Three More Distributors Join Golf Channel's 3D Hawaiian Tourney Telecasts
With Addition Of RCN, Service Electric Co., Service Electric Cable, 16 Carriers On Course For Enhanced Sony Open Coverage
Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 1/14/2011 3:09:05 PM
Like a player making a move on the back nine, Golf Channel has added three more distributors for its 3D coverage of the Sony Open in Hawaii this weekend.
RCN, Service Electric Co. and Service Electric Cable TV are the latest carriers for Golf's 3D coverage, scheduled Jan. 15 and 16 from the Waialae Country Club in Oahu, bringing its roster to 16, 10 in the U.S. and six in Canada.
In addition to the trio listed above, Golf's other affiliates for its initial drive into the 3D course at presstime: Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, DirecTV, Cox Communications, parent Comcast, Armstrong Cable TV, Blue Ridge Communications, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Bell, Telus, Eastlink and Videotron.
Working in conjunction with Comcast, production company NEP and Sony, Golf Channel will provide 16 hours of 3D coverage, eight live, on Jan. 15-16 from the Waialae Country Club in Oahu.
The production -- presenting views from Green No. 2 and the third and fourth holes and Green No. 16 and holes 17 and 18 -- will employ six Element Technica rigs equipped with Sony 3D cameras.
Golf's 3D game plan: live coverage from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. (ET) on Jan. 15, a two-hour encore, with a return to live action from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., and then another re-air.
The network will deliver a similar eight-hour schedule on Sunday, with tee time for the first live, two-hour window moving up a half hour to 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Play-by-play man Rich Lerner, analyst Curt Byrum and course-reporter Steve Sands are set to call the 3D action for Golf, which also will provide HD coverage of all four rounds of the tourney.
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