the 2007-12 seasons.
"This is the next step ...