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The Golf Channel is an American cable television network devoted (obviously) to the game of golf. It was launched on January 17, 1995. The idea of a 24-hour-a-day golf network came from the mind of media entrepreneur Joseph E. Gibbs of Birmingham, Alabama, who first got the idea for the channel in 1991. Gibbs felt there was enough interest in golf among the public to support such a network, and so he had a Gallup Poll done among the public to see if his instincts were right. They were, and Gibbs and legendary golfer Arnold Palmer managed to secure $80 million, which helped the two found The Golf Channel. The first live tournament the channel ever televised was the Dubai Desert Classic, held from January 19 to 22, 1995. Coaxial Cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed...
Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ...
January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Birmingham is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County. ...
1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A Gallup Poll is an opinion poll frequently used by the mass media for representing public opinion. ...
Arnold Palmer helped to popularize televised golf. ...
The Dubai Desert Classic is an annual golf tourament which is usually played in March. ...
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
The Golf Channel features programming of all sorts. Live golf is the norm, as the network features coverage of the PGA TOUR, PGA European Tour, LPGA Tour, Champions Tour, Nationwide Tour, Canadian Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia, and also of USGA and PGA of America tournaments. There is also a nightly news show, Golf Central, and a variant titled College Central, devoted to college golf. There are highlight shows of past tournaments, and even a reality television competition show, The Big Break, whose premise is to help aspiring professionals gain exemptions into PGA TOUR and LPGA events. In 2005, The Golf Channel helped set up a special matchplay event called Big Stakes Golf, in which teams of two paid a $100,000 entry fee to play in a special tournament where the winning team split a $3,000,000 first-place prize, the largest in golf history. In the end, mini-tour professionals Garth Mulroy and David Ping won the grand prize. The PGA Tour is an organization which is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. It operates the USAs main professional golf tours. ...
The PGA European Tour is a top-level professional mens golf tour. ...
The LPGA is the Ladies Professional Golf Association. ...
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA TOUR, hosts 30 events annually in the United States and Canada for golfers 50 and older. ...
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the PGA TOUR, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that levels Qualifying School (the main tours qualifying tournament, popularly referred to as Q-School) or who have done so but then failed to...
The Canadian Professional Golf Tour is a mens professional golf tour. ...
The PGA Tour of Australasia is a prominent golf tour for men. ...
The United States Golf Association (USGA) is the United States national association of golf courses, clubs and facilities and the governing body of golf for the U.S. and Mexico. ...
Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States and claims to be the largest working sports organization in the world with more than 27,000 members. ...
Reality television is a genre of television programming which generally is unscripted, documenting actual events over fiction, and featuring ordinary people over professional actors. ...
The Big Break is The Golf Channels reality television program. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
Match play is a scoring system for golf (compare to stroke play). ...
The Golf Channel is available in the United States, Canada, and Asia through cable, satellite, and wireless transmissions. There is also a version of the network for Great Britain, although that version shows most of the same programming that the American version does. World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ...
A cable is two or more wires bound together which may be bare or covered or insulated. ...
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Wireless was an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph. ...
The American version's studio is located in Orlando, Florida. Skyline of Orlando at night, from across Lake Eola The city of Orlando is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. ...
The Golf Channel programs
- A Golf Channel Profile
- Bank of America Leaderboard Report
- Champions Tour Learning Center
- College Central
- Drive, Chip & Putt
- Golf Central
- Golf Channel Classics
- Golf Channel Workshop
- Golf Fitness Academy
- Golf Talk
- Golf With Style!
- IBM's Playing Lessons with the Pros
- Inside the PGA TOUR
- Natural Golf Makeover Challenge
- Peter Jacobsen Plugged In
- Quest for the Card
- Shell's Wonderful World of Golf
- Sprint Pre & Post Game
- The Big Break
- The Golf Channel Academy
- The Golf Channel Academy Live
- The Grey Goose 19th Hole
- What's In The Bag?
- Yoga for Golfers
The Golf Channel on-air talent Donna Caponi (b January 19 1945 Detroit, Michigan) is an American professional golfer. ...
Vince Cellini (born in 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a broadcaster for The Golf Channel. ...
Peter Jacobsen (born March 4, 1954 in Portland, Oregon) is a professional golfer. ...
Kraig Kann (born on May 3, 1966 in LaGrange, Illinois) is The Golf Channels top on-air personality, a position hes held at the cable television network since its launch in 1995. ...
Nancy Lopez (born January 6, 1957 in Torrance, California; raised in Roswell, New Mexico) is one of the most famous women in the history of the sport of golf. ...
Dottie Pepper (b. ...
Stephanie Sparks (born on July 19, 1973 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an on-air personality at The Golf Channel and a former golfer, whose best years in golf came as an amateur. ...
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