R&A Announce Online Streaming of Golf’s Open Championship
July 7, 2011
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buy Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; color: #333333″>The Royal & Ancient Golf Club (R&A) has announced that, in 2011, The Open Championship will showcase ‘@TheOpen LIVE’, a live online channel that will broadcast from Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 July.
The channel will be streamed live on Opengolf.com, Facebook and LiveStream.com, and on The Open’s iPhone and Android apps. The channel will give viewers the chance to instantly interact with presenters and guests, as they go behind the scenes of golf’s oldest Major.
Up to five hours of live coverage will be broadcast daily, bringing viewers the unique atmosphere of The Open wherever they are in the world, as well as coverage of post-round press conferences, exclusive interviews and highlights of play.
R&A Chief Executive, Peter Dawson, said: “@TheOpen LIVE is an exciting new development in the way we present the Championship. Although coverage of the golf is broadcast all over the world, we have never previously provided viewers with an intimate experience of the unique atmosphere that The Open creates for spectators. With its behind-the-scenes access and interaction with fans, this live channel will do that.”
The Open Championship App is available on iPhone and, for the first time, Android handsets. The App will broadcast @TheOpen LIVE, as well as offering live coverage from the 14th, 15th and 16th holes, video highlights, access to Radio Opengolf and news stories, plus real-time scoring updates and bulletins reporting on the action. The App will be available from iTunes and the Android Marketplace in the coming days.
The award-winning Opengolf.com will be accompanied by ‘Score Centre+’: A live desktop console, providing fans of The Open with information about the current venue, up-to-date news and video coverage of the build up to the four Championship days in July.
