Golfweek interview with Golf Channel president, 3 parts

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http://golfweek.com/news/2015/feb/11/golf-channel-mike-mccauley-president-interview-one/

http://golfweek.com/news/2015/feb/11/golf-channel-mike-mccauley-president-interview-two/

http://golfweek.com/news/2015/feb/11/golf-channel-mike-mccauley-president-interview-3/

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McCarley: We have a tremendous amount of momentum as a business. If you go back 20 years, how far the channel has come is unbelievable. When it first launched, it was in 10,000 homes. By the end of the first year, they changed the business model halfway through and by the end of that year the channel was in 1.4 million homes. Now we’re in more than 120 million homes in 80 different countries.

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I think Protracer has been terrific, and we’re going to have Protracer at nearly 40 events this year – not only using it in tournament coverage but in our news coverage. One of the most interesting news shows we had (in 2014) was one of the pregame shows from Doral when Tiger was on the range and we had Protracer, and you were seeing the ball go left and right, and really didn’t know what was going on with this guy. Later that day, he had to get out of the event because of his back. There’s something weirdly mesmerizing about watching the path of the ball flight, especially when the players are on the range and are working on things. And there will be more things like that.

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McCarley: We’ll do a couple more documentaries. We’re working on one that is more of a competition series that will involve elements of golf, elements of “The Amazing Race,” elements of speed and decision-making and teamwork and fitness that I think will be interesting and create a discussion within the industry about pace of play and fitness and exercise that are positives and negatives about the game that we should discuss.

More things like Protracer? Do tell...