NEW YORK, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that it will be the exclusive national radio
broadcaster for the U.S. Open Championship, and will offer
listeners nationwide expanded coverage of this year's event, taking
place at Chambers Bay in University
Place, Washington from June
18th through the 21st.
SiriusXM's programming will feature more than 35 hours of live
hole-by-hole coverage – more than has ever been aired before –
across all four days of championship play, including a possible
Monday playoff. SiriusXM's Brian
Katrek will anchor the play-by-play broadcast with
former PGA Tour pro Mark
Carnevale serving as the analyst in the booth. A
team of roving reporters, featuring veteran broadcasters and Tour
pros - Fred Albers,
John Maginnes,
Dennis Paulson and Bill
Rosinksi - will provide live commentary from around the
course.
Joining SiriusXM's broadcast team for the first time will be
former PGA Tour pro Mark Lye,
who will serve as an analyst on SiriusXM's pre-round show on
Thursday and Friday alongside Taylor
Zarzour and Carl
Paulson.
SiriusXM's coverage will begin each day at 12:00 pm ET/9:00 am
PT with live pre-round coverage from Chambers Bay, leading
into live championship coverage through the end of each day's
play. The on-course coverage will be followed each day by a
post-round show, hosted by Ron Green
Jr., Paulson and Zarzour, that will air until
midnight ET/9:00 pm PT.
All programming will be available to subscribers nationwide on
satellite radios (Sirius channel 208, XM channel 93), on the
SiriusXM app and online at SiriusXM.com.
"We're very excited to give our listeners more live U.S. Open
coverage than ever before," said Scott
Greenstein, SiriusXM's President and Chief Content
Officer. "Chambers Bay is a venue unlike anything played
before at a U.S. Open and will be an exciting stage this year for
golf's rising young talent, veterans and all other Open qualifiers.
Our hole-by-hole coverage and extensive lineup of talk
programming will allow fans to experience this event as though they
are there in person on the banks of Puget Sound."
The U.S. Open Championship is conducted annually by the United
States Golf Association. Currently in its 115th year, the
championship provides one of the most comprehensive tests of golf,
and is the most democratic among the most pre-eminent golf events
as evidenced by its global qualification process. In 2015, the USGA
accepted more than 9,800 entries from professional and amateur
golfers to compete for the national title.
In addition to live Championship coverage, SiriusXM will provide
fans with daily U.S. Open talk and analysis from Chambers Bay
throughout the week, and will feature shows hosted by some of the
game's prominent personalities.
The week's schedule includes exclusive shows hosted by 1988 U.S.
open runner-up Nick Faldo and
World Golf Hall of Famer Ben
Crenshaw, as well as distinguished instructors
Hank Haney, David Leadbetter, Jim McLean, Larry
Rinker and Claude Harmon
III.
SiriusXM's programming lineup also features shows hosted by
Chris DiMarco,
Natalie Gulbis,
Peter Oosterhuis,
Matt Adams, Debbie Doniger, Fred Albers, Dennis Paulson, John Feinstein, Ben Shear, Jeff
Warne and others. Visit
www.SiriusXM.com/SiriusXMPGATOURRadio for a daily schedule.
SiriusXM airs live coverage of all four major championships –
The Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship – as
well as most of the PGA Tour events throughout the season,
including the PLAYERS Championship and all FedExCup Playoff
tournaments.
In 2013, the USGA and FOX Sports announced a comprehensive
multi-media agreement that makes FOX Sports and FOX Sports 1 the
principal domestic media partner of the USGA. Within the agreement,
FOX Sports holds the exclusive television broadcast rights for the
presentation of all USGA championship events, highlighted by the
U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open and U.S. Senior Open Championships.
Additionally, FOX Sports serves as the home for the USGA's national
amateur championships and other live content.
About SiriusXM
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radio broadcaster measured by revenue and has more than 27.7
million subscribers. SiriusXM creates and broadcasts
commercial-free music; premier sports talk and live events; comedy;
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SiriusXM holds a minority interest in SiriusXM Canada which has
more than 2 million subscribers. SiriusXM is also a leading
provider of connected vehicles services to major automakers, giving
customers access to a suite of safety, security, and convenience
services including automatic crash notification, stolen vehicle
recovery assistance, enhanced roadside assistance and turn-by-turn
navigation.
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