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Audience Plummets 80% As British Open Switches To Sky Sports
- The Guardian, Monday, July 18, 2016 8:42 AM
Critics of the Open’s move away from live BBC television coverage have been given impetus after the peak audience for the first day of the championship dropped by almost 80%. Sky Sports has assumed primary UK broadcasting rights for the first time at this, the 145th, Open, with the BBC reduced to highlights status. The R&A was castigated for the television switch.
