Jim Nantz will lead once again the show for CBS Sports at PGA Tour in 2025.
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Main manufacturer of Golf CBS Shy sellers spends most of his life as a happy mediator.
On his left shoulder is the golf TV, in general. Messengers, leaders, tournaments and players, each of whom looks at Shy to fight the overwhelming challenge of setting golf on television with precision, care and ash.
And over his right shoulder? Well, it is you – the audience of the viewer – who assign the SHY responsibility to display golf television in a way that feels very intentional and quite easy at the same time.
Shameful and his NBC Tommy Roy counterpart They sit at the center of this non -sacred (and sometimes opposed) diagram, two middle -aged men who are expected to operate with the boundless energy of professional marathonists. Yes, they are armed with a small army of other television professionals to keep trains in time, but no, this is not a cure.
The best, and sometimes onlyThe weapon at their disposal happens to be the hardest achievement of television: NEW. If the product is improving, or at least changing, it is easier for observers and those who see to feel like they are getting what they need. But how can you change a product that has already passed 60 strange repetitions with a healthy but stagnant budget? This is the question I asked Shy while calling for CBS press for opening the season earlier this week.
CBS broadcasting returns to Golf again on Friday at Farmers Insurance Open, Shy’s fourth campaign as the main producer since taking on the role of his fought ancestor, Lance Barrow. Innovation has been at the center of its manufacturing ethics, leading to experiments that the main golf television pillars have been made as a continuous chart of executives. But what is planning for 2025? Here are 7 changes that you can expect to see throughout the season.
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The biggest change in CBS television broadcasts in 2025 actually came in May ’24, when David Berson followed old CBS Sports leader Sean McMmanus at the top of the network. Berson, a lifelong CBS prisoner who came from ESPN to serve as McMmanus’s number 2 enters his first full season of golf coverage in a time of riots in the PGA tour, which lost almost one fifth of his viewers audience in 2024. On the morning we talked, Berson spoke in full in support of Justin Thomas’s letter to PGA Tour’s membership demanding, inter alia, expanding access to broadcasters.
“We liked what we read” person told Golf.com. “We are his worshipers. We’ve put pressure on her for a long time. We like that JT is ready to put his neck there and take a leading position. ”
2. Expanding the drone tracker
A major change that arrived in the middle of the 2024 season were the “drone trackers”, a visual expansion that gave CBS the opportunity to display the tracers of the camera in the camera’s moving views. Those trackers were familiar with fans, who enjoyed the three -dimensional view on the player’s line, corner and hit. They will be expanded in 2025 both in the presence and execution, with a second drone that will be specially set for tracking and tracking data throughout the west coast.
“What we are able to do now – to have drones in motion that traces golf balls – we will be able to show some of the data that may come out of that system,” Shy said. “It’s more than the ball tracking there. There are leaders that we can transmit from the drone, there is historical information on full pages that we can get out of the drone. “
3. Camera with crane
Another great addition to the West Coast Swing will be a “crane camera” located on the 14th hole side in Pebble Beach, giving viewers a “tracking in the entrance” on the balls of Maku as they arrive at free road. The crane will be located about 80 meters in the air, giving fans another scenic angle in Pebble Beach’s iconic topography.
4. SUPREMENT SUPERMACY
CBS and NBC alternate PGA Tour schedules every season, but repetition of CBS schedule for 2025 will have a major impact on tour signature events. In total, CBS will cover sixout of the eight signature events in ’25. NBC, on the other hand, will take all three events of the FedEx Cup Playoff and two separate siggies (Sentry and Arnold Palmer Invitational).
5. A new lpga enlargement
CBS will broadcast four LPGA events in 2025, from three to 2024. The new CBS event for ’25 will be Mishericas and Michelle Wie West Open, which will get a two-hour window in CBS from 1- 3 Afternoon et Sunday. May 11.
6. Some key returns
Ok, not exactly changesBut some important updates returning to CBS covering in ’25: interview EC and Speak; Expanding Trackman’s “high” tracers, which offer a unique favorable point after firing; Falcon 360 “diving camera; And Golftec Optimotion Analysis Technology, which was a well-known addition to Trevor Immelman, Frank Nobloo and Ian Baker-Finch in ’24.
7. Adjustments in the air
CBS will return the same staff to the broadcast since 24, but with some key updates. The legendary “Play-By-Play” presenter Jim Nantz will enter his 40th Golf broadcast season in ’25, while Trevor Immelman will enter the cabin in addition to his duties as the new world official president of golf, or owr.
James Colgan
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James Colan is a news editor and features in Golf, writing stories about the website and magazine. He manages Hot Mic, Golf’s media vertical, and uses his experience on camera across brand platforms. Before joining Golf, James graduated from the University of Syracuse, during which time he was a caddy (and smart) scholarship in Long Island, where he is. He can be reached on James.colgan@golf.com.
