The Florida Swing starts this week at PGA National, and with it begins full-time an entirely new era in golf broadcasting.
NBC Sports takes over the coverage of the PGA Tour for the next six weeks until the Masters, but the entire broadcast team producer Tommy Roy deploys at this week’s Cognizant Classic at the Palm Beaches will be using the same equipment that CBS producer Sellers Shy and his crew worked with during the last three California stops on the West Coast Swing.
And all of that equipment – from the production trucks, catering and porta potties in the TV compound to the miles of fiber cables, microphones and cameras across the course – is owned by the PGA Tour as part of its most recent broadcast-rights agreement with the primary networks that cover the tour.
The PGA Tour fleet of custom-built broadcast trucks was originally deployed in January at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego. Among the features of the nine new trucks are 90 total seats for production staff, 72 wired cameras, 120 on-course microphones and 230 handheld radios that are shared to produce seven live shows in 1080p HDR or higher, including the network broadcast and PGA Tour Live streams.
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