Post by breakmydreams on Feb 23, 2010 13:25:11 GMT -5
Even without Tiger, golf can thrive on TV
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer Frazier Moore, Ap Television Writer – Tue Feb 23, 6:34 am ET
NEW YORK – Television viewership will fall without Tiger Woods, but the networks that air the sport and the PGA Tour itself can handle the setback.
That's the word from several media analysts and the president of CBS Sports, which now is facing the possibility of covering the Masters Tournament just weeks from now with golf's biggest star conspicuously absent.
"We're all looking forward to him coming back, but until then we're doing perfectly fine," CBS Sports president Sean McManus said.
When Woods made his globally televised apology last Friday for serial infidelity, he said that "I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be."
Read more here.
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer Frazier Moore, Ap Television Writer – Tue Feb 23, 6:34 am ET
NEW YORK – Television viewership will fall without Tiger Woods, but the networks that air the sport and the PGA Tour itself can handle the setback.
That's the word from several media analysts and the president of CBS Sports, which now is facing the possibility of covering the Masters Tournament just weeks from now with golf's biggest star conspicuously absent.
"We're all looking forward to him coming back, but until then we're doing perfectly fine," CBS Sports president Sean McManus said.
When Woods made his globally televised apology last Friday for serial infidelity, he said that "I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be."
Read more here.