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Stathakes was once viewed as
candidate to run Golf Channel
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Golf Channel Senior VP/Production, Programming & Operations
TOM STATHAKES has left the network to “serve as a consultant to NBC Sports Group, Golf Channel’s parent company,” according to Martin Kaufmann of GOLFWEEK. Shathakes at one time “was viewed as a candidate to run Golf Channel, but lost out to former NBC executive
MIKE MCCARLEY, who was appointed as the channel’s president in February 2011.” Much of Stathakes’ duties “will be filled by
TOM KNAPP,” who had been Golf Channel’s VP/Strategic Partnerships before leaving in '10 to become XOS Digital Media President & GM. Knapp returns to Golf Channel as Senior VP/Programming. Golf Channel also “apparently is close to naming a new” Senior VP/Production, but the “identity of that person is not yet known.” Golf Channel promoted
WILL MCINTOSH to Senior VP/Business Development & Strategy for GolfNow, Golf Channel’s “tee-time service.” The channel also named LPGA Business Development Dir
ANDREA STARKEY VP/Strategic Partnerships, reporting to Knapp. In addition, the net named Fox Sports Media Group Fuel TV VP/New Media & Int’l Development
GENE PAO VP/Marketing, reporting to Senior VP/Marketing
REGINA O’BRIEN. Golf Channel VP/Original Productions & Development
KEITH ALLO “will be responsible for expanded production of new shows domestically and internationally” (
GOLFWEEK.com, 1/4).
