Carnevale covered the PGA Tour on Sirius/XM radio as well as PGA Tour Live on ESPN+.
Mark Carnevale, who won the 1992 Chattanooga Classic and earned PGA Tour Rookie of the Year honors that same year, died suddenly on Monday, according to the Tour. He was 64.
Carnevale won just the one tournament but in his career he appeared in 212 PGA Tour tournaments and made another 66 starts on the Korn Ferry Tour.
In 2007, he transitioned to broadcasting, joining Sirius/XM radio coverage of PGA Tour events. He also covered some tournaments for PGA Tour Live on ESPN+.
Carnevale’s last event was the Genesis Scottish Open two weeks ago. He was scheduled to work this week’s 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.
It was in the 1991 Q school where Carnevale reignited his playing career, rejoining the tour at age 32. In 1994, he fell short of a second win at the Byron Nelson in Irving, Texas, as he was among the five runnersup in a six-man playoff where Neal Lancaster prevailed.
Mark Carnevale in action during the 1998 Greater Milwaukee Open at the Brown Deer Park Golf Course in Milwaukee. (Getty Images)
“Mark was a beloved part of the Tour family for a long time,” said PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan. “He was a member of that elite club, a PGA Tour winner, and then he held numerous roles within the industry, most recently as a significant voice in PGA Tour Radio’s coverage. Mark knew the game and did a terrific job of conveying insights from his unique point of view – and with an engaging wit and sense of humor – to fans from countless Tour events through the years. We will miss Mark and send our condolences to his loved ones.”
Carnevale’s dad, Ben, was the men’s basketball coach at North Carolina, where he led the Tar Heels to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1946.
Carnevale played college golf at James Madison. He worked at a brokerage firm upon graduation before returning to golf.
For you live streamers and cord-cutters out there, your viewing options are being altered just a tad.
The FedEx Cup Fall is a unique one-off of seven tournaments, as the PGA Tour transitions from the wrap-around schedule to a return to a calendar-based format, with the 2024 campaign starting in January.
Of the seven events, four of them will be staged in the U.S.
That means for you live streamers and cord-cutters out there, your viewing options are being altered just a tad, as the streaming coverage of PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will only be on Thursdays and Fridays.
ESPN+ is the exclusive home of PGA Tour Live, and Front Office Sports reports that it’s the most watched content on the streaming platform. But while ESPN+ generally has its four-channel experiences for all four days of PGA Tour stops, it’ll only have the first and second rounds of those U.S.-based tournaments.
According to ESPN: “Coverage of the four fall events on PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will include one feed showcasing complete rounds of two Featured Groups in both the morning and afternoon waves on Thursday and Friday.”
Dates
Tournament
Course
Coverage start time
Sept. 14-15
Fortinet Championship
Silverado Resort
Napa, Calif.
10 a.m. ET
Oct. 5-6
Sanderson Farms Championship
The Country Club of Jackson
Jackson, Miss.
8:30 a.m. ET
Oct. 12-13
Shriners Children’s Open
TPC Summerlin
Las Vegas
9:30 a.m. ET
Nov. 16-17
RSM Classic
Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
St. Simons Island, Ga.
9:30 a.m. ET
The Zozo Championship in Japan, the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship will not have PGA Tour Live on ESPN+.
All seven of the fall events will have four rounds of live coverage of Golf Channel, which will be simulcast on NBC’s streaming service Peacock.
When Diamond Sports Group, known for its Bally regional sports networks, failed to make its most recent payment to the San Diego Padres this week, a snowball started rolling downhill.
The broadcast rights for San Diego’s games reverted back to the Padres, Major League Baseball took over productions of Padres games and the loud bell that some heard ringing was the death knell of the regional sports network as we have come to know them.
While Padres games are still available through cable or other outlets, it is well known that MLB would like to put all 30 of its teams on some kind of umbrella streaming service. If orange is the new black and 50 is the new 40, streaming services would like to be the new cable. The live sports that once came into your living room for free through the air and later poured out of your television screen with a monthly cable bill are slowly working their way onto streaming platforms for subscription fees.
While an all-encompassing streaming network for MLB might be a long road, such a move would be just another step in the trend of major sports starting to hide some of its products behind the paywalls of streaming services. Cable’s great advantage over streaming has been live sports, with even some teams having their own network. That advantage might be slipping away.
Impossible, you say? Remember that events that seemed like they would stay on the networks forever — think about events like the Rose Bowl — moved to cable decades ago. Could such events find their way to streaming services as cable continues to slide and sports look for new or additional revenue sources?
Golf Today’s studio in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo: Golf Channel/NBC Sports)
Consider for a moment:
Apple TV has an exclusive Major League Baseball doubleheader on Friday nights, available only if you pay the monthly subscription fee. That means if, say, the Los Angeles Dodgers are selected for the Apple TV game, that game will not be available that night on SportsNet L.A., the Dodgers’ cable home.
The NFL, the king of all sports in the country, announced that one of its wildcard playoffs games this coming season will be broadcast exclusively on a streaming service. That game, on Jan. 13, 2024, will be on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service. So will another wildcard game that day, but at least the second game will also be seen on NBC.
The NFL has already moved its Thursday night games to Amazon Prime. The league‘s Sunday Ticket is moving to YouTube this season, giving more fans greater access to out-of-market games.
Golf fans already know that early-round play on weekdays and early morning play on weekends are both available on ESPN+ as well as Peacock.
Golf fans also know the best way to watch the Masters is Masters.com, which includes the regular CBS broadcast as well as focus on certain holes or players and featured groups. Some Masters coverage is also on ESPN+.
None of this means the Super Bowl will be an exclusive property of Paramount+ or Peacock anytime soon – at least for now – but it does all point toward a world where team and league control of broadcasts on streaming services is potentially the next evolution for live sports. The NFL, as usual, seems to be ahead of the game.
You can imagine a world where the PGA Tour has its own streaming service, providing on-demand coverage of its events from the regular tour to PGA Tour Champions to the Korn Ferry Tour.
Maybe that would be the way for the LPGA to promote its tour perhaps better than it is treated by other broadcast outlets.
While cord-cutting is eating away at cable’s relevance, streaming services have their own issues. Some, like CNN+, shut down almost before they debuted. All of them cost money, of course, and some offer far more than a viewer actually wants, much like cable. Disney Plus, for instance, can offer Hulu and ESPN+.
Do Mickey Mouse and the PGA Tour attract the same audiences? Chase all the live sports heading to streaming, and suddenly the costs of multiple streaming services begin to approach the cost of cable.
One thing seems certain. More and more live sports will be heading to streaming services in the coming months and years, and complaints from fans about having to subscribe to watch will follow. If you don’t think some major events will head to streaming, just remember when every college bowl game was on a major network, and how all those games moved to cable. The Rose Bowl on Peacock can’t be too many years away.
Larry Bohannan is the golf writer for The Desert Sun, part of the USA Today Network. You can contact him at (760) 778-4633 or at larry.bohannan@desertsun.com.
What is the massive building going up next to PGA Tour’s Global Headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach?
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The PGA Tour’s Global Headquarters is getting a neighbor.
Thousands of golf fans coming and going to the public parking for the Players Championship this week will drive past it on Country Road 210 and wonder what is that new building under construction going to be? No, the framework of the structure going up adjacent to 1 PGA Tour Blvd. isn’t the future home of LIV Golf, as many locals have joked. Rather, when completed it will house PGA Tour Studios, a 165,000-square-foot building that is expected to be move-in ready sometime during the first quarter of 2025.
It will be a massive upgrade for the Tour’s television arm, which has been based at World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida, since 1998 in a 35,000-square-foot facility that was state-of-the-art at the time.
The new facility, which broke ground in July, will feature seven studios initially (with space to grow to 12), eight control rooms and voice-over rooms, and four edit finishing rooms and audio post rooms (see comparison below). It will house 150-200 employees and include over 290 workstations, 29 offices, 13 meeting spaces from 30-plus seats to “huddle rooms,” 48 high-top seats, an 80-seat cafe plus outdoor seating and even five pantries.
An aerial view of the PGA Tour’s Global Headquarters and the new PGA Tour Studios, which will open in early 2025 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (Photo: Gilbane Building Company)
The Tour officially moved into its 187,000-square-foot headquarters in January 2021 during the height of COVID-19. That structure, which reportedly cost $65 million, replaced 17 buildings and brought the majority of the company’s nearly 1,000 employees under a single roof for the first time.
The Tour’s TV arm, PGA Tour Entertainment, remained disconnected, about a 35-minute drive away. Last year, the Tour announced that the World Golf Hall of Fame would relocate from the World Golf Village to Pinehurst, N.C., at the end of 2023, and the exodus continues with the television unit set to pack up and move to new digs too.
PGA Tour studios vs. PGate
As part of the latest deal with its broadcast partners, the Tour is now coordinating the onsite facilities and below-the-line personnel, including mobile units, announce towers, and technical facilities. Several Golf Channel staffers already work out of the Global HQ. Additionally, the new facilities will allow for more custom content to be created, for instance, into international broadcasts. As it takes a more hands-on role in the look, feel and production of its TV product, the Tour determined it makes sense for PGA Tour Entertainment to be a stone’s throw from the main office. In 2025, that vision will become a reality.
ESPN+ gained exclusive rights to PGA Tour Live at the start of 2022. Less than nine months in, the price is going up.
ESPN’s streaming service ESPN+ gained exclusive rights to PGA Tour Live at the start of 2022.
Less than nine months in, the price is going up.
According to reports by Front Office Sports and Variety, the monthly subscription price of ESPN+ will go up $3 in late August.
The current price of ESPN+ is $6.99 and will jump to $9.99 per month in about five weeks. That’s an increase of 43 percent.
The Tour’s streaming move from NBC to ESPN is part of the PGA Tour’s nine-year domestic media rights portfolio that was announced in March 2020 and began with the Sentry Tournament of Champions in January.
BREAKING: ESPN+ is raising its subscription price from $6.99 per month to $9.99 per month.
Variety reports that the annual subscription price will go from $69.99 to $99.99.
For those consumers who are getting ESPN+ as part of a bundle along with Disney+ and Hulu, that monthly subscription rate of $14 will stay the same.
The move from NBC to ESPN+ increased the total number of hours of golf streaming, as more than 3,200 hours of new live streaming was added, bringing the total to more than 4,300 exclusive hours of action throughout the year.
The Final Round of the RBC Heritage will take place on Sunday from beautiful Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
The Final Round of the RBC Heritage will take place on Sunday from beautiful Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
On Sunday, we should expect a fantastic finish with Harold Varner III still sitting in the top spot at 11-under with Jordan Spieth tailing him with 8-under, as well as a host of golfers looking to make a move.
Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action, including Featured Groups on PGA TOUR LIVE and four live streams with expanded coverage on ESPN+.
RBC Heritage, Final Round
When: Sunday, April 17
Time: 8:30 a.m. ET
TV Channel: Golf Channel on fuboTV, starting at 1 p.m. ET
ESPN+ will have exclusive coverage in the mornings and will also have coverage in the afternoons. You can follow all the action here with expanded and extended coverage for PGA Tour Live. Click for more details.
Featured Groups & Holes: 9:15 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET on ESPN+
PGA Tour Odds and Betting Lines
PGA Tour odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds were last updated Sunday at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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How to watch, listen and stream all the action from Bay Hill.
A loaded field of the PGA Tour’s best are bound for Bay Hill Club and Lodge as the Florida Swing continues.
World No. 1 Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and a host of stars highlight the field for the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational that won’t include defending champion Bryson DeChambeau, who withdrew due to injury after recently picking the Tour over a Saudi Arabia-backed rival league..
Here’s what you need to know to watch and listen to all the action from the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational. All times Eastern.
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The Farmers Insurance Open will take place on Wednesday afternoon from beautiful Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.
The Farmers Insurance Open will take place on Wednesday afternoon from beautiful Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California. This week’s PGA Tour event will begin on Wednesday and finish on Saturday.
Again, we will see some of the best in the game including Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, and Jordan Spieth just to name a few.
Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action today, including Featured Groups for PGA Tour Live as well as extended coverage on ESPN+.
Farmers Insurance Open
When: Wednesday, January 26 – Saturday, January 29
ESPN+ will have exclusive coverage in the mornings and will also have coverage in the afternoons. You can follow all the action here with expanded and extended coverage for PGA Tour Live. Click for more detail
Wednesday, January 26:
Marquee: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
Thursday, January 27:
Marquee: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
Friday, January 28:
Marquee: 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
Saturday, January 29:
Marquee: 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
PGA Tour Odds and Betting Lines
PGA Tour odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds last updated Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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The PGA Tour will hold its second event of 2022 with the Sony Open in Hawaii from Waialae Country Club from East Honolulu, Hawaii.
The PGA Tour will hold its second event of 2022 with the Sony Open in Hawaii from Waialae Country Club from East Honolulu, Hawaii.
This will be the first full-field event of the year including Cameron Smith, who won the Sentry Tournament of Champions last week as well as Hideki Matsuyama, and Webb Simpson to name a few.
This should be a great day of action that you won’t want to miss, here’s everything you need to know to follow the action today, including Featured Groups & Holes.
ESPN+ will have exclusive coverage in the mornings and will also have coverage in the afternoons. You can follow all the action here with expanded and extended coverage for PGA Tour Live. Click for more details.
Friday, January 14:
Marquee Groups: 7:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
Saturday, January 15:
Marquee Groups: 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
Sunday, January 16:
Marquee Groups: 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
PGA Tour Odds and Betting Lines
PGA Tour odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds last updated Thursday at 12:00 p.m. ET.
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Cameron Smith will look to keep his lead in the third round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Saturday morning from Kapalua.
Cameron Smith will look to keep his lead in the third round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Saturday from the beautiful Plantation Course at Kapalua. He is sitting at 9-under going into the weekend only two shots ahead of Daniel Berger and Jon Rahm, who are hot on his heels at -7.
This should be a great day of action that you won’t want to miss, here’s everything you need to know to follow the action today, including Featured Groups & Holes.
ESPN+ will have exclusive coverage in the mornings and will also have coverage in the afternoons. You can follow all the action here with expanded and extended coverage for PGA Tour Live. Click for more details.
Saturday, January 8:
Marquee Groups: 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
Sunday, January 9:
Marquee Groups: 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
PGA Tour Odds and Betting Lines
PGA Tour odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds last updated Thursday at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Cameron Smith (+180)
Jon Rahm (+320)
Daniel Berger (+650)
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