Departing GC Exec: Golf Needs To Spice Things Up

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No wonder Comcast had to move Page Thompson back to headquarters so that Dick Ebersol could take over Golf Channel when the Comcast/NBC merger is completed: he had some common sense ideas for livening up tournament golf. Naturally, none of these will fly with the executive ranks who experience ED drug symptoms when players take their hats off and shake hands at the end of a round.
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Clarifying Your Ryder Cup Viewing Times And Options**

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There's way too much confusion about when you can watch the Ryder Cup, so here goes with my best shot based on press releases and confirming emails (really bodes well for the viewing public, don't you think?). I've also included Golf Channel's key shows.

Tuesday

Golf Channel 12-3 ET (News Conferences)


Wednesday

Golf Channel 12-3 p.m ET (News Conferences)

Thursday

6-8 p.m ET (Pre-game)

Friday

ESPN  LIVE! 2:30 a.m. ET sign on (11:30 Pacific Thursday).

golf.com/PGA.com  
2:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET live coverage of holes 2, 6, 12 and 17

Golf Channel Postgame show  1-2 p.m. and 6-8 p.m ET

Saturday

NBC: 8 am-6 pm ET, 5 am-3 pm PT (tape)

golf.com/PGA.com  
2:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET live coverage of holes 2, 6, 12 and 17

Golf Channel Postgame show  6-8 p.m ET

Sunday

golf.com/PGA.com Sunday
 6:30 a.m. to end of matches, live coverage of holes 2, 6, 12 and 17

NBC   7 am - 1pm ET, 4 am - 10 am PT (live)

Golf Channel Postgame show  1-2 p.m. and 6-8 p.m ET

“Tackling everything from Tiger Woods to Brett Favre, the show’s format will be unlike anything we’ve done before and we are very excited to be launching it in 2011.”

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Yesterday we learned from Tom Cunneff's interview with Golf Channel suit Keith Allo that they were developing a morning show. And voila! Today a light-on-detail press release lands announcing "Dawn Patrol," which, incidentally was the name of the scripted drama I was developing centering around a group of renegade cart driving residents of the Villages who flesh out subversives in the flush retirement community. It was sort of Road Warrior meets A-Team in the vein of Splash. 
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