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Just read the November 2009 article by David Feherty in Golf Magazine about the CBS crew breaking down and setting up the communications at an event. David provides a great behind the scenes account of how the "smellies" tear down the set up after a tournament, pack it up and then set it up again the for the next tournament.
However, we would take issue with one of his statements:
Other teams work on the fiber optic cable, which as I found out, has to be treated differently. There is no bending, knot-tying or knitting with this stuff, as you can it shatter it easily and annoy the production manager, who is the person who can have you assigned to the dumper crew, or worse still, McCord's tower next week.
Fiber optic cable is actually quite durable, weighs much less than copper, can send more data through the system and as such is much easier to pack up after a tournament.
We thank David for highlighting the efforts of the crews that set up at each tournament. To those of us in broadcast production they are the real heroes.
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