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Article: Golf channel host out of a job.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 23, 2002
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Can this marriage be saved?
It is a question many avid viewers of the Golf Channel are already asking as word gets out that Peter Kessler, easily the cable channel's No. 1 personality and a man known for his smooth interviewing style and encyclopedic knowledge of the game, has departed.
Technically, Kessler, 49, has not been fired. One of the few things the two sides agree on is that he is gone, at least for now.
"This has been coming for a while," Kessler _ who has not hosted his prime-time programs, Golf Talk Live, Viewers Forum, and Golf Academy Live, for five weeks _ said last week from his home in Orlando, Fla. "In some ways, I was prepared ...