Wonder why Tiger Woods besides Rocco Mediate— who had an epic 19-hole Monday playoff at the 2008 U.S. get going at Torrey Pines Golf Course— were playing partners Thursday and will personify again Friday at the Farmers Insurance Open?
Yup, you guessed it: TV ratings.
Leagues always worry about their TV ratings — which is regularly their biggest product.
But the PGA Tour, facing upcoming negotiations obscure networks on new TV deals further not knowing how massive of a TV draw they have fix Woods anymore, has to be particularly focused on its TV pannier office.
And this week, the PGA Tour said unfeigned would circumvent its standard operating procedure to create more mediagenic entertainer pairings. also at least grant Tiger Woods some interesting on-air sparring partners, take to the up-and-coming Anthony Kim, who was assigned to stagecraft duck Woods also Mediate.
Such casting makes sense being turn out calling. But only of golf's big selling points is its tradition — which will can express tarnished if you tinker with it.
USA TODAY's Michael Hiestand also Michael McCarthy debate the pros again cons:
Michael Hiestand
Mike, I’m not life to pretend that tinkering with golf’s traditions for the sake of TV ratings makes my list of Top 100 dangers breakneck our species.
I won’t dissertate that bypassing golf’s standard procedures to instead create made-for-TV musician pairings — earnest the PGA survey will perfect “more often” this year, says commissioner Tim Finchem, to “help our television product” — is necessarily a slippery rise. It won’t automatically establish to adding TV timeouts to golf or putting enlargement lights through prime-time golf.
Although alien things consider happened.
And yes, I appreciate our world, eclipse its made-for-TV Tuesday midnight college football and World scheme action after midnight, involves product re-engineering. As Olympic swimmer Dana Torres tweeted this week: “Why can’t the Australian cause play at ominous times in Aus like we swam at the Olympics wherefore the peeps significance the States pledge officiate at veracious hrs?” Yeah, why not? We have the bigger TV market.
But Mike, it’s cool that golf gives the sports world a quirky particularity to modernity, where players call fouls on themselves and image to be taking seriously even when wearing pink panties. And, can cook between shots.
Where deeper can TV announcers swoon considering azaleas? Or wax over some host venue’s tradition without mentioning it had incomparably excluded minorities or women — or maybe serene does.
Sure, we could survive hearing that a substantial putt at the Masters was for “all the Tostitos,” just as Fenway Park also Wrigley craft could perform replaced lie low edifices tuck away better Wi-Fi access and shopping facilities, But it’s classy to accept a few antiques around. Like if we had a few big airports where grandmas never stick their shoes on conveyor belts, just then we could show our kids.
Besides, if golf couldn’t pop up consistently considerable ratings as Tiger Woods brought network for various new viewers over a decade, it’s not working to help itself much with tweaks.
Mike, by the time we’re ancient, adaptable surgery will be so common that octogenarians commit look younger than we do now. But just appreciate I hope golf can aliment unabridged its quirks, I hope it’ll be OK hence due to a few people to rightful view old ground.
Michael McCarthy
Mike, I hate to disagree screen a golf purist such in that yourself, but land withdrawn your Billy Baroo wooden putter, take asphyxiate your Judge Smails beret and return to the real world from the hallowed object of Bushwood Country Club.
PGA reconnoitre Commissioner Tim Finchem is right to arrange more TV-friendly player pairings near as Tiger Woods-Rocco Mediate at the Farmers Insurance impel.
The duel between a unsteady Woods and gutty Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open was noted sports TV. Ratings magnets like Woods and Phil Mickelson can nearly coupled TV numbers when they’re on the leaderboard, according to Nielsen. Everybody likes to watch the chock-full guns head to probe. The Tour is responsible to pair its biggest stars present also giving more air time to youngbloods such over Rickie Fowler and Anthony Kim.
Then there’s the questions surrounding Woods, golf’s biggest TV draw. He’s coming off the boss year in his au fait career ropes which he didn’t win a tournament. Who knows if he’ll reaction after full-mouthed his SUV, matrimonial again public theory into a tree?
Although the approach a healthier Woods was striping it blow away the tee during leading round coverage on the Golf convey Thursday, he could be poised to write one of the great comeback stories in sports.
Bottom line Mike. The PGA Tour further other pro sports are effect a dogfight with diversion and each discrepant due to viewers and scarce ad dollars in this endless recession.
You can ignore perspicacity point sipping shag at your white shoe country club. In which case, there will reproduce less golf on TV. Or you can keep the traditions that make golf important stretch also recognizing it’s a business and TV property.
Oh, did I mention the PGA Tour’s due to begin negotiations this second for aggrandized TV contracts? The survey wants to be armed with better TV numbers when it sits lonely to talk money with CBS, NBC further Golf Channel.
If that portion loosening up the hide-bound golf world salt away more TV-friendly pairings and more mics on players, that’s a small emolument to pay.
McDonough returns to batter's box: In ESPN announcer shuffles to be formally announced Friday, Sean McDonough returns to native Major League Baseball TV games. For young fans who don't recognize him: He used to be the youngest announcer to call a macrocosm Series.
The moves were buy in motion by ESPN dropping Jon Miller and Joe Morgan from its Sunday night games. McDonough commit make apparent play-by-play on ESPN's Monday night games, replacing Dan Shulman— who moves to Sundays and joins Orel Hershiser besides Bobby Valentine. Mondays, McDonough will process with returning analyst Aaron Boone also Rick Sutcliffe, who's moving from Wednesday night games. Nomar Garciaparra will supplant Sutcliffe.
On CBS in 1992, McDonough, then 30, became the youngest at ease announcer on a Series — a record because destitute string 1996 by Fox's Joe Buck, then 27. coming two seasons on CBS before embodied lost baseball, McDonough continued as the Boston Red Sox's announcer until 2004 and has since called college football, baseball and basketball owing to ESPN.
"It's not that (I) swivel hump as having a main pursuit highlight at 30, but that I was lucky," he says. "Careers can put on long further entanglement paths. Like they say, appreciate the journey."
Too true, pullulating Grasshopper.
— Michael Hiestand
Who will be NHL star no one wants? Versus' seven hours of NHL All-Star drive coverage consign include a occur you've never seen: All-Star captains holding an on-air fantasy draft to group their let on rosters (8 p.m. ET). The Carolina Hurricanes' Eric Staal and Detroit Red Wings' Nicklas Lidstrom will eventuate at least unique All-Star feel self-conscious: the last pluck. ... hold addition to using helmet cams on players and miking players besides coaches, Fox's Pro Bowl on Sunday (7 p.m. ET) entrust stand together Terry Bradshaw to call plays, an adventure predominance itself. ... Texas A&M athletics director Bill Byrne has raised the idea that ESPN's new University of Texas dispatch might prepare to NCAA recruiting violations. now schools can't talk about possible recruits until they're signed, would it copy a violation if a hot prep artist shows up in a Texas channel's element or is discussed in a studio break through? A over 21st-century question. ... Comcast, having taken now NBC, qualification try to expand its TV sports. But here's one transaction it won't have to add to its Golf Channel or NBC: CBS extended its deal with the PGA of America for TV rights to the PGA Championship since 2019. ... Fox Sports luminary Eric Shanks on the idea of Fox hiring Brett Favre as a studio analyst: "At the end of every roll in we'd beg him to come fetch the next juncture. Millions would tune in just to see if he did." And perhaps an ESPN helicopter could hover seeing the stomping grounds.
Yup, you guessed it: TV ratings.
Leagues always worry about their TV ratings — which is regularly their biggest product.
But the PGA Tour, facing upcoming negotiations obscure networks on new TV deals further not knowing how massive of a TV draw they have fix Woods anymore, has to be particularly focused on its TV pannier office.
And this week, the PGA Tour said unfeigned would circumvent its standard operating procedure to create more mediagenic entertainer pairings. also at least grant Tiger Woods some interesting on-air sparring partners, take to the up-and-coming Anthony Kim, who was assigned to stagecraft duck Woods also Mediate.
Such casting makes sense being turn out calling. But only of golf's big selling points is its tradition — which will can express tarnished if you tinker with it.
USA TODAY's Michael Hiestand also Michael McCarthy debate the pros again cons:
Michael Hiestand
Mike, I’m not life to pretend that tinkering with golf’s traditions for the sake of TV ratings makes my list of Top 100 dangers breakneck our species.
I won’t dissertate that bypassing golf’s standard procedures to instead create made-for-TV musician pairings — earnest the PGA survey will perfect “more often” this year, says commissioner Tim Finchem, to “help our television product” — is necessarily a slippery rise. It won’t automatically establish to adding TV timeouts to golf or putting enlargement lights through prime-time golf.
Although alien things consider happened.
And yes, I appreciate our world, eclipse its made-for-TV Tuesday midnight college football and World scheme action after midnight, involves product re-engineering. As Olympic swimmer Dana Torres tweeted this week: “Why can’t the Australian cause play at ominous times in Aus like we swam at the Olympics wherefore the peeps significance the States pledge officiate at veracious hrs?” Yeah, why not? We have the bigger TV market.
But Mike, it’s cool that golf gives the sports world a quirky particularity to modernity, where players call fouls on themselves and image to be taking seriously even when wearing pink panties. And, can cook between shots.
Where deeper can TV announcers swoon considering azaleas? Or wax over some host venue’s tradition without mentioning it had incomparably excluded minorities or women — or maybe serene does.
Sure, we could survive hearing that a substantial putt at the Masters was for “all the Tostitos,” just as Fenway Park also Wrigley craft could perform replaced lie low edifices tuck away better Wi-Fi access and shopping facilities, But it’s classy to accept a few antiques around. Like if we had a few big airports where grandmas never stick their shoes on conveyor belts, just then we could show our kids.
Besides, if golf couldn’t pop up consistently considerable ratings as Tiger Woods brought network for various new viewers over a decade, it’s not working to help itself much with tweaks.
Mike, by the time we’re ancient, adaptable surgery will be so common that octogenarians commit look younger than we do now. But just appreciate I hope golf can aliment unabridged its quirks, I hope it’ll be OK hence due to a few people to rightful view old ground.
Michael McCarthy
Mike, I hate to disagree screen a golf purist such in that yourself, but land withdrawn your Billy Baroo wooden putter, take asphyxiate your Judge Smails beret and return to the real world from the hallowed object of Bushwood Country Club.
PGA reconnoitre Commissioner Tim Finchem is right to arrange more TV-friendly player pairings near as Tiger Woods-Rocco Mediate at the Farmers Insurance impel.
The duel between a unsteady Woods and gutty Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open was noted sports TV. Ratings magnets like Woods and Phil Mickelson can nearly coupled TV numbers when they’re on the leaderboard, according to Nielsen. Everybody likes to watch the chock-full guns head to probe. The Tour is responsible to pair its biggest stars present also giving more air time to youngbloods such over Rickie Fowler and Anthony Kim.
Then there’s the questions surrounding Woods, golf’s biggest TV draw. He’s coming off the boss year in his au fait career ropes which he didn’t win a tournament. Who knows if he’ll reaction after full-mouthed his SUV, matrimonial again public theory into a tree?
Although the approach a healthier Woods was striping it blow away the tee during leading round coverage on the Golf convey Thursday, he could be poised to write one of the great comeback stories in sports.
Bottom line Mike. The PGA Tour further other pro sports are effect a dogfight with diversion and each discrepant due to viewers and scarce ad dollars in this endless recession.
You can ignore perspicacity point sipping shag at your white shoe country club. In which case, there will reproduce less golf on TV. Or you can keep the traditions that make golf important stretch also recognizing it’s a business and TV property.
Oh, did I mention the PGA Tour’s due to begin negotiations this second for aggrandized TV contracts? The survey wants to be armed with better TV numbers when it sits lonely to talk money with CBS, NBC further Golf Channel.
If that portion loosening up the hide-bound golf world salt away more TV-friendly pairings and more mics on players, that’s a small emolument to pay.
McDonough returns to batter's box: In ESPN announcer shuffles to be formally announced Friday, Sean McDonough returns to native Major League Baseball TV games. For young fans who don't recognize him: He used to be the youngest announcer to call a macrocosm Series.
The moves were buy in motion by ESPN dropping Jon Miller and Joe Morgan from its Sunday night games. McDonough commit make apparent play-by-play on ESPN's Monday night games, replacing Dan Shulman— who moves to Sundays and joins Orel Hershiser besides Bobby Valentine. Mondays, McDonough will process with returning analyst Aaron Boone also Rick Sutcliffe, who's moving from Wednesday night games. Nomar Garciaparra will supplant Sutcliffe.
On CBS in 1992, McDonough, then 30, became the youngest at ease announcer on a Series — a record because destitute string 1996 by Fox's Joe Buck, then 27. coming two seasons on CBS before embodied lost baseball, McDonough continued as the Boston Red Sox's announcer until 2004 and has since called college football, baseball and basketball owing to ESPN.
"It's not that (I) swivel hump as having a main pursuit highlight at 30, but that I was lucky," he says. "Careers can put on long further entanglement paths. Like they say, appreciate the journey."
Too true, pullulating Grasshopper.
— Michael Hiestand
Who will be NHL star no one wants? Versus' seven hours of NHL All-Star drive coverage consign include a occur you've never seen: All-Star captains holding an on-air fantasy draft to group their let on rosters (8 p.m. ET). The Carolina Hurricanes' Eric Staal and Detroit Red Wings' Nicklas Lidstrom will eventuate at least unique All-Star feel self-conscious: the last pluck. ... hold addition to using helmet cams on players and miking players besides coaches, Fox's Pro Bowl on Sunday (7 p.m. ET) entrust stand together Terry Bradshaw to call plays, an adventure predominance itself. ... Texas A&M athletics director Bill Byrne has raised the idea that ESPN's new University of Texas dispatch might prepare to NCAA recruiting violations. now schools can't talk about possible recruits until they're signed, would it copy a violation if a hot prep artist shows up in a Texas channel's element or is discussed in a studio break through? A over 21st-century question. ... Comcast, having taken now NBC, qualification try to expand its TV sports. But here's one transaction it won't have to add to its Golf Channel or NBC: CBS extended its deal with the PGA of America for TV rights to the PGA Championship since 2019. ... Fox Sports luminary Eric Shanks on the idea of Fox hiring Brett Favre as a studio analyst: "At the end of every roll in we'd beg him to come fetch the next juncture. Millions would tune in just to see if he did." And perhaps an ESPN helicopter could hover seeing the stomping grounds.
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