"The Golf Channel is a stronger brand, but it could benefit from a link to NBC and its on-air talent."

The New York Times' Richard Sandomir contemplates the role Dick Ebersol might play in the new GE-Universal-NBC-Comcast (GUNC?) entity, and suggests that Comcast properties like Golf Channel can only benefit from Ebersol's touch (assuming he stays on past 2012, and assuming they can lock in the Big Break for the next fifty years).

Sandomir also notes a possible Olympic-Golf Channel tie in--assuming ESPN doesn't outbid for the 2016 games. Left unsaid is the possibility of more USGA Championship content going to The Golf Channel someday.