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Golf Curiosity – Is it that popular? [1]

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Date: 2026-05-10  

While checking to see what’s on TV today, I ran across the above on our local broadcast TV schedule.

5 hours on Fox local affiliate, South Florida market (Miami-Ft. Lauderdale) of coverage of LIV Golf tournament, which by all accounts is going to be not well attended, and 5 hours of coverage is not going to be able to disguise that.

One wonders, if said tournament was not at a Trump property, whether Fox would have provided 5 hours of time, or only 2 or 3. Or none.

But of course, that probably depends on who is paying.

One also wonders if Fox sold/expected to sell huge amounts of advertising time during those hours because of course the event would be such a hugely watched event OR if LIV, backed by the Saudis, bought the time outright and hoped to get their money back by selling ads themselves, or perhaps thought they could get value for their investment in some other way.

I’d be curious to see how many advertisers there are during that 5-hour time slot and what companies might be choosing to advertise.

But alas, I can’t. Aside from not having a death wish, I have a rehearsal today.

However, if anyone wants to tune in for part of the extravaganza, jot down your notes about the coverage and the commercial sponsor aspects, we’d all love to hear from you.

But, don’t ruin your Mother’s Day. It’s just really not that important.

But it is curious.

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