More AT&T Golf Failure: Sunday’s Half-Hour TV Blackout

In this day and age of always-on coverage it seems incredulous that the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am has such a backwards coverage plan. In addition to our already-noted lack of any online streaming coverage, the TV broadcast on Sunday started with live coverage on the Golf Channel — and then just as things started heating up, there was a half-hour blackout. Unbelieveable.

Though I understand that programming schedules need to be set well in advance of the actual tournament, Sunday’s by-chance heavyweight pairing of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson — simply two of the best golfers, ever — should have prompted either the Golf Channel (owned by NBC) or CBS to pre-empt whatever was going on between 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time and Noon to show Phil and Tiger trying for eagles on No. 6.

It’s a minor blip that will be forgotten but perhaps a good lesson for other events down the line — don’t leave yourself the victim of your own schedules or planning. A good online streaming strategy would go a long way to keeping the number of fans who are going to be lost for a half-hour today.

Comments

  1. The delay is now 40 minutes and counting, because CBS is staying with a Big Ten hoops game that is going past the scheduled golf start. What a massive fail for golf fans today. A match for the ages on one of the world’s great courses… and we are watching Michigan and Illinois trade timeouts.

  2. Argh now 17 minutes overage… Unbelievable

  3. Here’s Stephanie Wie with a link to how many people the Golf Channel and CBS p’od…

    http://www.weiunderpar.com/post/numbers-dont-lie-tiger-and-phil-move-the-needle

  4. That was pretty crazy. Well, don’t forget what is up next – the Mayakoba Golf Classic on the beautiful Riviera Maya in Mexico will be airing Feb 22-26. See Greg Norman, Johnson Wagner and Nick Price among others. Check out the website for more information, details and news. http://bit.ly/ze2c0t

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