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The PGA Tour and ESPN have reached an agreement for direct-to-consumer platform ESPN+ to stream live, featured-hole coverage from 12 Tour events this season
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The PGA Tour and social-media platform Twitter have teamed up to create an innovative live content fan-engagement initiative to mark the golf circuit's return to competition this week
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A number of competitors at this week's Charles Schwab Challenge will be microphoned in order to improve the broadcast experience of the first event back on the PGA Tour in the wake of the global Covid-19…
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Rory McIlroy will headline a made-for-TV golf event on May 17 that will attempt to raise $4m for Covid-19 relief efforts
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The PGA Tour has finalised nine-year domestic media rights deals with incumbent rights-holders CBS, the commercial network, and the Comcast-owned NBC Sports Group, while agreeing a landmark streaming deal…
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US sports broadcaster ESPN is close to agreeing a streaming rights deal with golf’s PGA Tour, according to the Associated Press.
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The PGA Tour has announced an expansive agreement with Facebook to distribute daily highlight packages globally on Facebook Watch in 2020, starting at this week’s Farmers Insurance Open.
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The PGA Tour has extended its partnership with Xumo TV, which includes highlights, player interviews, tournament previews, and Featured Holes coverage from PGA Tour Live.
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South Korean broadcaster JTBC Golf has struck a sub-licensing deal with rights-holder Discovery to provide multi-platform coverage of the PGA Tour
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In a first for golf, the PGA Tour will livestream every shot from every player over all four rounds from the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, on March 12-15, 2020.
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A new 12-part series starring Tiger Woods has launched on GolfTV, the OTT streaming service owned by US media company Discovery
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Golf’s PGA Tour has expanded the content available through its OTT platform by adding early-round featured groups coverage from seven events between September and December.
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US media company Discovery has acquired the Golf Digest media brand and expanded its relationship with the PGA Tour, furthering its presence in the sport, it said on Monday
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US-media giant Discovery will broadcast a series of head-to-head matches involving Tiger Woods on its GolfTV OTT streaming platform, in an extension of the parties’ existing content partnership.
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Action Images, the sports media agency owned by news agency Reuters, has agreed content partnerships with golf’s PGA Tour, the Professional Squash Association and the Lagardère Sports agency.
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UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports’ new rights deal for the US PGA Championship is for the five-year period from 2019 to 2023, SportBusiness Media understands. This marks a rebuilding of the long-term partnership between rights-holder and broadcaster that ended in 2016 when Sky refused to meet rights distributor IMG’s valuation of the property.
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OSN’s decision to close most of its sports channels will leave a vacuum in the Middle East and North Africa for rights-holders that is unlikely to be filled for some time, experts have told SportBusiness M…
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Golf’s PGA Tour has renewed and expanded its partnership with US streaming television company Xumo. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed, but it follows an initial agreement signed in March 2018.