This year's The Players Championship will offer the most expansive global programming in the history of the event. The PGA Tour event will feature more than 200 hours of digital coverage complementing 22 hours of live, limited-interruption telecasts from Golf Channel, NBC Sports, Sky Sports and dozens of broadcast partners around the world. U.S. TV coverage will include NBC Sports and Golf Channel providing a total of 22 hours of live coverage with limited commercial interruption. Golf Channel will air six hours of live golf on Thursday and Friday, and NBC Sports will present five hours of coverage on Saturday and Sunday. Int'l coverage of The Players in '18 will be broadcast to over 1 billion households throughout 226 countries and territories in 23 languages. Sky Sports (U.K. and Ireland) and NHK (Japan) will be on site at The Players to produce live telecasts. In addition, the PGA Tour's Int'l Broadcast Village will be the home of C-More (Sweden), Movistar (Spain), ESPN (Latin America), Canal+ (France) and Sky Sport (Germany) to provide live commentary. Other partners on site include: iQiyi (China), Golf Channel (China), SBS (South Korea), Golf Network (Japan), Eurosport (Norway), TSN (Canada), Fox Sports (Australia) and DAZN (Canada). PGA Tour Live, the tour's global OTT video service, will provide live streaming coverage not only on competition days but also from events leading up to the first round. The PGA Tour will team up with Facebook to stream more than 30 hours of live coverage from Wednesday through Sunday on Facebook Watch. PGA Tour AR, an augmented reality app, will bring live AR coverage of the tournament to life on fans' iPhones or iPads. The Players will feature more than 30 hours of VR coverage and will expand from cameras covering only the 17th hole last year to eight cameras spread over the 12th and 17th holes (PGA).
