Masters make major TV coverage change at Augusta National for 2025

Augusta National Golf Club announced that much sum volition beryllium added to the 2025 Masters for the 3rd and last rounds, with an further 2 hours of sum disposable connected Paramount+

The Masters is acceptable for a broadcast shake-up erstwhile it swings backmost into enactment astatine Augusta National adjacent year, with the Augusta National Golf Club announcing a important summation successful TV sum for the iconic tournament.

Viewers volition beryllium treated to an other 5 hours of enactment from the 3rd and last rounds of The 2025 Masters. The accepted CBS slot, which typically runs from 3-7 p.m. ET, volition present footwear disconnected an hr earlier astatine 2 p.m. - aligning with Sunday's 2-7 p.m. schedule.

For those consenting to ammunition retired other wealth for a Paramount+ subscription, 2 further hours of sum volition beryllium disposable from 12-2 p. m. ET connected some Saturday and Sunday.

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“The Masters Tournament has had the large luck of enjoying an bonzer narration with CBS Sports for astir 70 years,” Augusta National Golf Club and Masters president Fred Ridley said. “Alongside our friends astatine the network, we are pleased to widen the Tournament’s play sum and yet present much unrecorded play for Masters fans.”

While galore play enthusiasts are implicit the satellite astir the imaginable of much Masters coverage, immoderate are little than thrilled astir the request to subscribe to Paramount+ for the other broadcast. Out of the full 14 hours of broadcast for the 3rd and last rounds, 4 hours volition present beryllium tucked down the Paramount+ paywall.

Several play fans expressed their discontent connected societal media. "I similar the other CBS hr connected Saturday, but wherefore can't it each beryllium connected CBS connected Saturday and Sunday? Millions volition watch! " 1 X idiosyncratic wrote, with different adding: "More dumb additions that are not necessary. Why wage for this elite tourney erstwhile it has been escaped forever?"

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A 3rd added: "NEVER EVER going to wage for Paramount + to ticker golf. Bad capable that I fundamentally support a steaming work to support the Golf Channel."

This isn't the archetypal clip that play sum has gone down a paywall. NBC moved a sizable magnitude of its broadcast for the U.S. Open to Peacock, including hours of sum exclusively disposable connected the streaming service. Peacock has additionally provided exclusive sum of respective PGA Tour events that are besides broadcast connected ESPN+.

Golf isn't the lone athletics that's been heavy impacted by the streaming work craze. Earlier this month, the NFL's archetypal crippled successful Brazil betwixt the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles was shown exclusively connected Peacock, drafting astir 14.2 cardinal watchers.

The beardown viewership marked the second-highest watched unrecorded lawsuit streamed by the media institution - trailing lone past season's AFC Wild Card crippled successful which the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Miami Dolphins, 26-7. In December, 2 NFL games scheduled for Christmas Day volition beryllium exclusively broadcast connected Netflix.

The much-anticipated bout betwixt Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, meanwhile, volition beryllium streamed connected the aforesaid level a period earlier.