Report in the Telegraph that says that Aunty is cutting costs and won’t be televising Augusta… no surprise at all really. Can anyone tell me what time the highlights were shown on BBC last year?
Not having Sky, yes I did.Does anyone even watch that channel anymore? ?
Report in the Telegraph that says that Aunty is cutting costs and won’t be televising Augusta… no surprise at all really. Can anyone tell me what time the highlights were shown on BBC last year?
Even if I didn’t subscribe to sky sports, I still wouldn’t watch that channel
Highlights were on after the live show so about midnight but then repeated the next morning
It would be a shame as at least it gives people that don’t buy Sky some golf to watch
Those who don’t have Sky enjoyed plenty of live golf, ad-free, with some of the best players in the world courtesy of LIV last year ?
I know their coverage has been reducing over the years, and despite not wanting to, I personally have switched to watching it on sky/now tv in the last few years. However, it’s still sad to see it go completely. Like many of us, watching the masters on bbc as a kid is largely what got me into golf in the first place, being allowed to stay up late on the Sunday night, taking the 14 inch portable colour tv to my bedroom to watch it in bed, the volume so low I was barely able to hear Peter Alliss’s wonderful voice!
Any other channels looking to pick up the highlights package. Will be an interesting test if the BBC do not show highlights. People have been calling for golf on free to air TV for ages now and if no channel picks up the Masters highlights, it would be another major indicator that none of the free to air channels have any interest in broadcasting the sport.
You have to start somewhere. Match of the Day is just highlights and most free to air TV companies would give their left arm for that. Cricket, rugby and other sports have a highlights package of free to air. Say what you like but if nobody picks up the rights to even a highlights package for a major golfing tournament, the indicator is clearly that free to air TV has no interest in showing golf. Wonder if the highlights for the Open are going to be at risk as well going forward.
You have to start somewhere. Match of the Day is just highlights and most free to air TV companies would give their left arm for that. Cricket, rugby and other sports have a highlights package of free to air. Say what you like but if nobody picks up the rights to even a highlights package for a major golfing tournament, the indicator is clearly that free to air TV has no interest in showing golf. Wonder if the highlights for the Open are going to be at risk as well going forward.
The Masters was never on the list. The Open is group B (always was since being introduced), with the Ryder Cup added later, which only means rights must include fta secondary (i.e. highlights) coverage. Even The Open was never Group A (alongside the Olympics, FIFA WC, FAC final, Wimbledon finals, Grand National, etc.) and restricted to fta for live broadcast.The Masters , The Open all used to be in the protected sports that had to be on Free to air - but the golf bodies wanted a slice of the money pie from subscription services so they asked the government to remove the events so that they could then go to the highest bidder