This weekend marks the first major step in a new era of PGA TOUR golf production: nine state-of-the-art production trucks, built by NEP Group, Inc., will be onsite for CBS Sports, Golf Channel, and PGA TOUR LIVE for the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego. The trucks provide a consistent and stable production hub for PGA TOUR broadcast partners CBS/Paramount+, NBC/Golf Channel/Peacock, and ESPN+.
The fleet will serve as production hub for seven live shows: the network broadcast, four PGA TOUR Live streams on ESPN+, SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio, and two live streams for IMG Arena, the tour’s official scoring-data distributor for betting operators.
With an eye toward the future, the TOUR and its media partners worked together on a solution that combines all technical resources into a singular fleet, allowing better sharing of resources — such as tee-box cameras or green-side microphones — while also equipping all broadcasts with the absolute latest in technology.
In addition to serving as the technical core for production of the seven live shows, the fleet will house the PGA TOUR Rules Review team, which will work with Hawkeye replay systems.
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