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Article: GOLF CHANNEL IN FULL SWING.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Byline: TOM HOFFARTH MEDIA
PALM DESERT - In the Golf Channel's makeshift production compound for its coverage of this week's Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, the network that wants to be seen by millions is trying to go incognito.
A half-dozen Peterbilt trucks parked every which way surround portable office trailers linked together by hundreds of cable wires. They are all trying to lay low, wedged into a barren valley area behind the elevated 14th green and the hill where the 17th tee sits at the Arnold Palmer freshly-designed Classic Course, hopefully out of the spectators' and players' line of sight.
Only a huge crane with a radio frequency antenna ...