When Jim Nantz returns to the task of presenting live golf this weekend, he knows the job will feel nothing like the one he’s done for decades. Viewers typically see Nantz seated alongside an…
, chairman of CBS Sports, has supervised Super Bowl broadcasts and college basketball championships. But he will be as enmeshed in this week’s golf games as he has been in those major sports milestones. “This is the most complex production, probably, I have ever been involved in,” says McManus, who has been working in TV sports since 1977. His team has spent two months trying to figure out how to produce the broadcasts.
A round on the links, however, is already a tough proposition for TV networks. Golfers often demand near-silence so they can concentrate. And there is usually significant time lapse from one player’s time on an individual hole and the next. “Golf is difficult to produce to begin with,” said McManus.
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