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Post by Skaggs on Jul 27, 2005 21:37:18 GMT -5
The 2005 PGA Championship will be played at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J and shown in HD.
Television schedule:
Thursday, Aug. 11: TNT: 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. CBS: 12:37 a.m. - 1:07 a.m.
Friday, Aug. 12: TNT: 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. CBS: 12:37 a.m. - 1:07 a.m.
Saturday, Aug. 13: TNT: 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CBS: 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 14: TNT: 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CBS: 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Post by Skaggs on Aug 1, 2005 15:52:51 GMT -5
From the CBS website: CBS Sports to broadcast 2005 PGA Championship in HDTV July 27, 2005
CBS Sports' High Definition Coverage of PGA Championship to Include 5.1 Digital Surround Sound
CBS Sports will broadcast the PGA Championship in HDTV for the second consecutive year with 18 hole-coverage of the third and final rounds of the 2005 PGA Championship in HDTV on Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday, Aug. 14 (2:00-7:00 PM, ET; both days), live from Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.
CBS Sports' PGA Championship HDTV broadcasts will feature the highest definition television format -- 1080 lines of picture resolution -- and 5.1 digital surround sound. The unified productions for the Standard Definition and HD telecasts will feature the same announcers, camera angles, replays and graphics.
CBS Sports is the industry leader in HDTV broadcasts. In the 2005-06 television season, CBS Sports will broadcast 32 weekends of premiere event sports programming in high definition. Historically, CBS Sports' coverage of the 2000 MastersĀ® was the first golf tournament ever presented live in HDTV on network television. CBS Sports also presented the first HDTV broadcast of a PGA TOUR event at the 2001 Sony Open. For the last six years, CBS has aired HD productions of the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four and Championship Games, the MastersĀ® Tournament, SEC college football and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships.
CBS also broadcast the 2001 and 2004 Super Bowls and all of the 2003-05 AFC Playoffs in HDTV, in addition to its HD coverage of selected regular-season NFL games in the 2003 and 2004 seasons. CBS Sports was responsible for the first ever broadcast of a professional football game in high definition when the Buffalo Bills faced the New York Jets live on Sunday, November 8, 1998. The game was the first of four high definition games presented by CBS Sports during the 1998 season.
During the 2005-06 television season, CBS will broadcast an average of 30 hours per week of High Definition programming, more than any other broadcast network, and more original HD programming per week than any other network, broadcast or cable or satellite. One hundred and ninety-one of CBS's owned and affiliated stations are currently broadcasting in digital, covering approximately 99 percent of the nation.
CBS Television is comprised of the CBS Television Network -- with over 200 owned and affiliated stations reaching virtually every television home in the United States; the Network's programming arms CBS Entertainment, CBS News and CBS Sports; and CBS Enterprises, a global leader in distribution.
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