{"id":140301,"date":"2025-08-12T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:12:10","slug":"versant-keeps-golf-links-after-nbcu-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140301\/","title":{"rendered":"Versant Keeps Golf Links After NBCU Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe U.S. Golf Association will help the new media company known as Versant<\/a> keep swinging into sports after it is spun off from NBCUniversal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0USA<\/a> Network and Golf Channel<\/a> will get rights to present live coverage of 11 USGA championships through 2032 \u2014 including the U.S. Open and U.S. Women\u2019s Open \u2014 featuring live event and studio coverage of the championships across the networks struck under a new deal that is unveiled at the same time as a USGA renewal with NBCU.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder terms of the new deal, USA will present about 35 hours of live U.S. Open and U.S. Women\u2019s Open coverage each year. Golf Channel will carry expanded live coverage of the USGA championships, serving as the exclusive home of the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur, U.S. Junior Amateur., U.S. Girls\u2019 Junior., U.S. Senior Women\u2019s Open, U.S. Adaptive Open, Walker Cup, and Curtis Cup.<\/p>\n

\n\tNBCUniversal\u2019s new rights deal with the USGA also lasts through 2032, with the NBC broadcast network continuing to serve as the exclusive broadcast home of the U.S. Open, U.S. Women\u2019s Open, and U.S. Senior Open.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Versant spin off is expected to take place between late 2025 and early 2026. NBCU initially won the USGA rights in 2020 after the golf group broke up with Fox Sports,<\/a> which was unable to come up with hours for telecasts after schedule shifts prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud of the partnership we\u2019ve built over the years with NBCU and Versant, and we\u2019re equally excited to continue building on that legacy through our shared passion and dedication \u2013 alongside people we\u2019re proud to call our friends,\u201d said USGA CEO\u00a0Mike Whan, in a prepared statement. \u201cThe value NBCU and Versant place on the USGA brand is evident, and this agreement enables the USGA to further advance our mission to positively impact the game, while providing the most expansive coverage and broadest reach to showcase USGA championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pact shows Versant working to maintain sports contracts its networks have held for years. USA is still home to some WWE broadcasts, and both USA and CNBC have served as home to dozens of hours of Olympics contests.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new elements of the agreement will begin in 2027 following the conclusion of the current agreement in 2026. USA Network began its coverage of the USGA championships in 2022 with the U.S. Open and U.S. Women\u2019s Open. Meanwhile, Golf Channel first presented live coverage of the USGA championships in 1995 \u2014 the year it launched as the first single-sport cable network in television history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Golf Association will help the new media company known as Versant keep swinging into sports after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,81333,62,67,132,68,2969,59639],"class_list":{"0":"post-140301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-golf-channel","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa","15":"tag-versant"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017150906449716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}