Golf Channel Goes HD

ORLANDO, January 9: Golf
Channel's newly launched HD service has stocked its schedule with more than
2,100 hours of tournament coverage, including the 2009 PGA Tour, original
programming and news.

The tournament season
kicks off Thursday with the exclusive telecast of the Mercedes-Benz
Championship, airing for the first time in high definition. The network will
also feature the PGA Tour's Sony Open in Hawaii, the Champions Tour's
Mitsubishi Electric Championship and the LPGA Tour's SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

Golf Channel HD and its
standard-definition counterpart will simulcast more than 100 tournaments in
2009. Aside from the live golfing action, Golf Channel will feature more than
125 original hours of news in HD. Live From will feature coverage from golf's major events,
such as the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA Championship. A host of original
programming will also air on the HD service, including series like Hank
Haney's Project Barkley (working
title).

"Golf benefits from
HD more than almost any sport," said Golf Channel's president, Page
Thompson. "For the first time, Golf Channel HD viewers will be able to
fully appreciate the stunning beauty of Hawaiian courses like at Kapalua and
Turtle Bay or at Scotland's Loch Lomond. With the incredible picture quality
and wider screens, HD viewers will be able to immerse themselves more fully in
the strategy of the game, now seeing the full scope of the rolling terrain and
the subtle contours of the greens that are so difficult to perceive in standard
definition."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski