Mike McCarley
Mike McCarley is an American broadcasting executive and the president of Golf Channel, a post he assumed in February 2011 after more than a decade with NBC. He is a protégé of former NBC Sports & Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol. McCarley was named one of Sports Business Journal's "40 under 40" in 2009, 2010, and 2013. With his third placement among this elite class, McCarley earned recognition as a member of the “40 Under 40” Hall of Fame Class of 2013.
In 2012, he was named Sports Network Executive of the Year by Cynopsis Sports.
Golf Channel
Golf Channel came under the umbrella of NBC Universal when its owner, Comcast, acquired control of NBCU on January 28, 2011. On February 2, NBC Sports Group announced that McCarley would take the reins as Golf Channel president, along with several other leadership changes in their broadcasting and web-based assets. Ebersol combined these assets to increase viewership, and McCarley said his mandate was to incorporate more of the NBC "sports sensibility" into Golf Channel's programming.