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[Company Town] Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said the rights fees were going to go up in the new pacts. He added that the partnership would significantly increase the amount of charity work the PGA does.
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[Kansas City Star: Television] NBC and CBS renew PGA Tour deals - KansasCity.com: Also part of the agreement is the Golf Channel, a cable network owned by NBCUniversal, which is a unit of Comcast Corp.</p><p> Terms of the contracts were not disclosed, but PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said the rights fees were going to rise in the new pacts.
[TheWrap.com - Entertainment Industry Analysis, Breaking Hollywood News] PGA Tour Rights Secured Over Next Decade | TheWrap TV: The PGA Tour's television rights have been secured through 2021, with CBS expected to air an average of 20 tournaments a year and NBC televising an average of 10 events per year, the tour announced Thursday.
[Sports Media News] PGA TOUR Broadcast Rights Secured over Next Decade: - PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem, CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus and NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus announced today the completion of unprecedented broadcast network television agreements that will secure the PGA TOURs television rights for the next 10 years. With the current deals running through 2012, the new nine-year agreements with CBS and NBC will extend from 2013 through the 2021 season, coinciding with the remaining years of the PGA TOURs exclusive 15-year cable television agreement with Golf Channel that began in 2007.
[edzardt.com] CBS, NBC extend PGA Tour television rights | edzardt.com: “In our business plan, we did not assume any golfer was going to be as dominant as Tiger had been in the past,” CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said in a telephone interview.
[The Olympian Online -- Golf] PGA Tour gets 10-year television contract - Golf - The Olympian ...: The tour agreed to a nine-year deal with CBS Sports and NBC Sports. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem did not disclose financial terms, although he said there was an increase in the rights fee and players would see modest increases in prize money.
[Sports Video Group] CBS, NBC Seal Up PGA Tour Rights Through 2021 : Sports Video ...: Golf Channel will continue to open the PGA Tour season with four-round coverage of the first three tournaments, provide exclusive early-round coverage of the tournaments televised by CBS and NBC, and provide four-round coverage of alternate events and the Fall Series. In addition, Golf Channel will continue to broadcast prime time replays of its early round coverage, and will have rights to expand its exclusive lead-in coverage and replays for every event televised by CBS and NBC.
[The Ultimate Golf Blog] PGA Tour, NBC, CBS Ink Nine Year Deal | The Ultimate Golf Blog: But Woods, who was given the credit for being the reason that the tour signed a record TV deal in 2001 and was blamed for network reluctance to measurably improve that agreement in 2007 when the current four-year deal was completed, was not a major factor in these negotiations, McManus said.
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