Newly-joined NBC and Sky to launch joint golf coverage at Players

NEW YORK: NBC Sports Group and Sky Sports are set to announce on Monday that they are planning the most extensive television coverage ever of the Players Championship golf tournament, their biggest collaborative foray on sports coverage since Comcast Corp took over Sky last fall.

Among other joint programming the channels are set to launch later on Monday, Sky will air nearly 25 hours of live simulcast coverage of"Golf Central Live," from this week's tournament. The two networks first began talking about how they could make sports coverage more efficient and collaborative at the Ryder Cup in September.Both companies decided to focus first on golf and the English Premier League,"two sports in which we had a shared significant investment," McCarley said.

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