NEW YORK, July 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will
offer subscribers extensive coverage of The 146th Open
from Royal Birkdale in Southport,
England, featuring 48 total hours of live on-course
play-by-play plus daily talk programming hosted by the 1989
Champion Golfer of the Year Mark Calcavecchia and other major
champions.
Live championship play-by-play, featuring IMG's @TheOpen Radio
broadcasts, will air across all four days of play, July 20-23, on the SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio
channel, which is available to subscribers on satellite radios
(Sirius channel 208, XM channel 92) and on the SiriusXM app.
Tournament broadcasts will begin on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio on
Thursday and Friday at 2:00 am ET,
and on Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 am
ET, and will continue through the conclusion of each day's
play.
During the week of The Open, SiriusXM's PGA TOUR Radio
programming includes exclusive shows hosted by Mark Calcavecchia, who won The Open in 1989
at Royal Troon, as well as fellow major champions Larry Mize, Craig
Stadler and Dave
Stockton. SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio programming is
also available to subscribers on SiriusXM On Demand after it debuts
on air.
Tonight at 10:00 pm ET, SiriusXM's
Martin Davis will host a two-hour
special on the history of The Open, golf's original
championship. Davis interviews several Champion Golfers who
raised the famed Claret Jug at Royal Birkdale - including
Tom Watson, Lee Trevino and Mark
O'Meara - as well as Bobby Jones
IV, whose grandfather, the great Bobby Jones, won The Open on three
occasions.
"With 48 hours of live championship play-by-play, our terrific
lineup of show hosts, and a special on the history of The Open
featuring some of its greatest champions, SiriusXM listeners get an
exceptional and comprehensive broadcast experience throughout Open
week," said Scott Greenstein,
SiriusXM's President and Chief Content Officer.
SiriusXM's Taylor Zarzour and
former Tour pro Carl Paulson will
host a live two-hour post-round broadcast on each tournament
day.
SiriusXM's programming lineup also features shows hosted by top
instructors Hank Haney, Jim McLean, and Golf Channel's Michael Breed, distinguished PGA professional
Bob Ford, as well as Lou Holtz, John
Feinstein, Debbie Doniger,
Matt Adams, Fred Albers, David
Armitage, Michael Collins,
Brian Crowell, Frank Darby, Kyle
Gentry, Trey Jones,
Conrad Ray, Jeff Warne and others. Visit
www.SiriusXM.com/SiriusXMPGATOURRadio for a daily
schedule.
NBC Sports Group owns the rights to The Open broadcasts in the
U.S. NBC Sports will provide exclusive television and
streaming coverage of The Open from Royal Birkdale on NBC and Golf
Channel.
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SiriusXM Canada which has approximately 2.8 million subscribers.
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