On paper, Mechem, a Yale - educated lawyer with 24 years of experience in the television business, appears to be exactly what the LPGA needs — someone who can persuade corporate sponsors and network executives to give women's golf
a bigger slice of the action that is now dominated by the PGA and Senior PGA tours.
This doesn't just fall foul
of the technicalities
of net neutrality, but
of the core principle itself — generally, while operators claim they want to improve their customers» experience, they also want to use their gatekeeper role to demand a
slice of the
action from the
big ad networks.