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The Golf Channel

is in the Media Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$75.0M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

GOLF CHANNEL was launched on January 17, 1995, and was the first fully digital production facility in the United States. GOLF CHANNEL recruited an experienced management team, a lineup of well-known talent and developed a varied programming schedule. In its first year, GOLF CHANNEL televised 23 domestic tournaments and 41 European and Australian events. Since then, the network has been the gold standard for other niche cable start-ups and has become golf's home on television. GOLF CHANNEL is available in more than 110 million homes worldwide through cable, satellite and wireless companies. In 1996, GolfChannel.com was launched, an online community for golfers, designed to provide a deeper connection not only between its programs, users and advertisers, but also between golf fans. GolfChannel.com, Golf's Home online, is the destination for the latest news, scores and deep library of video instruction, it is also a gathering place for golf fans to read, rant and rave on subjects from equipment reviews to golf course critiques. GolfChannel.com is a top golf Web site in time spent by visitors. In 2007, GOLF CHANNEL embarked on its unprecedented 15-year agreement as the exclusive cable television home for the PGA TOUR. ...

Number of Employees 374
Contact Information

7580 Commerce Center Dr

Orlando, Florida 32819

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1 407 355 4653

NAICS Code Television Broadcasting: 515120

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  • Ashworth gets big break from Golf Channel show

    - 2008-09-15

    Ashworth Inc., a local golf apparel maker, has hit a hole-in-one with product placement during The Golf Channel's latest season of "Big Break X: Michigan," which debuts Oct. 7. The show's eight two-person teams have been given Ashworth products from its fall 2008 line. The show pairs the...

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  • Choi hoping familiar spot breeds success

    - 2008-07-03

    BETHESDA, Md. -- K.J. Choi hopes there is no better cure to a spiraling season than playing in a tournament he won just a year ago. After missing cuts in three of his last four starts, Choi's Tuesday and Wednesday practice rounds at the AT&T National...

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  • Golf: Golfweek editor fired over noose cover

    - 2008-01-19

    AAP Sports News Australia 01-19-2008 Golf: Golfweek editor fired over noose cover By Mark Lamport-Stokes PALM DESERT, California, Jan 18 Reuters - Golfweek magazine has fired its editor Dave Seanor for the controversial decision to...

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  • Trahan a marvel on greens

    - 2008-01-18

    PALM DESERT -- One-putts by D.J. Trahan, one-liners by George Lopez, a one-track mind by people in charge of The Golf Channel. And thus did the second day of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic drift into history. D.J., not to be confused with J.J. (that's Henry) or...

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  • The Hope once gave golf hope, now shunned

    - 2008-01-17

    PALM DESERT -- Dare we call it the Bob Hopeless? Should we point out a tournament which once had Arnie and Jack in a playoff now barely can get any of the top names to compete? Do you think anyone is going to be watching the final...

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