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GolfTalk Live
GolfTalk Live is the award-winning golf radio show that debuted in March of 2006 on Philadelphia’s Newstalk 990 a.m. WNTP. From its inception, GolfTalk Live has provided area golfers with all the latest golf destination packages, instruction, local golf stories and news from around the PGA, including interviews with people from all facets of the golf world.
Host Tony Leodora provides the listener with an informative and entertaining commentary that could only come from years of experience and love for the game of golf. Alongside him each week are different on-site golf experts who serve as co-hosts to provide many different perspectives on current events and the economics of the game. This format and style won GolfTalk Live recognition as the “Number One Golf Show in America” from the prestigious International Network of Golf.
One of GolfTalk Live’s strongest qualities is that it can come to you live from anywhere in the Tri-State area – or anywhere in the country, your favorite places to play and stay. In 2009, GolfTalk Live was the only radio show to broadcast right in front of the pro-shop at Saucon Valley CC for the LPGA U.S. Women’s Open. GolfTalk Live was also on-site for the McDonald’s LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock as well as Jim Furyk’s Excelon Invitational.
Check out GolfTalk Live every Saturday morning from 7-8 a.m. live on-air and online on 990 a.m. WNTP and at www.wntp.com. If you happen to miss the show, you can listen any time on the Listen page of this website.
TL Golf Services
GolfTalk
Live is a division of TL Golf Services, a golf-specific public relations, marketing and event management company.
It has a variety of services for organizations and individuals including:
- Event creation and management
- Media coordination and relations
- Tournament promotion, planning and staffing
- Representation at consumer trade and golf shows
- Writing Feature Stories and placement in golf publications
- Networking and establishing contacts within the golf industry
- Press Releases, Media Kits and Press Conference Assistance
TL Golf Services was founded in 1998 for the express purpose of providing a networking and communication vehicle for clients within the golf industry.
Over the years our clientele has included businesses from every aspect of the golf industry - equipment companies, television shows, private country clubs, public golf courses, apparel companies, golf course architects and golf tournaments.
Contact TL Golf Services to see how we can help you or your organization at 610-279-9220
GolfTalk Bios
Tony Leodora has had a well-rounded 30-year career in the media. Tony has been:
- Associate Publisher and Editor of GolfStyles Philadelphia Magazine
- an award-winning writer,
- sports editor of a daily newspaper,
- editor of two national golf magazines
- and a veteran of both radio and television.
Tony's knowledge of golf is recognized nationally as evidenced by his selection to the International Network of Golf Advisory Board, Golf Writers Association of America Championship Committee and Golfweek's Top 100 ratings panel.
Press Releases
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GolfTalk Live Radio Show
Receives ING Outstanding Achievement Award.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (February 1, 2010) – For the third time in the last four years, the GolfTalk Live radio show has been honored as one of the top golf radio shows in America by the International Network of Golf. At the annual Media Awards presentation by the International Network of Golf during the recent PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, GolfTalk Live received the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award in the radio category.
GolfTalk Live received similar awards in 2006 and 2007, while being named the No. 1 Golf Radio Show in America in 2008.
In addition, show host Tony Leodora won another Outstanding Achievement Award for Opinion Column in the writing category. His column, “The Cheesesteak Open”, a tongue-in-cheek humorous piece about how Philadelphia should host its own PGA Tour event with sponsorship money coming from the city-wide sale of cheesesteaks, appeared in the GolfStyles Philadelphia magazine and in the Blog section of the radio show website, www.golftalklive.net.
The two awards single out Leodora as the only media member to win an award in two different categories of the ING Media Awards – radio and writing.
“The awards are special because it allows me to share the recognition with all of the talented people who go into making the radio show a success,” commented Leodora. “In a span of four years, the show has grown incredibly in its reach and listener loyalty. We have proven that golf on the radio can be a winner, if presented in the proper format.”
GolfTalk Live airs 52 weeks a year from 7 to 8 a.m. each Saturday on WNTP 990-AM and on www.wntp.com. It also can be heard any time during the week after the show airs, by going to the website, www.golftalklive.net.
For more information about the GolfTalk Live radio show, contact TL Golf Services at 610-279-9220.
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Inside Golf Television Show Selects TL Golf Services
To Handle All Marketing and Public Relations.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (November 30, 2009) – Inside Golf, the award-winning television show, has selected TL Golf Services to handle all of its marketing and public relations efforts, it was announced today. The announcement came from Ken Selinger, owner of CCI Video, the company that produces the Inside Golf show.
Inside Golf is in its 12th year on the air on Comcast SportsNet in Philadelphia and has been recognized as the leading golf and lifestyle television show in the Mid-Atlantic region. TL Golf Services served in a similar marketing and public relations capacity with the show from 1999 to 2006.
“After 12 years we decided that it was time to give Inside Golf a new surge of energy,” explained Selinger, who developed the Inside Golf concept years ago in connection with the Philadelphia Section PGA. “TL Golf Services knows the show better than anyone and they will be able to get the word out about some of the changes and new directions we are implementing.”
Inside Golf covers every facet of the game of golf – from competition, to instruction, to the personalities and the lifestyle. In the past, it has traveled much of the eastern half of the country in its quest to serve the golfer of the Mid-Atlantic region.
“We have always had a love of the Inside Golf show,” said Tony Leodora, president of TL Golf Services. “We are no different from the avid golfers of the region. We all like to discover new courses to play and gain first-hand knowledge of new golf resorts. If we can’t do it personally, at least we can do it vicariously through Inside Golf.”
The Inside Golf television show airs four times a week on Comcast SportsNet – 5:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Sundays, 4:30 p.m. on Mondays and 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The show also can be seen anytime by using the On Demand feature on Comcast digital cable.
For more information or photos, contact TL Golf Services at 610-279-9220
GolfTalk Live Photos
Live Remote at Blue Bell Country Club, May 23, 2009
From Left to Right: Tony Leodora, Bill Beisel and Dr. Mike Fidanza (Penn State School of Agronomy).
Tony Interviewing Arnold Palmer
TaylorMade sales representative Tom Carroll (second from left) gets together with some of his favorite Irish golf professionals at the TaylorMade Demo Day on St. Patrick's Day at Woodcrest CC. The professionals, left to right are Dick Smith, Rich Smith, Jr., and Jim Dunigan.
Tony Interviewing Gary Player in Skippack, PA
Radio Award Winner
Best Golf Radio Show in America, by the prestigious International Network of Golf
Photo's from left to right:
GolfTalk Live Host Tony Leodora with
...Jim Phillips "The Traveling Golfer" ... Russ Whitnah, WNTP
General Manager ... John Connor, Superintendent of Plymouth CC
(standing) & Tony Gustatitas, Superintendent of Whitemarsh
Valley CC (seated).
Remote Locations
Tony Leodora with Guests - Remote Broadcasting Golf Radio Show
Photos of GolfTalk Live Host Tony Leodora with
Scott Dunn at Twisted Dunne. (left)
Gary Shea & Harry Bittner at ShoreGate Golf Club. (middle)
Chuck Caparo from Plymouth Country Club. (right)
Events and Misc. Photos
Photos from left to right:
GolfTalk Live Host Tony Leodora presenting Montgomery County
Amateur trophies to
...Jerry Owens, ... John Sorber & ... James Braunsberg
In addition to the regularly scheduled airing of GolfTalk Live, the show also can be heard any time during the week by going to the Listen Page of this website, www.golftalklive.net.
For more information about the GolfTalk Live radio show, contact TL Golf Services at 610-279-9220.
