How CBS plans to handle Tiger Woods’ latest travails during its Masters coverage
"Tiger's a story, obviously, wherever he is," said CBS Sports president and CEO David Berson, "but our job during the tournament itself will be to cover the tournament."
For golf viewers interested in what CBS broadcasters might have to say about Tiger Woods during coverage of the upcoming Masters Tournament, the network position is one of respectful silence and adherence to a tradition over the past 70 years of offering the best production possible of the year’s first men’s major championship. This assumes, of course, that Woods will not be playing in the 90th Masters after his automobile accident and DUI arrest on Friday near his home in Jupiter Island, Fla. The question about Woods’ latest travails was bound to come up Monday during a CBS zoom conference call that included broadcasters Jim Nantz, Trevor Immelman and Dottie Pepper and producer Sellers Shy.
CBS is preparing to broadcast the Masters for the 71st consecutive year, the longest-running sporting event airing on one network. “It's obviously a big topic,” David Berson, president and CEO of CBS Sports, replied when a reporter raised the question of how CBS might handle the subject of Woods. “I first want to just say that thankfully nobody's injured.
That's the most important thing coming out of the news from this past week, and I definitely want to lead there. “As for Tiger playing or not playing or being in Augusta, not being in Augusta, we don't have information and it's not fair to anyone for us to speak about it or to speculate. We just won't do that.
He and his team are going to have to be the ones who speak about it. It's only fair if that's the case. So we hope you'll respect and appreciate that, but we just really don't want to speculate on something.
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