The Masters TV coverage blows.
- Thread starter MadJack
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What really blows is I lost two hundred betting on it.Anyone that would bet the winner of a golf game needs to lose two hundred dollars.i guess over a 30 years I have made 30 or 40 golf bets and I won only two.Freddie couples and Tiger woods. You would think I had learned by now.
I'll check with you next year and see who you like. LOL
I'll check with you next year and see who you like. LOL
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What does this have to do with anything? Simply put: The Masters TV coverage doesn?t start until 3 p.m. because Augusta National is actively limiting its supply, and in doing so, is sending demand for its product through the roof.
You can?t play the course. You can?t buy Masters merchandise through its website. Landing tickets is next to impossible. Sponsors can?t buy their way in. The most golf fans can get is a handful of precious hours on television.
It?s a model based on scarcity, and in the precious few moments where Augusta National does lift the curtain and offer fans a look in, people flock to it as a result.
People don?t want to go to the Masters one day. They dream of it. They don?t hope to play the course, they would give anything for it. They don?t flip-on the Masters TV coverage for background noise, they camp out in front of it.
It?s not like the Super Bowl, which the NFL uses to to run-up the margins as high as they can. Every year, Augusta National leaves hundreds of millions of dollars on the table entirely by choice. It?s all about creating exclusivity ? a quality that is, more than anything else, Augusta National?s brand.
That, reduced to its simplest form, is why the Masters doesn?t start until 3 p.m.
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/04/why-does-masters-tv-coverage-start-3-pm-cbs-espn-explains-chart
You can?t play the course. You can?t buy Masters merchandise through its website. Landing tickets is next to impossible. Sponsors can?t buy their way in. The most golf fans can get is a handful of precious hours on television.
It?s a model based on scarcity, and in the precious few moments where Augusta National does lift the curtain and offer fans a look in, people flock to it as a result.
People don?t want to go to the Masters one day. They dream of it. They don?t hope to play the course, they would give anything for it. They don?t flip-on the Masters TV coverage for background noise, they camp out in front of it.
It?s not like the Super Bowl, which the NFL uses to to run-up the margins as high as they can. Every year, Augusta National leaves hundreds of millions of dollars on the table entirely by choice. It?s all about creating exclusivity ? a quality that is, more than anything else, Augusta National?s brand.
That, reduced to its simplest form, is why the Masters doesn?t start until 3 p.m.
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/04/why-does-masters-tv-coverage-start-3-pm-cbs-espn-explains-chart
No. The whole idea is that they could be magnanimous in their gesture, and they continue to treat the "common filth" watching the tidbits they toss us, like the caddies at Bushwood.
"You had you're 15 minutes, now fuck off."
:shrug:
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Steve Petrella @steve_petrella
Updated at 7:17 a.m. ET
http://www.sportingnews.com/us/golf...n-augusta-national/1d8nf6mho0kyp17bvho9i8mes7
If you're trying to watch the Masters on TV on Thursday or Friday morning, don't bother. The Masters isn't broadcast on TV until 3 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.
Why? Because Augusta officials say so, and no one can stop them. There's really no reason beyond that.
Explaining the Masters TV schedule
The famous Augusta National is the most recognizable brand in golf, as courses go. And it's willing to give up millions of dollars in revenue to protect that brand ? this aura of exclusivity it's so carefully crafted over the last 80 years.
Augusta believes less is more, and over-saturation of TV coverage will hurt its brand and mystique. As a result, it leaves more than $100 million on the table and generates a revenue of only $30 million, none of which comes from TV.
CBS has aired the Masters for the last 60-plus years, operating on a one-year contract with Augusta for each of them, according to this piece from Golf Digest. Just since the turn of the century has it shown Sunday's final round in its entirety, and not until 1995 did the first two rounds get any TV coverage. Imagine that ? the most popular event in golf, by a mile, got no TV coverage for half its rounds as recently as 20 years ago. The Masters' final round in 2015 had 14 million viewers, well clear of the U.S. Open, which came in at 11.2 million and had considerably more drama.
It's incredible, as Golf Digest notes, that as sports become more and more branded and commercialized, the Masters is going in the opposite direction, or at least keeping its status quo. We're just a few years away from American sports leagues putting ads on their jerseys, and yet the only thing you can associate with Augusta is a green and yellow cut-out of the United States with a pin stuck in northeast Georgia, grass groomed perfectly as spring hits and that soft, soothing piano riff. It's pure, and it's not going to chance.
Augusta can and has done whatever it wants, like with its long-time exclusion of women and far less egregious choosing of first-round pairings and tee times without any checks of balances from the PGA.
We all want the Masters on TV from sunrise until sunset. CBS and ESPN would happily do that, if they could. But we're not even close to getting there. You can watch limited Masters coverage online on its official website starting at 8 a.m. ET during the first two rounds.
Masters TV schedule for Round 1
On TV
3-7:30 p.m.: Live first round - ESPN
8-11 p.m.: Replay of first round - ESPN
On Masters.com
9:15 a.m.-finish: Featured groups stream
10:45 a.m.-6 p.m.: Amen Corner
11:45 a.m.-7 p.m.: Nos. 15 and 16
Live Masters leaderboard
Follow the entire tournament with our live Masters leaderboard and get live updates and highlights at our Masters tracker.
Updated at 7:17 a.m. ET
http://www.sportingnews.com/us/golf...n-augusta-national/1d8nf6mho0kyp17bvho9i8mes7
If you're trying to watch the Masters on TV on Thursday or Friday morning, don't bother. The Masters isn't broadcast on TV until 3 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.
Why? Because Augusta officials say so, and no one can stop them. There's really no reason beyond that.
Explaining the Masters TV schedule
The famous Augusta National is the most recognizable brand in golf, as courses go. And it's willing to give up millions of dollars in revenue to protect that brand ? this aura of exclusivity it's so carefully crafted over the last 80 years.
Augusta believes less is more, and over-saturation of TV coverage will hurt its brand and mystique. As a result, it leaves more than $100 million on the table and generates a revenue of only $30 million, none of which comes from TV.
CBS has aired the Masters for the last 60-plus years, operating on a one-year contract with Augusta for each of them, according to this piece from Golf Digest. Just since the turn of the century has it shown Sunday's final round in its entirety, and not until 1995 did the first two rounds get any TV coverage. Imagine that ? the most popular event in golf, by a mile, got no TV coverage for half its rounds as recently as 20 years ago. The Masters' final round in 2015 had 14 million viewers, well clear of the U.S. Open, which came in at 11.2 million and had considerably more drama.
It's incredible, as Golf Digest notes, that as sports become more and more branded and commercialized, the Masters is going in the opposite direction, or at least keeping its status quo. We're just a few years away from American sports leagues putting ads on their jerseys, and yet the only thing you can associate with Augusta is a green and yellow cut-out of the United States with a pin stuck in northeast Georgia, grass groomed perfectly as spring hits and that soft, soothing piano riff. It's pure, and it's not going to chance.
Augusta can and has done whatever it wants, like with its long-time exclusion of women and far less egregious choosing of first-round pairings and tee times without any checks of balances from the PGA.
We all want the Masters on TV from sunrise until sunset. CBS and ESPN would happily do that, if they could. But we're not even close to getting there. You can watch limited Masters coverage online on its official website starting at 8 a.m. ET during the first two rounds.
Masters TV schedule for Round 1
On TV
3-7:30 p.m.: Live first round - ESPN
8-11 p.m.: Replay of first round - ESPN
On Masters.com
9:15 a.m.-finish: Featured groups stream
10:45 a.m.-6 p.m.: Amen Corner
11:45 a.m.-7 p.m.: Nos. 15 and 16
Live Masters leaderboard
Follow the entire tournament with our live Masters leaderboard and get live updates and highlights at our Masters tracker.
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Tiger was solid today...
3 putts from nasty good.
Rory McIlroy saw every square inch of Augusta in Round 2
maybe if he was to swing a little harder.
takes a lotta guts to line up to watch these guys Tee off as bad as some miss the fairway
shot close to the Tee box hits you in the temple and you are :nono:
3 putts from nasty good.
Rory McIlroy saw every square inch of Augusta in Round 2
maybe if he was to swing a little harder.
takes a lotta guts to line up to watch these guys Tee off as bad as some miss the fairway
shot close to the Tee box hits you in the temple and you are :nono:
I DO ENJOY WATCHING GOLF WITHOUT ANY COMMERCIALS
I SWEAR IF JASON DAY PLAYED AT MY PUBLIC COURSE AND HE KEPT BENDING OVER WITH BACK PAIN AND SLOWING DOWN OUR FOURSOME HE MIGHT FIND HIMSELF WITH MORE THAN A SORE BACK.HE MUST BE TOUGH TO PLAY WITH REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS PASSING OUT ON THE COURSE AND FALLING DOWN FOR A YOUNG GUY HE HAS A LOT OF HEALTH ISSUES
THE ONLY THING THAT CAN RUIN THIS YEARS MASTERS IS THE WEATHER IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN TODAY AND SEVERE STORM TOMORROW
I SWEAR IF JASON DAY PLAYED AT MY PUBLIC COURSE AND HE KEPT BENDING OVER WITH BACK PAIN AND SLOWING DOWN OUR FOURSOME HE MIGHT FIND HIMSELF WITH MORE THAN A SORE BACK.HE MUST BE TOUGH TO PLAY WITH REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS PASSING OUT ON THE COURSE AND FALLING DOWN FOR A YOUNG GUY HE HAS A LOT OF HEALTH ISSUES
THE ONLY THING THAT CAN RUIN THIS YEARS MASTERS IS THE WEATHER IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN TODAY AND SEVERE STORM TOMORROW
ITS NOT THE ROIDS I SWEAR ITS THE MOCK TEE SHIRTS THEY LOOK SO COMFORTABLE I AM SURPRISED MORE GUYS DONT WEAR THEM.IF I WAS IN SHAPE I WOULD WEAR ONE ITS LIKE PLAYING GOLF IN A TEE SHIRT
