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Coverage begins at 3:30p.m. on CBS, Golf Channel Live from the Masters 12:30p.m. Radio is on Westwood One, Sirius-XM and broadband is CBSSports.com and Masters.com
The script could not have been written any better for CBS. You have Tiger Woods in the hunt on Saturday afternoon at Augusta.
ESPN has set ratings records with over 5 million viewers on cable each day of their coverage both Thursday and Friday. Online both Masters.com and CBSSports.com have hit the million mark in people visiting the sites.
The biggest single day television audience ever, more than 20 million viewers, for a golf tournament, 14 percent of all TV households watched as Woods won his first green jacket at the 1997 Masters, according to Nielsen. Four years later, when Woods won again, the Masters won a 13 percent household rating.
I think that CBS is looking at maybe as high as 25 to 28 million viewers on Saturday and if Woods is still in a fight for the Green Jacket on Sunday the number could be 30 million viewers.
This is the 55 year that CBS has covered the Masters and it has become the networks signature event. The crew at CBS has always been outstanding at Augusta and I am sure this weekend will be no different.
Jim Nantz, Nick Faldo, Peter Oosterhuis, Verne Lundquist, David Feherty Bill Macatee, Peter Kostis and Ian-Baker Finch
will head up the network coverage team.
