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candidate to run Golf Channel |
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).
